National Film Award for Best Child Artist | |
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National award for contributions to Indian Cinema Instituted in 1968 | |
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Awarded for | Best performance by a child artist in a year |
Sponsored by | National Film Development Corporation of India |
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First awarded | 1968 |
Last awarded | 2020 |
Most recent winner/s | Anish Mangesh Gosavi, Akanksha Pingle and Divyesh Indulkar |
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Most awards | Mysore Seshaiah Suresh Babu Naidu |
Total awarded | 80 |
First winner | Baby Rani |
Website | dff |
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), Malayalam (14 awards), Tamil (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).