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National Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

The National Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards of India instituted since 1967 to actors who have delivered the best performance in a leading role within the Indian film industry.[1] Called the "State Awards for Films" when established in 1954, the National Film Awards ceremony is older than the Directorate of Film Festivals. The State Awards instituted the individual award in 1968 as the "Bharat Award for the Best Actor"; in 1975, it was renamed as the "Rajat Kamal Award for the Best Actor".[1][2][3] Throughout the past 45 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, the Government of India has presented a total of 52 "Best Actor" awards to 40 actors. Until 1974, winners of the National Film Award received a figurine and certificate; since 1975, they have been awarded with a "Rajat Kamal" (silver lotus), certificate and a cash prize.[a][2] Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name was changed to "National Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role".[5]

National Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
The 2022 recipient: Rishab Shetty
The 2022 recipient: Rishab Shetty
Awarded forBest performance by an actor in a leading role
Sponsored byNational Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly calledBharat Award (1968–1974)
National Film Award for Best Actor (1975–2021)
Reward(s)
  • Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
  • ₹2,00,000
First awarded1967
Last awarded2022
Most recent winnerRishab Shetty
Highlights
Most awardsAmitabh Bachchan (4)
Total awarded61
First winnerUttam Kumar

Although the Indian film industry produces films in around 20 languages and dialects,[1] the actors whose performances have won awards have worked in eight major languages: Hindi (twenty-five awards), Malayalam (fourteen awards), Tamil (nine awards), Bengali (five awards), Marathi, Kannada (four awards), English (two awards), and Telugu (one award).

The first recipient was Uttam Kumar from Bengali cinema, who was honoured at the 15th National Film Awards in 1967 for his performances in Anthony Firingee and Chiriyakhana.[6] He was also the first actor who won this award for two different films in the same year. As of 2022 edition, Amitabh Bachchan is the most honoured actor with four awards. Kamal Haasan, Mammootty and Ajay Devgn with three awards, while six actors—Mohanlal, Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjeev Kumar, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah and Dhanush—have won the award two times. Two actors have achieved the honour for performing in two languages—Mithun Chakraborty (Hindi and Bengali) and Mammootty (Malayalam and English).[7] The most recent recipient is Rishab Shetty who is honoured at the 70th National Film Awards for his performance in Kantara.

Key

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Symbol Meaning
Year Indicates the year in which the film was censored by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)
† Indicates a joint award for that year
‡ Indicates that the winner won the award for two performances in that year

Recipients

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Uttam Kumar
(The first-ever recipient of the Best Actor Award for his performances in Antony Firingee and Chiriyakhana in 1967.)
 
M. G. Ramachandran, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu won the award for his performance in Rickshawkaran in 1971.


 
 
 
Kamal Haasan (top), Mammootty (middle), and Ajay Devgn (bottom) are the three actors to win the honour thrice.
 
Mithun Chakraborty was awarded for his debut film.[8]
 
Riddhi Sen
(youngest winner)
List of award recipients, showing the year, role(s), film(s) and language(s)
Year[b] Recipient(s) Role(s) Work(s) Language(s) Refs."
1967
(15th) ‡ 		Uttam Kumar Anthony Firingee Antony Firingee Bengali [9]
Byomkesh Bakshi Chiriyakhana
1968
(16th) 		Ashok Kumar Shivnath "Joggi Thakur" Choudhary Aashirwad Hindi [10]
1969
(17th) 		Utpal Dutt Bhuvan Shome Bhuvan Shome Hindi [11]
1970
(18th) 		Sanjeev Kumar Hamid Ahmed Dastak Hindi [12]
1971
(19th) 		M. G. Ramachandran Selvam Rickshawkaran Tamil [13]
1972
(20th) 		Sanjeev Kumar Hari Charan Mathur Koshish Hindi [12]
1973
(21st) 		P. J. Antony Velichapad Nirmalyam Malayalam [2]
1974
(22nd) 		Sadhu Meher Kishtayya Ankur Hindi [3]
1975
(23rd) 		M. V. Vasudeva Rao Choma Chomana Dudi Kannada [14]
1976
(24th) 		Mithun Chakraborty Ghinua Mrigayaa Hindi [15]
1977
(25th) 		Bharath Gopi Shankaran Kutty Kodiyettam Malayalam [16]
1978
(26th) 		Arun Mukherjee Parasuram Parasuram Bengali [17]
1979
(27th) 		Naseeruddin Shah Anirudh Parmar Sparsh Hindi [18]
1980
(28th) 		Balan K. Nair Govindan Oppol Malayalam [19]
1981
(29th) 		Om Puri Hari Mondal Arohan Hindi [20]
1982
(30th) 		Kamal Haasan R. Srinivas
(Cheenu) 		Moondram Pirai Tamil [21]
1983
(31st) 		Om Puri Anant Velankar Ardh Satya Hindi [22]
1984
(32nd) 		Naseeruddin Shah Naurangia Paar Hindi [18]
1985
(33rd) 		Shashi Kapoor Vikas Pande New Delhi Times Hindi [23]
1986
(34th) 		Charuhasan Tabara Shetty Tabarana Kathe Kannada [24]
1987
(35th) 		Kamal Haasan Sakthivelu Nayakar [c] Nayakan Tamil [26]
1988
(36th) 		Premji Raghava Chakyar Piravi Malayalam [27]
1989
(37th) ‡ 		Mammootty Vaikom Muhammad Basheer[d]
Mathilukal Malayalam [29]
Chandu Chekavar Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha
1990
(38th) 		Amitabh Bachchan Vijay Deenanath Chauhan Agneepath Hindi [30]
1991
(39th) 		Mohanlal Kalliyur Gopinathan Bharatham Malayalam [31]
1992
(40th) 		Mithun Chakraborty Shibnath Tahader Katha Bengali [15]
1993
(41st) ‡ 		Mammootty Ponthan Mada Ponthan Mada Malayalam [29]
Bhaskara Patelar Vidheyan
1994
(42nd) 		Nana Patekar Pratap Narayan Tilak Krantiveer Hindi [32]
1995
(43rd) 		Rajit Kapur Mahatma Gandhi The Making of the Mahatma English [33]
1996
(44th) 		Kamal Haasan Senapathy
(Indian),
Chandrabose
(Chandru) 		Indian Tamil [34]
1997
(45th) † 		Balachandra Menon Ismail Samaantharangal Malayalam [35]
Suresh Gopi Kannan Perumalayan Kaliyattam Malayalam
1998
(46th) † 		Ajay Devgn Ajay R. Desai Zakhm Hindi [7]
Mammootty B. R. Ambedkar Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar English
1999
(47th) 		Mohanlal Kunjikuttan Vanaprastham Malayalam [36]
2000
(48th) 		Anil Kapoor Major Jaidev Rajvansh Pukar Hindi [37]
2001
(49th) 		Murali Appa Mestry Neythukaran Malayalam [38]
2002
(50th) 		Ajay Devgn Bhagat Singh The Legend of Bhagat Singh Hindi [39]
2003
(51st) 		Vikram Chithan Pithamagan Tamil [40]
2004
(52nd) 		Saif Ali Khan Karan Kapoor Hum Tum Hindi [41]
2005
(53rd) 		Amitabh Bachchan Debraj Sahai Black Hindi [42]
2006
(54th) 		Soumitra Chatterjee Shashanka Palit Podokkhep Bengali [43]
2007
(55th) 		Prakash Raj Vengadam Kanchivaram Tamil [44]
2008
(56th) 		Upendra Limaye Tayappa Jogwa Marathi [45]
2009
(57th) 		Amitabh Bachchan Auro Paa Hindi [46]
2010
(58th) † 		Dhanush K. P. Karuppu Aadukalam Tamil [47]
Salim Kumar Abu Adaminte Makan Abu Malayalam
2011
(59th) 		Girish Kulkarni Keshya Deool Marathi [48]
2012
(60th) † 		Irrfan Khan Paan Singh Tomar Paan Singh Tomar Hindi [4]
Vikram Gokhale Ratnakar Anumati Marathi
2013
(61st) † 		Rajkummar Rao Shahid Azmi Shahid Hindi [49]
Suraj Venjaramoodu Father [e] Perariyathavar Malayalam
2014
(62nd) 		Sanchari Vijay Madesha
(Vidya) [f] 		Naanu Avanalla...Avalu Kannada [50]
2015
(63rd) 		Amitabh Bachchan Bhashkor Banerjee Piku Hindi [51]
2016
(64th) 		Akshay Kumar Commander Rustom Pavri Rustom [g] Hindi [54]
2017
(65th) 		Riddhi Sen Parimal
(Puti) [h] 		Nagarkirtan Bengali [55]
2018
(66th) † 		Ayushmann Khurrana Akash Andhadhun Hindi
Vicky Kaushal Major Vihaan Singh Shergill Uri: The Surgical Strike Hindi
2019
(67th) † 		Manoj Bajpayee Ganpath Bhonsle Bhonsle Hindi [56]
Dhanush Sivasaami Asuran Tamil
2020
(68th) † 		Suriya Nedumaaran Rajangam (Maara) Soorarai Pottru Tamil [57]
Ajay Devgn Tanaji Malusare Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior Hindi
2021
(69th) 		Allu Arjun Molleti Pushpa Raj Pushpa: The Rise Telugu [58]
2022
(70th) 		Rishab Shetty Shiva Kantara Kannada [59]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Until 69th National Film Awards (2021), the cash prize is ₹50,000.[4]
  2. ^ Denotes The year in which the film was censored by the Central Board of Film Certification.
  3. ^ The character played by Kamal Haasan was loosely based on the Mumbai-based Tamil gangster Varadarajan Mudaliar.[25]
  4. ^ Mammootty played the real-life character of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer in the film that was based on an autobiographical novel of the same name by Basheer himself .[28]
  5. ^ The character remained unnamed throughout the film.
  6. ^ Vijay played the character of a transgender.
  7. ^ In interviews with The Quint and Hindustan Times, the then-jury chairman Priyadarshan stated that Kumar won the award for Rustom and Airlift, but for technical reasons only one film was mentioned in the list of winners.[52][53]
  8. ^ Sen played the character of a transgender.

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