National Film Awards - 2003
Also Known As- 50th National Film Awards 2003Location- New Delhi, India
| National Film Awards 2003 - Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal) | ||
| Category | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| Best Film | Budhdhadeb Dasgupta | Mondo Meyer Upakhyan (Bengali) |
| Best Children's Film | A.K. Bir | Baaja (Oriya) |
| Best Direction | Aparna Sen | Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (English) |
| Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Devdas (Hindi) |
| National Film Awards 2003 - Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal) | ||
| Category | Winner | Film |
| Best Actor | Ajay Devgan | The Legend of Bhagat Singh (Hindi) |
| Best Actress | Konkona Sen Sharma | Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (English) |
| Best Supporting Actor | Chandra Sekhar | Nanba Nanba (Tamil) |
| Best Supporting Actress | Raakhee Gulzar | Shubho Muhurat (Bengali) |
| Best Music Direction | A. R. Rahman | Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil) |
| Best Lyrics | Vairamuthu | Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil) |
| Best Playback Singer (Male) | Udit Narayan | for song 'Chhote Chhote Sapne' from film 'Zindagi Khoobsurat Hai (Hindi)' |
| Best Playback Singer (Female) | Shreya Ghosal | for song 'Bairi Piya' from film 'Devdas (Hindi)' |
| Best Art Direction | Nitin Chandrakant Desai | Devdas (Hindi) |
| Best Cinematography | Abhik Mukhopadhyay | Patalghar (Bengali) |
| Best Editing | A. Sreekar Prasad | Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil) |
| Best Choreography | Saroj Khan | for song 'Dola Re Dola' from 'Devdas (Hindi)' |
| Best Screenplay | Aparna Sen | Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (English) |
| Best Special Effects | M.S. Indian Artists, Chennai | Magic Magic (Tamil) |
| Best Costume Design | Neeta Lulla, Abu Jani, Sandeep Khosla | Devdas (Hindi) |
| Best Audiography | H. Sridhar, A.S. Laxmi Narayanan | Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil) |
| Best Child Artist | P.S. Keerthana Shweta Prasad | Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil) Makdee (Hindi) |
| Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film) | Prakash Raj (Actor) Jyorthirmayi (Actress) | - Bhavam (Malayalam) |
| National Film Awards 2003 - Best Regional Film | ||
| Category | Winner | Film |
| For languages specified in schedule VIII of the constitution | ||
| Best Regional Film (Hindi) | Rajkumar Santoshi | The Legend of Bhagat Singh |
| Best Regional Film (Marathi) | Sumitra Bhave/Sunil Sukhtankar | Vastupurash |
| Best Regional Film (Bengali) | Rituparno Ghosh | Shubho Mahurat |
| Best Regional Film (Assamese) | Jahnu Barua | Konikar Ramdhenu |
| Best Regional Film (Kannada) | T.S. Nagabharana | Singaravva |
| Best Regional Film (Malayalam) | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Nizhalkkuthu |
| Best Regional Film (Tamil) | Mani Ratnam | Kannathil Muthamittal |
| For languages those are not specified in schedule VIII of the constitution | ||
| Best Feature Film in English | Prakash Belawadi | Stumble |
| National Film Awards 2003 - Other Feature Film Awards | ||
| Category | Winner | Film |
| Best Film on Other Social Issues | Anwar Jamal | Swaraj (Hindi) |
| National Film Awards 2003 - Non-Feature Film Awards | ||
| Category | Winner | Film |
| Best Non-Feature Film Direction | Anjali Panjabi | A Few Things I Know About Her (English) |
| Best Biographical Film | Budhdhadeb Dasgupta | Meeting Manjit (English) |
| Best Arts/Cultural Film | Priya Krishna Swamy | The Eye of the Fish - The Kalaries of Kerala (English) |
| Best Film on Social Issues | Manisha Dwivedi | Avchetan (Hindi) |
| Best Non-Feature Film on Family Welfare | Gul Bahar Singh | Dhatri Panna (Hindi) |
| Best Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film | B. Sivakumar | Urumattram (Tamil) |
| Best Short Fiction Film | Sandeep Chattopadhyay | Sunder Jebbon (Bengali) |
| Best Promotional Film | Goutam Ghose | The Treasure in the Snow: A Film on Sikkim (English) |
| Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film | Bappa Ray | The Morung - Silent Witness of the Brave Wancho (English) |
| Best Non-Feature Film Editing | Prathapan P. | 00 : 00 (English) |
| Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction | Raja Mitra | Kalighat Paintings and Drawings (English) |
| National Film Awards 2003 - Indira Gandhi Award | ||
| Winner | Film | |
| Abhijit Chaudhary Subhadro Chaudhary | Patal Ghar (Bengali) Prohorm (Bengali) | |
| National Film Awards 2003 - Nargis Dutt Award | ||
| Winner | Film | |
| Aparna Sen | Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (English) | |
| National Film Awards 2003 - Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award | ||
| Winner | State | |
| Mrinal Sen (Director) | West Bengal | |
| National Film Awards 2003 - Best Book on Cinema | ||
| Winner | Book | |
| Shoma Chatterjee Sarat Dutt | Paroma and other Outsiders: The Cinema of Aparna Sen (English) Ritu Aaye Ritu Jaaye (Hindi) | |