The National Award Winners 2024 were announced on Friday, August 16, in which Kantara and KGF 2 emerged as the biggest winners. Kantara won Best Picture and Rishab Shetty bagged the Best Actor award. Yash starrer movie KGF Chapter 2 won Best Kannada film. Gulmohar wins Best Hindi Film National Award. Meanwhile, Nitya Menon and Maansi Paarekh shared the Best Actress award. Sooraj R Barjatya was presented with the Best Director for Uunchai.
On the music front, Pritam won Best Music Director for Brahmastra while AR Rahman took home the Best Background Music awards for his work in Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan 2. PS 2’s Anand Krishnamurthy also bagged Best Sound Design. Arijit Singh won Best Playback Singer Male for Brahmastra. The Ayan Mukerji directorial also won the Best VFX Award.
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
