| National Film Award for Best Children's Film | |
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| National award for contributions to Indian Cinema | |
| Sponsored by | Directorate of Film Festivals |
| Formerly called | Prime Minister's Gold Medal for the Best Children's Film |
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| First awarded | 1954 |
| Last awarded | 2023 |
| Most recent winner | Gandhi & Co. |
| Highlights | |
| Total awarded | 57 |
| First winner | Khela Ghar |
The National Film Award for Best Children's Film 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 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, Oriya and Assamese (1 each).