65th National Film Awards LIVE: Newton Wins Best Hindi Film; Toilet Ek Prem Katha Bags Best Choreography

Best Playback Singer(Female): Sasha Trupati (Vaan)
Best Playback Singer (Male): Yesudas
Best Child Artist: Bhanita Das (Village Rockstars)

Best Supporting Actor: Fahad Fazil (Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum)
Best Supoorting Actress: Divya Dutta (Irada)

Best Original Screenplay:Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum
Best Adapted Screenplay: Bhayanakam
Best Cinematography: Bhayanakam

Best Makeup Artist: Nagarkirtan, Ram Rajak
Best Costume: Nagarkirtan, Govinda Mandal
Best Production Design: Take Off, Santhosh Raman 
Best Editing: Village Rockstar, Rima Das
Best Sound Design: Walking With The Wind, Sanath George and Justin Jose
Best Audiography: Village Rockstar, Mallika Das

Best Background Score: AR Rahman, MOM
Best Lyrics: Muthuratna, March 22   
Best Music Direction and Songs: AR Rahman, Katru Veliyidai

Now it's time for the main categories:

Best Action Director: Abbas Ali Moghul (Baahubali-The Conclusion)
Best Choreography: Toilet-Ek Prem Katha (Gori tu lath maar) - Ganesh Acharya
Best Special Effects: Baahubali: The Conclusion
Special Mention: Nagarkirtan

Best Bengali Film: Mayurakshi
Best Assamese Film: Ishu
Best Tamil Film: To Let
Best Telugu Film: Ghazi
Best Gujarati Film: Dhh

Best Malayalam Film: Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum
Best Kannada Film: Hebbettu Ramakka
Best Hindi Film: Newton

Best Regional Films

Best Ladhaki Film: Walking With The Wind 
Best Jasari Film : Sinjar
Best Tulu Film: Paddayi
Best Odiya Film: Hello Arsi
Best Marathi Film: Kachcha Limbu 

Special Mention Awards

Marathi Film- Morkhya
Oriya Film- Hello Mirror 
Parvathy, Take Off
Pankaj Tripathi, Newton

Shekhar Kapoor takes the mic to announce the winners in 'Feature Film category.' Thanks other jury members for their effort. "It took me 12 years to make Masoom. It's extremely difficult to make regional cinema because funding is an issue."

Best Critic On Cinema Award goes to Giridhar Jha, Special Mention to Sunil Mishra

Best Short Film Fiction- Maiyat
Best Film On Family Values- Happy Birthday
Best Direction- Pravash Ch Nivandan, Nagraj Manule
Best Cinematography- Eye Test,  Don 

Best Investigative Film- 1984 When The Sun Did Not Rise
Best Animation Film- Fish Curry, Maachar Jhol
Special Jury Award: The Old Man, Monday

Best Adventure Film: Ladakh Chale Rickshaw Waale. A film made in Bengal where a Rickshaw puller made his mind to travel from Kolkata to Ladakh on his rickshaw. 

Best Adventure Film: Ladakh Chale Rickshaw Waale. A film made in Bengal where a Rickshaw puller made his mind to travel from Kolkata to Ladakh on his rickshaw. 

The Announcement begins:
Non-Feature Films: Best Educational Film The Girls We Were and The Women We Are. 

In the 64th Nation Film Awards, Akshay Kumar bagged the Best Actor award for Rustom. Malayalam actress Surabhi Lakshmi won the Best Actress award for her role in Minnaminungu. This year Rajkummar Rao and Parvathy are touted to be the big winners. 

The central panel members are filmmakers Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Ranjit Das and Rajesh Mapuskar, playwright Tripurari Sharma and screenwriter Rumi Jaffery.

Screenwriter Imtiaz Hussain (Parinda and Astitva) has been appointed head of the South I regional panel. Lyricist Mehboob, best known for his collaborations with AR Rahman, is the chairperson of the South II panel. Actress Gautami Tadimalla heads the North Panel and director Rahul Rawail, known for films such as Betaab and Arjun, heads the Western panel. Kannada director P Sheshadri chairs the Eastern panel.

Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has been appointed the chairperson of the central jury panel for the 65th National Film Awards. The government-appointed central panel comprises a chairperson and 10 members, which include the heads of five regional panels. Films are selected under various categories through a two-tier process that involves the regional and central panels.

The 65th National Film Awards are all set to be announced today. The awards will be handed out on May 3. The Directorate of Film Festivals presents its annual National Film Awards to honour the best films of Indian Cinema. The 65th edition will honour the films released in 2017.