| National Film Award for Best Promotional Film | |
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| National award for contributions to short film | |
| Sponsored by | Directorate of Film Festivals |
| Formerly called |
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| Rewards |
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| First award | 1967 |
| Final award | 2021 |
| Most recent winner | Endangered Heritage |
| Highlights | |
| Total awarded | 35 |
| First winner |
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TheNational Film Award for Best Promotional Film was one of theNational Film Awards presented annually by theDirectorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up byMinistry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1967, at15th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the70th National Film Awards, the award is discontinued and clubbed withNational Film Award for Best Investigative Film,National Film Award for Best Scientific Film,National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film,National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film,National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film,National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film,National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues andNational Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film, and two new categories were created; Best Documentary and Best Non Feature Film Promoting Social and Environmental Values.[1]
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
| Awards legends | |
|---|---|
* | Best Promotional Film (Commercial) |
* | Best Promotional Film (Non-Commercial) |
* | Indicates a joint award for that year |
| List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s) | |||||
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| Year | Film(s) | Language(s) | Producer(s) | Director(s) | Refs. |
| 1967 (15th) | The Brown Diamond | English | Krishnaswamy Associates | S. Krishnaswamy | [2] |
| Sandesh | Hindi | J. S. Bhownagary and K. L. Khandpur forFilms Division | Omprakash Sharma | ||
| 1968 (16th) | No Award | [3] | |||
| 1969 (17th) | Weave Me Some Flowers | English | Mohan Wadhwani for Films Division | P. B. Pendharkar | [4] |
| 1970 (18th) | No Award | [5] | |||
| 1971 (19th) | |||||
| 1972 (20th) | Destination India | English | Cinerad Communications | Zafar Hai | [6] |
| 1973 (21st) | Delhi the City Beautiful | English | Jagdish Banerjee | Jagdish Banerjee | [7] |
| Fibre The Fabric of Life | English | Khadi and Village Industries Commission | G. L. Bhardwaj | ||
| 1974 (22nd) | To Serve Is To Love | English | Cinerad Communications forAir India | Zafar Hai | [8] |
| Ek Anek Aur Ekta | Hindi | Bhim Sain | Vijaya Mulay | ||
| 1975 (23rd) | Zenith of India | English | Film Media | Jyoti G. Thakur | [9] |
| Poems in Pattern | English | Ranabir Ray | Ranabir Ray | ||
| 1976 (24th) | |||||
| 1977 (25th) | Parvati | Hindi | Santi P. Chowdhury | Santi P. Chowdhury | [10] |
| 1978 (26th) | It Is Indian It Is Good | Hindi | Films Division | B. D. Garga | [11] |
| 1979 (27th) | |||||
| 1980 (28th) | Oil Offshore | English | Prem Prakash | Satya Prakash | [12] |
| 1981 (29th) | Hydrum | English | Omprakash Sharma for Films Division | Mahmood Quereshi | [13] |
| 1982 (30th) | No Award | [14] | |||
| 1983 (31st) | Ekta Aur Anushasan | Hindi | K. S. Kulkarni | S. K. Sharma | [15] |
| 1984 (32nd) | No Award | [16] | |||
| 1985 (33rd) | No Award | [17] | |||
| 1986 (34th) | No Award | [18] | |||
| 1987 (35th) | No Award | [19] | |||
| 1988 (36th) | No Award | [20] | |||
| 1989 (37th) | Tuna: The Chicken of the Sea | English | D. Gautaman | K. Jagajivan Ram | [21] |
| 1990 (38th) | No Award | [22] | |||
| 1991 (39th) | Of Mines and Men | English | P. C. Sharma | Raghu Krishna | [23] |
| 1992 (40th) | Sound of the Dying Colors | English | Paran Barbarooah, B. B. Productions | Sher Choudhury | [24] |
| 1993 (41st) | Timeless India | English | Zafar Hai | Zafar Hai | [25] |
| 1994 (42nd) | Blue Flames, Green Villages | English | National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests | Ramesh Asher | [26] |
| 1995 (43rd) | No Award | [27] | |||
| 1996 (44th) | No Award | [28] | |||
| 1997 (45th) | Sarang: Symphony in Cocophony | English | Y. N. Engineer for Films Division | Joshy Joseph for Films Division | [29] |
| 1998 (46th) | No Award | [30] | |||
| 1999 (47th) | No Award | [31] | |||
| 2000 (48th) | Pashmina Royale | English | Bappa Ray | Bappa Ray | [32] |
| 2001 (49th) | News Magazine No. 458 (In Search of Muga Silk) | English | Y. N. Engineer for Films Division | K. G. Das | [33] |
| 2002 (50th) | The Treasure in the Snow: A Film on Sikkim | English | • Ministry of External Affairs • South Asia Foundation | Goutam Ghose | [34] |
| 2003 (51st) | Ladakh: The Land of Mystery | English | Biyot Projna Tripathy | Biyot Projna Tripathy | [35] |
| 2004 (52nd) | No Award | [36] | |||
| 2005 (53rd) | No Award | [37] | |||
| 2006 (54th) | Rendezvous With Time | English | Madhya Pradesh Madhyam | Rajendra Junglay | [38] |
| 2007 (55th) | No Award | [39] | |||
| 2008 (56th) | Lost and Found | • Marathi • English • Hindi | • Harshavardhan G. Kulkarni • Kirti Nakhwa • Amitabh Shukla | Harshavardhan G. Kulkarni | [40] |
| 2009 (57th) | No Award | [41] | |||
| 2010 (58th) | Ek Ropa Dhan | Hindi | Meghnath Bhattacharjee | • Biju Toppo • Meghnath Bhattacharjee | [42] |
| 2011 (59th) | The Dream Fulfilled: Memories of the Engineering Challenges | English | Delhi Metro Rail Corporation | Satish Pande | [43] |
| 2012 (60th) | Dreaming Taj Mahal | • Hindi • Urdu | Nirmal Chander | Nirmal Chander | [44] |
| 2013 (61st) | Chasing The Rainbow | English | Edumedia India | Charu Shree Roy | [45] |
| Kush | Hindi | Red Carpet Moving Pictures Pvt. Ltd. | Shubhashish Bhutiani | ||
| 2014 (62nd) | Documentation of Clay Image Makers of Kumartuli | English | Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts | Ranajit Ray | [46] |
| 2015 (63rd) | Weaves of Maheshwar | • Hindi • English | Storyloom Films | • Keya Vaswani • Nidhi Kamath | [47] |
| 2016 (64th) | No Award | [48] | |||
| 2017 (65th) | Poetry on Fabric : Chanderinama | Sanjay Gupta for Pro Art India | Rajendra Junglay | ||
| 2018 (66th) | Rediscovering Jajam | • Hindi | • Rachel Bracken-Singh • Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing | • Avinash Maurya • Kriti Gupta | [49] |
| 2019 (67th) | The Shower | Little Lamb Films Pvt. Ltd. | Bauddhayan Mukherji | ||
| 2020 (68th) | Surmounting Challenges | English | Delhi Metro Rail Corporation | Satish Pande | [50] |
| 2021 (69th) | Endangered Heritage | Baba Cinemas | Hemant Verma | [51] | |