71st National Film Awards: Find full list of winners here

The winners of the 71st National Film Awards were announced by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Films released in 2023 were eligible for the awards. Due to the pandemic, the awards are running a year behind schedule. The jury for the National Film Awards 2025 includes Anish Basu, Vihaan Aditya, MN Swami, Paresh Vora, Sushil Rajpal, M Maniram, Pradeep Nair, Vivek Dutta, and Prakruti Mishra. The jury saw 4-5 films a day with a total of over 300 films that were eligible. 

Here is the list of winners for the 71st National Film Awards for the year 2023

Best Direction – Sudipto Sen for The Kerala Story 

Best Actor –  Shah Rukh Khan for Jawan and Vikrant Massey for 12th Fail 

Best Actress – Rani Mukerji for Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway

Best Supporting Actor – Vijayaraghavan for Pookkaalam and Mutthupettai Somu Bhaskar for Parking 

Best Supporting Actress – Urvashi for Ullozhukku and Janki Bodiwala for Vash

Best Child Artist –  Sukriti Veni Bandreddi, Kabir Khandane and Treesh Thosar

Best Cinematography – Prasantanu Mohapatra for The Kerala Story 

Best Screenplay – Sai Rajesh Neelam for Baby and Ramkumar Balakrishna for Parking 

Best Dialogue Writer –  Deepak Kingrani for Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai 

Best Production Design – Mohandas for 2018: Everyone is a Hero (Malayalam)

Best Action Choreography – Hanu-Man (Telugu)

Best Make-Up Artist – Shrikant Desai for Sam Bahadur

Best Costume Design – Sachin Lovalekar, Divvya and Nidhiii Gambhir for Sam Bahadur

Best Music Direction for Songs –Vaathi (Tamil)

Best Music Direction for Background Scores –Animal – Harshavardhan Rameshwar

Best Lyrics – Balagam (The Group)

Best Male Playback Singer –  PVM S Rohit for Premisthunna

Best Female Playback Singer-  Shilpa Rao for Chaliya

Best Choreography – Vaibhavi Merchant for Dhindhora Baje from Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani 

Best Sound Design – Sachin Sudhakaran and Hariharan Muralidharan for Animal 

Best Action direction– Hanu-Man (Telugu)

Best Editing – Midhun Murali for Pookkaalam

Best Assamese Film – Rongatapu 1982

Best Bengali Film – Deep Fridge

Best Hindi Film – Kathal: A Jackfruit Mystery

Best Kannada Film – Kandeelu- The Ray of Hope

Best Malayalam Film – Ullozhukku

Best Marathi Film – Shyamchi Aai

Best Odia Film – Pushkara

Best Punjabi Film – Godday Godday Chaa

Best Tamil Film – Parking 

Best Tai Phake Film- Pai Tang… Step of Hope

Best Garo Film- Rimdogittanga

Best Telugu Film- Bhagavanth Kesari 

Best Gujarati film- Vash 

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