# National Film Award – Special Mention (Book on Cinema)

The National Film Award – Special Mention (Book on Cinema) is one of the National Film Awards given by the National Film Development Corporation of India. Instituted in 1995 and awarded at 43rd National Film Awards.
The awards aim at encouraging study and appreciation of cinema as an art form and dissemination of information and critical appreciation of this art-form through publication of books, articles, reviews etc. All the award winners are awarded with Certificate of Merit.

## Winners

All the award winners are awarded with Certificate of Merit. Following are the winners over the years:
List of books, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), author(s) and publisher(s) :
| Year | Book(s) | Language(s) | Authors(s) | Publisher(s) |
| 1995 (43rd) | Alanti Chalanchitram | Telugu | K. N. T. Sastry | |
| 1995 (43rd) | Cinemachi Chittarkatha | Marathi | Ashok Rane | |
| 1996 (44th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 1997 (45th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 1998 (46th) | Communication Cinema Development | English | Gaston Roberge | |
| 1999 (47th) | Economic Aspects of Film Industry in Kerala | English | Uma J. Nair | |
| 2000 (48th) | Such Is Life | English | Niranjan Pal | |
| 2000 (48th) | Sangeet Ka Soundarya Bodh | Hindi | Uma Garg | |
| 2001 (49th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2002 (50th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2003 (51st) | Kathapurush | Bengali | Niranjan Pal | |
| 2003 (51st) | Chalanchitra Nirdeshaka | Kannada | P. N. Srinivas | |
| 2004 (52nd) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2005 (53rd) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2006 (54th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2007 (55th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2008 (56th) | The Director's Mind | English | Ujjal Chakraborty | |
| 2009 (57th) | Eka Studioche Atmavrutta | Marathi | Prabhakar Pendharkar | |
| 2010 (58th) | Cinema Bhojpuri | English | Avijit Ghosh | Penguin Books |
| 2010 (58th) | Thiraicheelai | Tamil | Oviyar Jeeva | Trisakti Sundar Raman |
| 2011 (59th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2012 (60th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2013 (61st) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2014 (62nd) | Pride of Tamil Cinema (1931–2013) | English | G. Dhananjayan | |
| 2015 (63rd) | Forgotten Masters of Hindi Cinema | English | Satish Chopra | |
| 2016 (64th) | A Fly in the Curry | English | K. P. Jayashankar | |
| 2016 (64th) | A Fly in the Curry | English | Anjali Monteiro | |
| 2017 (65th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2018 (66th) | In A Cult Of Their Own: Bollywood Beyond Box Office | Amborish Roychoudhury | English | Rupa Publications India |
| 2019 (67th) | Cinema Pahanara Manus | Ashok Rane | Marathi | |
| 2019 (67th) | Kannada Cinema:Jagathika Cinema Vikasa Prerane Prabhava | P. R. Ramadasa Naidu | Kannada | |
| 2020 (68th) | M T Anunahvangalude Pusthakam | Anoop Ramakrishnan | Malayalam | Malayala Manorama |
| 2020 (68th) | Kali Paine Kalira Cinema | Surya Deo | Odia | Pakshighar Prakashani |
| 2021 (69th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2022 (70th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |