National Film Award for Best Child Artist

National Film Award for Best Child Artist
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema Instituted in 1968
Kalidas Jayaram receiving the Best Child Artist award from President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Awarded for	Best performance by a child artist in a year
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹2,00,000
First awarded	1968
Last awarded	2020
Most recent winner/s	Anish Mangesh Gosavi, Akanksha Pingle and Divyesh Indulkar
Highlights
Most awards	Mysore Seshaiah Suresh Babu Naidu
Total awarded	80
First winner	Baby Rani
Website	dff.gov.in/Archive.aspx?ID=6

The National Film Award for Best Child Artist is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal).

The award was instituted in 1968, at 16th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. The actors whose performances have won awards have worked in eleven major languages. Hindi (24 awards), Tamil (14 awards), Malayalam (13 awards), Marathi (9 awards), Kannada (7 awards), Bengali (6 awards), Telugu (3 awards), Meitei (1 award), Konkani (1 award), Assamese (1 award), Odia (1 award).