This category includes composers who won the National Film Award for Best Music Direction presented by the Government of India's Directorate of Film Festivals.

National Film Award for Best Music Direction

1967–1980

1981–2000

2001–2008

2009–present

Songs	Amit Trivedi (2009) Vishal Bhardwaj (2010) Neel Dutt (2011) Shailendra Barve (2012) Kabir Suman (2013) Vishal Bhardwaj (2014) M. Jayachandran (2015) Bapu Padmanabha (2016) A. R. Rahman (2017) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2018) D. Imman (2019) Thaman S (2020) Devi Sri Prasad (2021)
Background score	Ilaiyaraaja (2009) Isaac Thomas Kottukapally (2010) Mayookh Bhaumik (2011) Bijibal (2012) Shantanu Moitra (2013) Gopi Sundar (2014) Ilaiyaraaja (2015) Bapu Padmanabha (2016) A. R. Rahman (2017) Shashwat Sachdev (2018) Prabuddha Banerjee (2019) G. V. Prakash Kumar (2020) M. M. Keeravani (2021)

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