National Film Award for Best Feature Film

National Film Award for Best Feature Film
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Type	National
Category	Indian Cinema
Description
Description	Best Feature Film of the year
Medal	Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
Statistics
Instituted	1953
First awarded	1953
Last awarded	2015
Total awarded	63
Cash award	₹ 2,50,000/-
Previous name(s)	President's Gold Medal for Best Feature Film
First awardee(s)	Shyamchi Aai
Recent awardee(s)	Baahubali: The Beginning

The National Award for Best Feature Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, India, and was constituted in the year 1954. This is one of the Golden Lotus Awards (Swarna Kamal) given among National Film Awards. It is announced for films produced in a year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Films in the following languages have won the Best Feature Film award: Bengali (22 awards), Hindi (13 awards), Malayalam (11 awards), Kannada (6 awards), Marathi (4 awards), Tamil (2 awards), Sanskrit (2 awards), Telugu (1 award), Assamese (1 award) and Beary (1 award). It was awarded in all years except in 1979.

All the awardees are awarded with 'Swarna Kamal' (Golden Lotus Award), cash prize and a Certificate. Award winners include Producer and Director of the film.

Cash prize amount varied over the period. Following table illustrates the cash prize amount over the years:

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