Indira Gandhi Award

The Indira Gandhi Award ( Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film of a Director ) is presented to the best debut film as part of the National Film Awards . The award is named after the former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1917–1984).

year	Movie	language	Director	producer
1980	Maina Tadanta	Bengali	Utpalendu Chakraborty
1981	Aadhar Sila	Hindi	Ashok Ahuja
1982	Can Sivanthaal man Sivakkum	Tamil	Sridhar Rajan
1983	Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro	Hindi	Kundan Shah
1984	Meendum Oru Kaathal Kathai	Tamil	Prathap Pothan
1985	New Delhi Times	Hindi	Romesh Sharma
1986	Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin	Hindi	Sudhir Mishra
1987	Ekti Jiban	Bengali	Raja Mitra
1988	Thrishagni	Hindi	Nabayendu Ghosh
1989	Wosobipo	Karbi	Gautam Bora
1990	Perumthachan	Malayalam	Ajayan
1991	Haldhaar	Assamese	Sanjeev Hazarika
1992	Mrs. Beatty's Children	English	Pamela Rooks
1993	Sunya counter Suru	Bengali	Ashoke Viswanathan
1994	Moghamull	Tamil	G. Rajasekharan
1995	Kahini	Bengali	Malaya Bhattacharya
1996	Rag Birag	Assamese	Bidyut Chakraborty
1997	Bhoothakkannadi	Malayalam	AK Lohithadas
1998	Daya	Malayalam	Venu
1999	Laado Dollar Dreams	Haryanvi English	Aswini Chowdhary Shekhar Kammula
2000	Sayahnam	Malayalam	R. Sarath
2001	Thiladaanam	Telugu	KNT Sastry
2002	Patal Ghar Prohor	Bengali Bengali	Abhijit Chaudhary Subhadro Chaudhary
2003	Margam	Malayalam	Rajiv Vijaya Raghavan
2004	Grahanam	Telugu	Mohan Krishna Indraganti
2005	Parineeta	Hindi	Pradeep Sarkar	Vidhu Vinod Chopra
2006	Eakantham Kabul Express	Malayalam Hindi	Madhu Kaithapuram Kabir Khan	Anthony Joseph Aditya Chopra
2007	Frozen	Hindi	Shivajee Chandrabhushan	Shivajee Chandrabhushan
2008	A Wednesday!	Hindi	Neeraj Pandey	UTV Motion Pictures

Currently, the producer and director of the winning film each receive a Swarna Kamal and prize money of 125,000 rupees .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Year for which the award was made
2. ↑ http://dff.nic.in/56th_NFA_Regulations.pdf