National Film Award for Best Children's Film

National Film Award for Best Children's Film
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored byNational Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly calledPrime Minister's Gold Medal for the Best Children's Film
Reward(s)
  • Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
  • ₹3,00,000
First awarded1954
Last awarded2021
Most recent winnerGandhi & Co.
Highlights
Total awarded57
First winnerKhela Ghar

The National Film Award for Best Children's Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).

The award was instituted in 1954, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for children's films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (28 Awards), Bengali (7 Awards), Malayalam and Kannada (6 each), English (5 Awards), Marathi (3 Awards), Tamil, Telugu, Odia and Assamese (1 each).