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

For evocative, lyrical beauty with which the camera has painted the dancer and her milieu.

For the dramatic manner in which the Indian landscape unfolds, seducing the viewer with timeless beauty of India.

For the arduous and patient coverage of the flora and fauna of the Silent Valley in Kerala over a period of one-and-a-half years and for giving an intimate portrait of the environment, recorded under difficult conditions.

For capturing on celluloid the many moods of the Bengal landscape and picturisation of the famous singer Suchitra Mitra.

For documenting a tragic reality with all its moods and emotions.

For his fastidious interpretation through lighting, and the fluidity of his camera operation.

For the beautiful images achieved through fascinating camera movements, excellent lighting, composition in tandem with music.

For his brilliant use of light and shade, to bring to life even inanimate objects in the film.

This experimental film deals with the decolonisation of the mind through its strong and artistic visual images.

For his perception of images to define a style that illustrates the harmony in the film.

For the imaginative and excellent visual quality rendered with consistency.

For capturing images that speak in tones of light and shade, thereby giving life to the lyrical form of the film.

For imaginatively capturing images in light and shade, through smooth movements to bring life to the historical house of the Tagores'.

For his fascinating style of framing under uncontrolled situations.

For a cinematic observation of myriad shades of humanity and breathtaking chiaroscuro of light and shade.

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 a short film which is highly enriched through excellent visual choreography.

For its visually poetic depiction of the decadent Parsi community, with imaginative use of great lighting and compositions.

For stretching the technical possibilities of videography and capturing the varying moods of river Narmada.

For her arresting use of lenses and lighting in the creation of a strange and magical world, full of a certain atmospheric dampness and mistiness, further enhanced by a consistent exhibition of striking cinematic compositions.

For providing with amazing discipline and sensitivity, an intimate insight into the lives of a small family, living in a confined space, with exquisite use of composition, rhythm, lensing and lighting.

For using highly sophisticated texture and tonal work, with deep anticipation into the flow and narrative of the film, the cinematography strives to redefine ways of image making and experience.

For brilliant craftsmanship, intelligent lensing in aesthetically recreating the ambience and the diverse pulsating life in a semi-urban lodge.

For imaginative yet minimal, a balanced and evocative cinematography creates a character out of a city night atmosphere, setting the space and mood for the living characters in their journey beyond the real, nearing mythical.

For photographing with stunning images tigers and other wildlife animals in their natural habitat and giving us visuals which are both unique and poetic.