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National Film Award for Best Choreography

National Film Award for Best Choreography
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Type National
Category Indian Cinema
Description
Description Best choreography for a feature film song for a year
Medal Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
Statistics
Instituted 1991
First awarded 1992
Last awarded 2016
Total awarded 29
Cash award 50,000 (US$770)
First awardee(s) Laxmibai Kolhapurkar
Recent awardee(s) Raju Sundaram

The National Film Award for Best Choreography 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 1991 at 39th National Film Awards but awarded first time at 40th National Film Awards and then awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. The choreographer who has won most number of Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) for Best Choreography is Saroj Khan with 3 wins. followed by Prabhu Deva with 2 wins.

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:


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