National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress

National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
National award for contributions to Indian cinema
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Sponsored byDirectorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)
  • Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
  • 50,000 (US$780)
First awarded1984
Last awarded2021
Most recent winnerPallavi Joshi
Highlights
Total awarded41
First winnerRohini Hattangadi
Websitehttps://dff.gov.in/Archive.aspx?ID=6 Edit this on Wikidata

The National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress is an honour presented annually at India's National Film Awards ceremony by the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), an organisation set up by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.[1] Since 1984, the award is given by a national panel appointed annually by the DFF to an actress for the best performance in a supporting role within Indian cinema.[1][2] It is presented by the President of India at a ceremony held in New Delhi.[3]

The winner is given a "Rajat Kamal" (Silver Lotus) certificate and a cash prize of 50,000 (US$780).[a] Including ties and repeat winners, the DFF has presented a total of 41 Best Supporting Actress awards to 35 different actresses. Although Indian cinema produces films in more than 20 languages,[1] the performances of films that have won awards are of ten languages: Hindi (19 awards), Malayalam (7 awards), Bengali (4 awards), Tamil (4 awards), English (2 awards), Meitei (1 award), Marathi (1 award), Urdu (1 award), Haryanvi (1 award), Odia (1 award).

The first recipient was Rohini Hattangadi, who was honoured at the 32nd National Film Awards for her performance in the Hindi film Party (1984).[5] As of 2019, Surekha Sikri have been honoured thrice for her Hindi films – Tamas (1987), Mammo (1994) and Badhaai Ho (2018).[6] K. P. A. C. Lalitha won the award two times for her work in the Malayalam films Amaram (1990) and Shantham (2000)[7] along with Pallavi Joshi for her work in Hindi films The Tashkent Files (2019) and The Kashmir Files (2021). Egyptian actress Aida El-Kashef, who was honoured at the 61st National Film Awards for her performance in the English-Hindi film Ship of Theseus (2013) is the only non-Indian actress to win the award.[8] Urvashi and Kalpana are the only siblings to receive the honour. Ties between two actresses have occurred in the years 1999, 2012 and 2013. Sharmila Tagore, Konkona Sen Sharma and Kangana Ranaut are the three actresses to receive honours in both acting categories: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. The most recent recipient is Pallavi Joshi , who was honoured at the 69th National Film Awards for her performance in the Hindi film The Kashmir Files (2022).

  1. ^ a b c "About National Film Awards". Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original on 25 October 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  2. ^ "32nd National Film Awards – 1985" (PDF) (in Hindi). Directorate of Film Festivals. 1985. p. 15. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 October 2013.
  3. ^ "National Awards 2015, as it happened: Winners, wishes and morel". India Today. 3 May 2015. Archived from the original on 23 May 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  4. ^ "53rd National Film Awards – 2006" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 2006. p. 34. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 October 2013.
  5. ^ Chakravarty, Riya (3 May 2013). "Indian cinema@100: 40 Firsts in Indian cinema". NDTV. Archived from the original on 4 May 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Surekha Sikri". Rotten Tomatoes. 8 January 2011. Archived from the original on 27 July 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  7. ^ "'Shantham' brings kudos to Malayalam cinema". The Hindu. 27 March 2001. Archived from the original on 5 July 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  8. ^ "61st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2014.


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