70th National Film Awards LIVE: The winners for the year 2022 will be honoured by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on October 8. The ceremony will begin at 2.30 pm and will see the winners in all categories in attendance, alongside political dignitaries.
The Jury for the 70th National Film Awards announced the winners on August 16. Regional cinema dominated with the Best Feature film going to the Malayalam movie Aattam: The Play and Rishabh Shetty bagging Best Actor for the Kannada hit Kantara. The best actress prize was shared by Nithya Menen, for the Tamil film Thiruchitrambalam, and Manasi Parekh for the Gujarati movie Kutch Express.
Sooraj R Barjatya was named Best Director for Uunchai. The adventure film, centred on four ageing friends readying to scale Mt Everest, also won Neena Gupta a Best Supporting Actress prize. Additionally, Mithun Chakraborty will be bestowed with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, which is India’s highest award in the field of cinema.
