National Award For Best Actor
Although the Indian film industry produces films in around 20 languages and dialects, the actors whose performances have won awards have worked in eight major languages: Hindi (twenty-five awards), Malayalam (fourteen awards), Tamil (nine awards), Bengali (five awards), Marathi, Kannada (three awards), English (two awards), and Telugu (one award).
The first recipient was Uttam Kumar from Bengali cinema, who was honoured at the 15th National Film Awards in 1967 for his performances in Anthony Firingee and Chiriyakhana. He was also the first actor who won this award for two different films in the same year. As of 2021, Amitabh Bachchan is the most honoured actor with four awards. Kamal Haasan, Mammootty and Ajay Devgn with three awards, while six actors—Mohanlal, Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjeev Kumar, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah and Dhanush—have won the award two times. Two actors have achieved the honour for performing in two languages—Mithun Chakraborty (Hindi and Bengali) and Mammootty (Malayalam and English). The most recent recipient is Allu Arjun who is honoured at the 69th National Film Awards for his performance in the film Pushpa: The Rise.
Key
Symbol | Meaning |
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Year | Indicates the year in which the film was censored by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) |
† | Indicates a joint award for that year |
‡ | Indicates that the winner won the award for two performances in that year |
Recipients
Footnotes
- ^ As of 2014, the cash prize is ₹50,000 (US$600).
- ^ Denotes The year in which the film was censored by the Central Board of Film Certification.
- ^ The character played by Kamal Haasan was loosely based on the Mumbai-based Tamil gangster Varadarajan Mudaliar.
- ^ Mammootty played the real-life character of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer in the film that was based on an autobiographical novel of the same name by Basheer himself .
- ^ The character remained unnamed throughout the film.
- ^ Vijay played the character of a transgender.
- ^ In interviews with The Quint and Hindustan Times, the then-jury chairman Priyadarshan stated that Kumar won the award for Rustom and Airlift, but for technical reasons only one film was mentioned in the list of winners.
- ^ Sen played the character of a transgender.
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