National Film Award / Best Screenplay

The winners of the National Film Award category Best Screenplay ( Best Screenplay ) were:

year	Screenwriter	Movie	language
1966	Satyajit Ray	Nayak	Bengali
1967	SL Puram Sadanandan	Agniputhri	Malayalam
1968	Anand Kumar	Anokhi Raat	Hindi
1969	SR Puttanna Kanagal	Gejje Pooje	Kannada
1970	Satyajit Ray	Pratidwandi	Bengali
1971	Tapan Sinha	Ekhonee	Bengali
1972	Gulzar	Koshish	Hindi
1973	Mrinal Sen Ashish Burman	Padatik	Bengali
1974	Satyajit Ray	Sonar Kella	Bengali
1975	no price	-	-
1976	Vijay Tendulkar	Manthan	Hindi
1977	Shyam Benegal Girish Karnad Satyadev Dubey	Bhumika	Hindi
1978	TS Nagabharana T.S. Ranga	Grahana	Kannada
1979	Sai Paranjpye	Sparsh	Hindi
1980	Mrinal Sen	Akaler Sandhaney	Bengali
1981	K. Balachander	Thanneer Thanneer	Tamil
1982	Mrinal Sen	Kharij	Bengali
1983	GV Iyer	Adi Shankaracharya	Sanskrit
1984	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	Mukhamukham	Malayalam
1985	Bhabendranath Saikia	Agnisnan	Assamese
1986	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Phera	Bengali
1987	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	Anantharam	Malayalam
1988	Arundhati Roy	In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones	English
1989	MT Vasudevan Nair	Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha	Malayalam
1990	KS Sethumadhavan	Marupakkam	Tamil
1991	MT Vasudevan Nair	Kadavu	Malayalam
1992	MT Vasudevan Nair	Sadayam	Malayalam
1993	Satyajit Ray	Uttoran	Bengali
1994	MT Vasudevan Nair	Parinayam	Malayalam
1995	Saeed Akhtar Mirza Ashok Mishra	Naseem	Hindi
1996	Agathyan	Kathalkottai	Tamil
1997	Rituparno Ghosh	Dahan	Bengali
1998	Ashok Mishra	Samar	Hindi
1999	Madampu Kunjukuttan	Karunam	Malayalam
2000	Bharathiraja	Kadal Pookkal	Tamil
2001	Neelakanta	show	Telugu
2002	Aparna Sen	Mr. and Mrs. Iyer	English
2003	Gautam Ghose	Abar Aranye	Bengali
2004	Manoj Tyagi Nina Arora	Page 3	Hindi
2005	Prakash Jha Shridhar Raghavan Manoj Tyagi	Apaharan	Hindi
2006	Abhijat Joshi Rajkumar Hirani Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Location Raho Munna Bhai	Hindi
2007	Feroz Abbas Khan	Gandhi My Father	Hindi / English
2008	Sachin Kundalkar	Gandha	Marathi

Currently, the winner will receive a Rajat Kamal and a prize of 50,000 rupees .

Footnotes

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