The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has announced the list of winners of the 70^th National Film Festival for 2024 just after Independence Day. The awards were announced during a press conference in which three movies have been nominated as the biggest winners, including Kantara for Best Popular Film, KGF 2 for Best Kannada Film and Gulmohar won the Best Hindi Film National awards. 

The list also includes the actors and music directors who are bestowed with Best Actors and Best Music Director’s awards, including Rishab Shetty from Kantara for Best Actor and Nithya Menon and Manasi Parekh shared the Best actress award.  

While Pritam and A.R Rahman won the Best Music Director’s award for Brahmastra and Ponniyin Selvan 2, respectively. Notably, there are certain changes in the National Film Awards this year. The “Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film” will now be known as the “Best Debut Film of a Director.” 

Here’s a full list of winners of the 70^th National Film Festival 2024 

Best Feature Film: Aattam 

Best Popular Film: Kantara 

Best Actor: Rishab Shetty, Kantara 

Best Actress: Nithya Menon and Manasi Parekh 

Best Director: Sooraj Barjatya 

Best Supporting Actress: Neena Gupta 

Best Supporting Actor: Pawan Malhotra 

Best Debut: Fouja, Pramod Kumar 

Best Telugu Film: Kartikeya 2 

Best Tamil Film: Ponniyin Selvan – Part 1 

Best Punjabi Film: Baaghi Di Dhee 

Best Odia Film: Daman 

Best Malayalam Film: Soudi Velakka CC.225/2009 

Best Marathi Film: Vaalvi 

Best Kannada Film: KGF: Chapter 2 

Best Hindi Film: Gulmohar 

Special Mentions: Manoj Bajpayee in Gulmohar, and Sanjoy Salil Chowdhury for Kalikhan 

Best Action Direction: KGF: Chapter 2 

Best Choreography: Tiruchitrabalam 

Best Lyrics: Fouja 

Best Music Director: Pritam (Songs), AR Rahman (Background Score) 

Best Makeup: Aparajito 

Best Costumes: Kutchh Express 

Best Production Design: Aparajito 

Best Editing: Aattam 

Best Sound Design: Ponniyin Selvan – Part 1 

Best Screenplay: Aattam 

Best Dialogues: Gulmohar 

Best Cinematography: Ponniyin Selvan – Part 1 

Best Female Playback: Soudi Velakka CC.225/2009 

Best Female Playback: Brahmastra