The National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, India, and was first given in 1967. This is one of the 'Silver Lotus Awards (Rajat Kamal)' given among National Film Awards. It is announced for films produced in a year across the country, in all Indian languages.
The award comprises a 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) medallion, a cash prize of 50,000/- and a certificate.
Read more about National Film Award For Best Supporting Actor: Superlatives, Winners
Famous quotes containing the words national, film, award, supporting and/or actor:
“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)
“I’ll be right here.”
—Melissa Mathison, U.S. screenwriter, and Steven Spielberg. ET, ET The Extra-Terrestrial, saying goodbye to Elliot as he touches Elliot’s forehead—ET’s final words in the film (1982)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Mr. [John] Barrymore’s smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don’t.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)