Satyajit Ray is the most honoured director where six of his films '' Pather Panchali '' ( 1955 ) , '' Apur Sansar '' ( 1959 ) , '' Charulata '' ( 1964 ) , '' Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne '' ( 1968 ) , '' Seemabaddha '' ( 1971 ) , and '' Agantuk '' ( 1991 ) won the award , followed Buddhadeb Dasgupta ( five ) , Girish Kasaravalli and Mrinal Sen ( four each ) , Shaji N. Karun ( three ) , and Adoor Gopalakrishnan , Tapan Sinha , and G. V. Iyer ( two each ) . , the award was presented to the films of ten debutant directors ; Satyajit Ray ( '' Pather Panchali '' , 1955 ) , Adoor Gopalakrishnan ( '' Swayamvaram '' , 1972 ) , M. T. Vasudevan Nair ( '' Nirmalyam '' , 1973 ) , Girish Kasaravalli ( '' Ghatashraddha '' , 1977 ) , Shaji N. Karun ( '' Piravi '' , 1988 ) , Sandeep Sawant ( '' Shwaas '' , 2003 ) , Salim Ahamed ( '' Adaminte Makan Abu '' , 2010 ) , Suveeran ( '' Byari '' , 2011 ) , Anand Gandhi ( '' Ship of Theseus '' , 2013 ) , Chaitanya Tamhane ( '' Court '' , 2015 ) . Five films awarded with the Best Feature film award were also the Indian submission for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film ; '' Apur Sansar '' ( 1959 ) , '' Shwaas '' ( 2004 ) , '' Adaminte Makan Abu '' ( 2011 ) , '' Court '' ( 2015 ) and '' Village Rockstars '' ( 2018 ) . '' Adi Shankaracharya '' ( 1983 ) , the first film made in Sanskrit language , and '' Byari '' ( 2011 ) , the first film made in Beary language , won the award at the 31st National Film Awards and 59th National Film Awards , respectively
59th National Film Awards
59th National Film Awards
National Film Award for Best Feature Film