Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment: Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Hindi); Producer: Ajay Devgn FFilms; Director: Om Raut
Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film by a Director: Mandela (Tamil); Producer: YNOT Studios; Director: Madonna Ashwin
Best Screenplay: Soorarai Pottru (Tamil)
Best Cinematography: Avijatrik (The Wanderlust of Apu) (Bengali); Cameraman: Supratim Bhol
Best Female Playback Singer: AK Ayyappanum Koshiyum (Malayalam); Singer: Nanchamma
best makeup : Natyam
Best Male Playback Singer: Mi Vasantrao (I Am Vasantrao) (Marathi); Singer: Rahul Deshpande
Best Musical Direction: Ala Vaikunthapuramulo
Best lyrics: Manoj Muntashir for Saina (Hindi)
Best Child Artist: Tak-Tak (Marathi); Child Artist: Anish Mangesh Gosavi; Sumi (Marathi); Child artist: Akanksha Pingle and Divyesh Indulkar
Best audiography: Dollu, Mi Vasantrao and Malik
Best Costume Design: Tanhaji
Best stunt choreography: Ayyappanum Koshiyum
Best Hindi Film: Toolsidar Junior
Best Bengali film: Avijatrik
Best Malayalam film: Commitment on Monday (English translation)
Best Tamil Film: Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum
Best Telugu Film: Color pictures
Best Kannada film: Dollu
Best Marathi Film: Tale of a Paithani (translation)
Best Assamese Film: Bridge
Best choreography: Natyam
Excluding feature films:
Best Family Values Film: Kumkumarchan, Abhijeet Arvind Dalvi
Better guidance: Oh it’s Bhanu, RV Ramani
Best Musical Direction: 1232 km – Marenge Toh Wahin Jaakar, Vishal Bhardwaj
Best Cinematography: Sabdikunna Kalappa, Nikhil S Praveen
Best audiography: Pearl of the Desert, Ajit Singh Rathore
Best editing: Borderlands, Anadi Athalie
Best Narration Voiceover: Rhapsody of Rains – Monsoons of Kerala, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan
Best sound on location: Jadui Jangal, Sandeep Bhati and Pradeep Lekhwar
Best film book: Kishwar Desai’s Longest Kiss
Best book on cinema (special mention): MT Anunahvangalude Pusthakam, Anoop Ramakrishnan and Kali Paine Kalira Cinema by Surya Deo.
(With ANI entries)