# National Film Award/Bester Film

Die Gewinner des National Film Award der Kategorie Bester Film (Best Feature Film) waren:
| Jahr | Film | Sprache | Regisseur | Produzent |
| 1953 | Shyamchi Aai | Marathi | Pralhad Keshav Atre | |
| 1954 | Mirza Ghalib | Hindi | Sohrab Modi | |
| 1955 | Pather Panchali | Bengalisch | Satyajit Ray | |
| 1956 | Kabuliwala | Bengalisch | Tapan Sinha | |
| 1957 | Do Ankhen Barah Haath | Hindi | V. Shantaram | |
| 1958 | Sagar Sangamey | Bengalisch | Debaki Bose | |
| 1959 | Apur Sansar | Bengalisch | Satyajit Ray | |
| 1960 | Devi Anuradha | Bengalisch Hindi | Satyajit Ray Hrishikesh Mukherjee | |
| 1961 | Bhagini Nivedita | Bengalisch | Bijoy Bose | |
| 1962 | Dada Thakur | Bengalisch | Sudhir Mukherjee | |
| 1963 | Shehar Aur Sapna | Hindi | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas | |
| 1964 | Charulata | Bengalisch | Satyajit Ray | |
| 1965 | Chemmeen | Malayalam | Ramu Kariat | |
| 1966 | Teesri Kasam | Hindi | Basu Bhattacharya | |
| 1967 | Hatey Bazarey | Bengalisch/Hindi | Tapan Sinha | |
| 1968 | Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne | Bengalisch | Satyajit Ray | |
| 1969 | Bhuvan Shome | Hindi | Mrinal Sen | |
| 1970 | Samskara | Kannada | Pattabhi Rama Reddy | |
| 1971 | Seemabaddha | Bengalisch | Satyajit Ray | |
| 1972 | Swayamvaram | Malayalam | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | |
| 1973 | Nirmalyam | Malayalam | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | |
| 1974 | Chorus | Hindi/Bengalisch | Mrinal Sen | |
| 1975 | Chomana Dudi | Kannada | B. V. Karanth | |
| 1976 | Mrigayaa | Hindi | Mrinal Sen | |
| 1977 | Ghattashraddha | Kannada | Girish Kasaravalli | |
| 1978 | Ganadevata | Bengalisch | Tarun Majumdar | |
| 1979 | Ek Din Pratidin | Bengalisch | Mrinal Sen | |
| 1980 | Akaler Sandhane | Bengalisch | Mrinal Sen | |
| 1981 | Dakhal | Bengalisch | Gautam Ghose | |
| 1982 | Chokh | Bengalisch | Utpalendu Chakraborty | |
| 1983 | Adi Shankaracharya | Sanskrit | G. V. Iyer | |
| 1984 | Damul | Hindi | Prakash Jha | |
| 1985 | Chidambaram | Malayalam | Govindan Aravindan | |
| 1986 | Tabarana Kathe | Kannada | Girish Kasaravalli | |
| 1987 | Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai | Assamesisch | Jahnu Barua | |
| 1988 | Piravi | Malayalam | Shaji N. Karun | |
| 1989 | Bagh Bahadur | Hindi/Bengalisch | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | |
| 1990 | Marupakkam | Tamilisch | K. S. Sethumadhavan | National Film Development Corporation und Doordarshan |
| 1991 | Agantuk | Bengalisch | Satyajit Ray | |
| 1992 | Bhagwat Geeta | Sanskrit | G. V. Iyer | |
| 1993 | Charachar | Bengalisch | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | |
| 1994 | Unishe April | Bengalisch | Rituparno Ghosh | |
| 1995 | Kathapurushan | Malayalam | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | |
| 1996 | Lal Darja | Bengalisch | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | |
| 1997 | Thayi Saheba | Kannada | Girish Kasaravalli | |
| 1998 | Samar | Hindi | Shyam Benegal | |
| 1999 | Vaanaprastham | Malayalam | Shaji N. Karun | |
| 2000 | Shantam | Malayalam | Jayaraaj | |
| 2001 | Dweepa | Kannada | Girish Kasaravalli | |
| 2002 | Mondo Meyer Upakhyan | Bengalisch | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | |
| 2003 | Shwaas | Marathi | Sandeep Sawant | |
| 2004 | Page 3 | Hindi/Englisch | Madhur Bhandarkar | |
| 2005 | Kaalpurush | Bengalisch | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | Jugal Sugandh |
| 2006 | Pulijanmam | Malayalam | Priyanandanan | M. G. Vijay |
| 2007 | Kanchivaram | Tamilisch | Priyadarshan | Percept Picture Company |
| 2008 | Antaheen | Bengalisch | Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury | Screenplay Films |
Derzeit erhalten Produzent und Regisseur des Gewinnerfilms je einen Swarna Kamal und ein Preisgeld von 250.000 Rupien.