National Film Award / Best Film in Kannada

The winners of the National Film Award in the category Best Film in Kannada ( Best Feature Film in Kannada ) were:

year	Movie	Director	producer
1988	Bannada Vesha	Girish Kasaravalli
1996	America America	Nagathihalli Chandrashekar
1999	Kanooru Heggadathi	Girish Karnad
2000	Mathadana	TN Seetharam
2002	Singaravva	TS Nagabharana	Sandesh Nagaraj
2003	Preethi Prema Pranaya	Kavitha Lankesh	Kavitha Lankesh
2004	Beru	P. Sheshadri	Mitrachitra
2005	Thaayi	Baraguru Ramchandrappa	Prameela Joshi
2006	Kaada Beladingalu	BS Lingadevaru	KM Veeresh KN Siddalingaiah B.S. Lingadevaru
2007	Gulabi talkies	Girish Kasaravalli	Basant Kumar Patil
2008	Vimukthi	P. Sheshadri	Navyachitra Creations

Currently, the producer and director of the winning film each receive a Rajat Kamal and prize money of 100,000 rupees .

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