Ramkrishna Matkari 2009 – Shankar Narayan Navre Mizo 2007 – Lathangfala Sailo Oriya 1981 – Manoranjan Das 1982 – Biswajit Das 1987 – Gopal Chhotray Punjabi 1993 – Gursharan Singh 1998 – Balwant Gargi 2010 – Atamjeet Singh Tamil 1974 – S.D. Sundaram 1999–2000 – Na. Muthuswamy 2004 – Indira Parthasarathy Telugu 2010 – D. Vizai Bhaskar 2012 onwards 2012 – Arjun Deo Charan 2013 – Rameshwar Prem, Pundalik Narayan Naik 2014 – Asgar Wajahat 2018 – Rajiv Naik, Laltluangliana Khiangte 2019 – Hrishikesh Sulabh Allied Theatre Arts Lighting 1974 – Tapas Sen 1977 – V, Ramamurthy 1989 – G.N. Dasgupta 1994 – Kanishka Sen 1997 – Mansukh Joshi (for scenic design also) 1999–2000 – R.K. Dhingra 2002 – Ashok Sagar Bhagat 2003 – Sreenivas G. Kappanna 2005 – Suresh Bhardwaj 2006 - Gautam Bhattacharya 2011 – Kamal Jain 2019 – Souti Chakraborty 2020 – Raghav Prakash Scenic Design 1985 – Goverdhan Panchal 1986 – Khaled Choudhury 1988 – Dattatraya Ganesh Godse 1997 – Mansukh Joshi 1999–2000 – Robin Das 2007 – Mahendra Kumar Costumes/Make-up 1981 – Ashok Srivastava (Make-up) 1990 – Roshan Alkazi (Costume Design) 1999–2000 – Shakti Sen (Make-up) 2001 – Dolly Ahluwalia (Costume Design) 2003 – Anant Gopal Shinde (Make-up) 2004 – Prema Karanth (Costume Design) 2008 – Amba Sanyal (Costume Designing) 2009 – Kamal Arora (Make-up) 2013 – Krishna Borkar (Make-up) 2019 – N.K. Ramakrishna (Make-up) 2020 – M. Purushottam (Costume Design) Music for Theatre 1999–2000 – Kajal Ghosh, Kamal Tewari 2005 - R. Paramashivan 2009 – Kuldeep Singh 2012 - Murari Roychoudhury 2014 - Amod Bhatt, Amardas Manikpuri (Chhattisgarh) Stagecraft 1993 – M.S. Sathyu 1995 – N. Krishnamoorthy 2002 – Nissar Allana 2005 – H. V. Sharma 2020 – N. Jadumani Singh Major traditions of theatre 2007 – Kolyur Ramachandra Rao (Yakshagana) 2008 – Bansi Lal Khiladi, Khayal (Rajasthan) 2012 – Ghulam Rasool Bhagat (Bhand Pather) 2014 – Manjunath Bhagwat Hostota (Yakshagana) 2018 – Bhagawat A. S. Nanjappa (Yakshagana), A. M. Parameswaran Kuttan Chakkiyar (Kutiyattam) 2019 – K. S. Krishanappa (Isai Natakam) 2020 – P. P. Kandaswami (Therukoothu) 2021 – Gunindra Nath Ojah (Music and Direction in Ankiya Bhaona) Other Traditional / Folk/ Tribal/ Dance/ Music/ Theatre and Puppetry 1964 – Mani Madhava Chakyar (Kutiyattam), Kerala 1969 – Gahan Chandra Goswami (Ankia Nat, Assam) 1972 – Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair (Kathakali), Kerala 1976 – Raghunath Panigrahi (Joint Award with Sanjukta Panigrahi for Odissi Music, Orissa) 1981