National Film Award For Best Non-Feature Film Audiography - Winners

For preserving the aura of Gurudev's presence by transporting the audience through the years in the flowering of Rabindra Sangeet, embellishing the performance of the great singer Kanika Bandopadhyay.

For the selective and imaginative use of commentary and dialogues and the sculpted sound which enriches the film.

For a sustained standard of sound recording on difficult locations which enriches the quality of the film.

For extremely imaginative and conceptual use of location sounds to depict the crumbling heritage of the Maihar orchestra.

For together bringing about a quality of sound, which so enhances the acoustic, that the viewer becomes a participant.

For the creative use of sound to interpret the theme of the film.

For his restrained, balanced and multi-layered soundtrack.

For its strong sound structure which is woven and enmeshed into the fabric of the film.

For a sound design which evokes a vision of an era fading away.

For imaginatively capturing the hard labour and tediousness of the Pitthu through the sound design achieved through an appropriate synthesis of sound and silence.

For designing sound that imaginatively and creatively enhances the mood and narration of the film.

For adding a new dimension to the film through innovative sound track.

For sound design which evokes a vision of a world far, far away from the madding crowd, which oscillates between the silences and nature's pristine sounds.

For evolving an experimental form of narration within a story form, with excellent sound design.

For its outstandingly imaginative use of sound design complementing an equally breath-taking visual wizardry. Closer leaves its audience with a sense of beauty and awe.

For creating a sound track by combining location sound, ambience sound and music that enhance the "meaning" of the film.

For the innovative sound design enhances the mood of the film and draws one into the magical ambience replete with fairy tales.

With multiple layers of sound, and the incessant crackle of funeral pyres that cease to sleep, the film grips its audience with a sense of entrapment around the life of children working inside a cremation ground. It is a telling example of digetic sound design keeping its truth to the reality of the location.

For imaginative use of ambient sounds in effectively creating diverse soundscapes.

Does one hear the cry of the pest? In between the sound of the real and evoking music, the ensuing silence tells us the stories beyond.

For creating an aural world that enhances the layered narrative structure of the film.