National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation
Winners
The award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize to the producers and director each. The first award in 1989 had a monetary association of ₹ 30,000 to the producers and ₹ 15,000 to the directors.

National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation

Section Title: Winners
Table Section Text: The award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize to the producers and director each. The first award in 1989 had a monetary association of ₹ 30,000 to the producers and ₹ 15,000 to the directors.

List of films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation

Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation	Refs.

1989 (37th)	Bonani	Assamese	Purbanchal Film	Jahnu Barua	For its delicate and nuanced description of a forest official's struggle against mercenary and bureaucratic despoilation of forests.

1990 (38th)	No Award

1991 (39th)	No Award

1992 (40th)	Cheluvi	Kannada	Sadir Media	Girish Karnad	For its direct and effective communication of a threatening problem, deforestation.

1993 (41st)	Devara Kadu	Kannada	Pattabhirami Reddy Productions	Pattabhirami Reddy Tikkavarapu	For presenting the two themes of "Back to Village" and "Preservation of Nature" by an imaginative use of myths and legends.

1994 (42nd)	Nirbachana	Oriya	NFDC Doordarshan	Biplab Ray Chowdhury	For a stunningly controlled and uniquely cinematic metaphor of rural India and impending environment catastrophe shown with compassion and satire.

1995 (43rd)	Rape in the Virgin Forest (Hagramayao Jinahari)	Bodo	Jwngdao Bodosa	Jwngdao Bodosa	For effectively handling the problem of deforestation, through the life and struggle of a tribal community and exposing the real culprits behind this crime.

1996 (44th)	No Award

1997 (45th)	Bhoomi Geetha	Kannada	R. Mahadev Gowda	Kesari Harvoo	For its sincere statement the need for a balanced approach towards environment and tribal cultures that get displaced in the course of development.

1998 (46th)	Malli	Tamil	N'CYP	Santosh Sivan	For its lucid and lyrical depiction of nature and the need to save the environmental assets which have made life on tris earth possible and beautiful.

1999 (47th)	Jalamarmaram	Malayalam	Latha Kurien Rajeev Radhika Suresh Gopi	T. K. Rajeev Kumar	For handling a theme of great concern in the increasingly polluted environs of our industrial towns and cities, through the imaginative touch of a fairly tale.

2000 (48th)	Oru Cheru Punchiri	Malayalam	Jisha John	M. T. Vasudevan Nair	For telling the simple and moving story of an elderly couple and their relationship with the world around them. In depicting the couple's love for the trees and plants in their garden, the film spreads the message of environmental conservation in the broadest sense in a gentle, unobtrusive way.

2001 (49th)	No Award

2002 (50th)	Urumattram	Tamil	Aadhi Bhagavan Talkies	B.Sivakumar	The story revolves around a Grand-father, his son and grand son. The son who is in hurry to migrate to the U.S.

2003 (51st)	Juye Poora Xoon	Assamese	Sanjib Sabhapandit	Sanjib Sabhapandit	For its representation of large-scale migration and the erosion of a way of life by floods and industrialisation.

2004 (52nd)	Devrai	Marathi	Y. N. Oak	Sumitra Bhave Sunil Sukthankar	In this chaotic world, when every body talks about the importance of environment, conservation and preservation but no body cares to learn from the wisdom of myth created by our forefathers and create a space for every mind to realise its potential without judging, discriminating or condemning.

2005 (53rd)	Thutturi	Kannada	Jaimala Ramchandra	P. Sheshadri	For its imaginative portrayal of a group of young children who fight to preserve a healthy urban environment.

2006 (54th)	No Award

2007 (55th)	No Award

2008 (56th)	Jianta Bhoota	Odia	Akshay Kumar Parija	Prashanta Nanda	For sensitive portrayal of exploitation of innocence in the name of development.

2009 (57th)	No Award

2010 (58th)	Bettada Jeeva	Kannada	Basanta Kumar Patil	P. Sheshadri	An old couple steeped in the soil of their environment yearn for the return of their son while nurturing the growth of their young plantation against all odds.

2011 (59th)	No Award

2012 (60th)	Black Forest	Malayalam	Joshy Mathew	Baby Mathew Somatheeram	Set in a tribal backdrop the movie effectively advocates the urgent need for environmental protection. The protagonists in the form of three children make the film all the more acceptable to the impressionable minds!

2013 (61st)	Perariyathavar	Malayalam	Ambalakkara Global Films	Dr. Biju	For telling the story of those nameless, faceless marginalized people through the life of a widowed father who works as a scavenger and his eight year old son.

2014 (62nd)	Ottaal	Malayalam	Director Cutz Film Company	Jayaraj	Ottal, a visual poem, expresses the beauty and serenity of the protagonist's rural environment and a way of life whose value is measured by the poignancy of its loss.

2015 (63rd)	Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal	Malayalam	A. K. Pillai	Dr. Biju	For a dramatically disturbing exposition of the ill effects of pesticides in North Kerala.

2016 (64th)	Loktak Lairembee	Manipuri	Haobam Paban Kumar	Haobam Paban Kumar	The film brings out the nuances of an environmental issue in a heart wrenching and touching manner

2017 (65th)	Irada	Hindi	Irada Entertrainment	Aparnaa Singh

Sentence(s)

Kannada film director P. Sheshadri received the National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation in 2005 for his film Thutturi which was produced by Jaimala Ramchandra.

final_sentence: Kannada film director P. Sheshadri received the National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation in 2005 for his film Thutturi which was produced by Jaimala Ramchandra.