The 57th National Film awards were announced last night and Bollywood’s got reasons to cheer about.  Amitabh Bacchan’s stands tall & surpassed his fellow mates by winning his third national award on his stupendous performance on Ad film maker R Balki’s ‘Paa”.

In this National award, Big pictures backed projects have received 14 trophies. The clear winner appeared to be Malayalam film “Kutty Srank: The Sailor of Hearts”- a story of a lonely and short tempered, boatman from Kochi – won five awards including best screenplay (original) and cinematography for P.F. Mathews-Harikrishna and Anjuli Shukla respectively.

Cutting it all short, go through the list below

• Best Actor – Amitabh Bacchan – Paa – Hindi

• Best Actress – Ananya Chatterjee  Abohoman, Bangla

• Best Direction- Ritoparno Ghosh  Abohoman

• Best Film Award – Kutty Srank– Malayalam

• Best Hindi Film – Paa

• Best Music award – DevD Amit Trivedi

• Best Editing – Arghyakamal Mitra Abohoman

• Best Make Up – Paa – Christein Tinsley and Dominie Till

• Best Supporting Actress – Arundhati Nag – Paa

• Best Film providing wholesome entertainment –  3 Idiots

• Best Cinematography – Kutty Srank

• Best Costume – Kutty Srank

• Best Screenplay – Kutty Srank

• Best Film by a Debutante – Lahore

• Best Background Score – Ilayaraja  for Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja

• Best Supporting Actor award Farooque Shaikh Lahore

• Best Lyricist Swanand Kirkire ‘Behti hawa sa thha woh’ from 3 Idiots

• Best Playback Singer male – Rupam Islam for Kolkata in the Bengali film Mahanagar

• Best Playback Singer female – Nilanjana Sarkar for Bengali movie ‘Houseful’

• Special jury recognition award – Vishal Bhardwaj’s Kaminey, Malayalam film Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja, Kutty Srankenjoyed – Malayalam

• Malayalam film, Pazhassi Raja , Mammooty starrer Kutty Srank.

• Best Film on social issues – Shyam Benegal’s Well Done Abba

• Best Film on national integration – Delhi 6

• Best children’s film award – Putaani Party Kannada and Keshu  in Malayalam

• Best child actor award – Jeeva and Anba Karaus

• Best film award – non-feature category – The Postman and Bilal

Established in 1954, the National awards are widely appreciated and certainly the most prominent film award administrated by the Indian government’s Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.

A national panel is appointed by the government where the awards are given away by the president of India, in New Delhi.