This category includes cinematographers who are winners of National Film Award for Best Cinematography.

National Film Award for Best Cinematography

1967–1980

Black-and-white	Ramachandra (1967) Nariman Irani (1968) K. K. Mahajan (1969) K. K. Mahajan (1970) Nando Bhattacharya (1971) Mankada Ravi Varma (1972) Apurba Kishore Bir (1973) K. K. Mahajan (1974) B. S. Lokanath (1975) P. S. Nivas (1976) Balu Mahendra (1977) Shaji N. Karun (1978) Kamal Nayak (1979) Sivan (1980)
Color	M. N. Malhotra (1967) K. S. Prasad (1968) Marcus Bartley (1969) Radhu Karmakar (1970) Ramachandra (1971) K. K. Mahajan (1972) Soumendu Roy (1973) Soumendu Roy (1974) Ishan Arya (1975) S. Ramachandra (1976) Soumendu Roy (1977) Govind Nihalani (1978) Rajan Kinagi (1979) Ashok Kumar (1980)

1981–2000

Black-and-white

Shripati R. Bhat (1981)
No Award (1982)
B. Bindhani and Raj Shekharand (1983)
Discontinued after 1983

Color

2001–present

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