National Film Award for Best Editing | |
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National award for contributions to Indian Cinema | |
Awarded for | Best film editing for the feature film for a year |
Sponsored by | Directorate of Film Festivals |
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First awarded | 1976 |
Last awarded | 2019 |
Most recent winner | Naveen Nooli |
Highlights | |
Total awarded | 48 |
First winner | K. Babu Rao |
The National Film Award for Best Editing is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1976, at 24th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. The editor with the most awards in this category is A. Sreekar Prasad with nine wins.