National Film Award For Best Supporting Actress - Winners

For the intense and a delicate portrayal of a dissatisfied fading actress.

For the delicate delineation of the role of a middle-aged widow fighting for modernity though herself rooted in tradition.

For a startlingly realistic portrayal of an exploited, illiterate woman who lives like a haunted animal, trapped into accepting her ultimate fate.

For her compelling performance as a woman who has not lost her innate human goodness even under the most adverse and stressful conditions of the holocaust.

For essaying the difficult role of a wife caught in the midst of unique social and psychological predicament.

For the versatility shown.

For portraying an ethnic character with authenticity.

For her work in the film, who lives the role of the understanding and tormented mother.

For compelling and convincing performance of an innocent village girl, giving it an effortlessly charming naturalness.

For a realistic portrayal of a loving mother and a betrayed wife, revealing shades of love, hate and anxiety.

For her portrayal of surrogate mother, underplayed with quite sensitivity and gentleness.

For her work in the film in which she plays the role of a grand mother with tremendous sensitivity which makes her presence in the film memorable.

For her role in the film, in which she depicts the aspirations and agony of a lonely teenage girl.

For her spirited and moving performance as a young woman who values friendship and love.

For bringing alive negative personality without losing her human face. She acts with conviction and comes up with a powerful performance.

For essaying the zest for life of a maidservant who comes from the slums and lives in a Haveli.

For breathing life into the schizophrenic daughter who knows she is a burden on her mother, but cannot help it.

For the role of Narayani in the film. Narayani is an elderly mother whose son has been killed in political violence. In the course of the film, she is transformed, gently and unobtrusiveuly into a crusade for peace. Lalitha brings great professional skills and sensitivity to the role.

For her humane and realistic performance of a complex character.

For her finely balanced portrayal of an enigmatic and unlikely detective against a simple middle class background.

For the grace with which she handles social and personal relationships.

For the grace with which she handles the tragedy of a community that is slowly fading away.

For the highly credible performance of a brave woman who pledges her life and love for an adopted child.

For the textured characterisation of a village woman trying to bring sanity in the violent lives of a political family in Uttar Pradesh.

For her smoldering portrayal of a woman dealing with her intense relationship with an older man with a towering personality.

For compelling portrayal of a down and out supermodel that enriches the impact of the film.

For the restraint with which she conveys strength, compassion and understanding to her daughter, a single mother, bringing up a son stricken with a rare degenerative disease.

For a sensitive portrayal of an aged widow who challenges orthodoxy when restrictions are placed upon her widowed granddaughter.

For the dignity and power with which she informs the character Yaiphabee in this tightly controlled Manipuri story. Her compelling presence on screen brings into focus the ubiquitous conflicts of changing India: tradition, urbanization and migration of the employable young from rural India. She gives force to the representation of Manipur and the Northeast in the realm of mainstream Indian consciousness of career, personal agency and reconciliation between the past and the present.

As an urban, middle-class housewife, the actor brings to life the daily ups and downs of a mother with a balanced touch of humour.

The role of a large-hearted yet conventional Muslim lady harbouring a hapless Hindu woman, respecting all her religious sentiments, has been portrayed with a certain natural flair by the actor.