54th National Film Awards

The whole awards & entries list is here:
http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2008/jun/54th_nfa.pdf.

However, some salient features:

1. At last, Soumitra Chatterjee has won a national award for the best actor - for the Bengali film Podokkhep. In 2001, he had won a special jury award for Goutam Ghose’s Dekha, but he had declined it. That year Anil Kapoor had got the award for Pukar. The best actress award goes to Priyamani for Paruthi Veeran (Tamil).

2. Priyanandan’s Malayalam film Pulijanmam has got the best feature film award.

3. Kabir Khan’s Kabul Express (Hindi) and Madhu Kaithapuram’s Eakantham (Malayalam) share the Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film of a Director.

4. Lage Raho Munnabhai has won the Best Popular Film Award, best screenplay (Abhijat Joshi, Raj Kumar Hirani & Vidhu Vinod Chopra), best lyrics (Swanand Kirkire for Bande Mein Tha Dum).

5. Care of Footpath, the Kannada film directed by Kishan SS, the world’s youngest film director (he was just about nine when he made the film), has won the Best Children’s Film award.

6. Madhur Bhandarkar has once again got the best director award, this time for Traffic Signal.

7. Dilip Prabhavalkar gets the best supporting actor award for his Gandhi act in LRM and also for Shevri (Marathi).

8. Konkona Sen Sharma gets the best supporting actress award for Omkara. Vishal Bhardwaj gets special jury award for direction.

9. Goutam Ghose gets best cinematography for Yatra.