This category includes the winners of the National Film Award – Special Jury Award (feature film).

National Film Award – Special Jury Award (feature film)

1978–1980

– (1978)
– (1979)
– (1980)

1981–2000

Satyajit Ray (1981)
– (1982)
Mankada Ravi Varma (1983)
T. S. Ranga (1984)
Sudha Chandran (1985)
John Abraham (1986)
M. B. Sreenivasan (1987)
Ashok Ahuja (1988)
Amitabh Chakraborty (1989)
Pankaj Kapur, Sunny Deol, and Jayabharathi (1990)
Soumitra Chatterjee (1991)
Sivaji Ganesan and Ketan Mehta (1992)
Shashi Kapoor and Pallavi Joshi (1993)
Radhu Karmakar and Shaji N. Karun (1994)
Shyam Benegal (1995)
Amol Palekar and Kirron Kher (1996)
Jayamala (1997)
Kitchhu Sanlap Kitchhu Pralap (1998)
Kalabhavan Mani (1999)
Soumitra Chatterjee (2000)

2001–present

Janaki Vishwanathan (2001)
Prakash Raj (2002)
Manoj Bajpayee and Bhalo Theko (2003)
J. Phillip (2004)
Anupam Kher (2005)
Vishal Bhardwaj (2006)
Gandhi, My Father (2007)
Bioscope (2008)
A. Sreekar Prasad (2009)
Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (2010)
Anjan Dutt (2011)
Rituparno Ghosh and Nawazuddin Siddiqui (2012)
Miss Lovely and Yellow (2013)
Bhaurao Karhade (2014)
Kalki Koechlin (2015)
Mohanlal (2016)
Nagarkirtan (2017)
Hellaro and Kedara (2018)
R. Parthiban (2019)
Admitted (2020)

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