2017 – Sujata Mohapatra 2018 – Surupa Sen 2019 – Sutapa Talukdar 2020 – Rabindra Atibudhi Sattriya 1963 – Maniram Datta Moktar 1978 – Bapuram Bayan Attai 1980 – Roseshwar Saikia Bayan Moktar 1996 – Indira P. P. Bora 1998 – Pradip Chaliha 1999–2000 – Parmanand Borbayan 2001 – Ghanakanta Bora 2004 – Jatin Goswami 2007 – Ganakanta Dutta Borbayan 2010 – Manik Borbayan 2013 – Jogen Dutta Bayan 2014 – Anita Sharma 2015 – Sarodi Saikia 2016 – Haricharan Bhuyan Borbayan 2017 – Ramkrishna Talukdar 2018 – Tankeswar Hazarika Borbayan 2019 – Ranjumoni Saikia Other major traditions of dance and dance theatre 2007 – Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri (Kutiyattam) 2009 – Kala Krishna (Andhranatyam) 2010 – Painkulam Rama Chakyar (Kutiyattam) 2012 – Painkulam Damodara Chakyar (Kutiyattam) 2013 – Srinivasa Rangachariar (Arayer Sevai) 2021 – Kalamandalam Girija (Kutiyattam) Music for dance 2005 – Josyula Krishna Murthy (Kuchipudi Bhagavatha Maddalla) 2006 – Kalamandalam Gangadharan (Kathakali Pattu) 2008 – Ramhari Das (Odissi) 2010 – S. Rajeswari (Bharatanatyam) 2011 – Karaikudi Krishnamurthi 2012 – Jwala Prasad 2013 – Dhaneshwar Swain 2014 – Varanasi Vishnu Namboothiri (Kathakali) 2015 – Rajkumar Bharathi 2017 – Ashit Desai 2020 – Prema Ramamurthy, Arambam Tombinou Devi 2021 – Bijay Kumar Jena Folk and Tribal dance 2017 – Mukund Nayak Theatre Acting From 1952–2003 (language-wise) Assamese 1961 – Mitradev Mahanta Adhikari 2001 – Girish Chowdhury Bengali theatre 1958 – Ahindra Choudhury 1962 – Tripti Mitra 1967 – Sabitabrata Dutta 1970 – Saraju Bala Devi 1973 – Shobha Sen 1975 – Molina Devi 1977 – Krishna Roy 1983 – Kumar Roy 1989 – Sekhar Chatterjee 1995 – Satya Bandopadhyay 1998 – Soumitra Chatterjee 1999–2000 – Ketaki Dutta Sabitri Chatterjee 2003 – Shaoli Mitra Gujarati theatre 1960 – Ashraf Khan 1965 – Muljibhai Khushalbhai Nayak 1968 – Jashwant Thaker 1974 – Pransukh Manilal Nayak 1980 – Dina Pathak (Gandhi) 1988 – Sarita Joshi Hindi theatre 1979 – Amrish Puri 1982 – Manohar Singh 1984 – Uttara Baokar 1985 – Fida Hussain 1989 – Surekha Sikri 1990– Naseeruddin Shah (also Urdu) 1999–2000 – Seema Biswas Kannada 1955 – Gubbi Veeranna 1961 – Subbaiah Naidu 1985 – B. Jayamma 1992 – R. Nagarathnamma 1994 – Balappa Yenagi 1996 – B. Jayashree 2003 – C. R. Simha Malayalam 1960 – C. I. Parameswaran Pillai 1965 – V. T. Aravindaksha Menon 1969 – N. N. Pillai Manipuri 1991 – Sabitri Heisnam 1997 – R. K. Bhogen