National Film Award/Bester Film über Sozialthemen

Die Gewinner des National Film Award der Kategorie Bester Film über Sozialthemen (Best Film on Social Issues such as Prohibition, Women and Child Welfare, Anti-Dowry, Drug Abuse, Welfare of the Handicapped etc.) waren:

Jahr	Film	Sprache	Regisseur	Produzent
1985	Accident	Kannada	Shankar Nag
1986	Doore Doore Koodu Kottam	Malayalam	Sibi Malayil
1987	Vedham Pudhithu Ore Oru Gramathile	Tamilisch Tamilisch	Bharathiraja Jyothi Pandian
1988	Main Zinda Hoon	Hindi	Sudhir Mishra
1989	Unnikuttant Jolikitty	Malayalam	V. R. Gopinath
1990	Oru Veedu Iru Vaasal	Tamilisch	K. Balachander
1991	Yamanam	Malayalam	Gopi
1992	Neenga Nalla Irukkum	Tamilisch	Visu
1993	Janani Narayam	Hindi Malayalam	Sanat Das Gupta Sasi Shanker
1994	Parinayam Wheel Chair	Malayalam Bengalisch	Hariharan Tapan Sinha
1995	Doghi	Marathi	Sumitra Bhave und Sunil Sukthankar
1996	Tamanna	Hindi	Mahesh Bhatt	Pooja Bhatt
1997	Dhanna	Hindi	Deepak Roy
1998	Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala	Malayalam	Sreenivasan
1999	Kairee	Hindi	Amol Palekar
2000	Vetri Kodi Kattu Munnudi	Tamilisch Kannada	Cheran P. Sheshadri
2001	Chandni Bar	Hindi	Madhur Bhandarkar
2002	Swaraj	Hindi	Anwar Jamal
2003	Koi Mil Gaya	Hindi	Rakesh Roshan
2004	Perumazhakkalam	Malayalam	Kamal
2005	Iqbal	Hindi	Nagesh Kukunoor	Subhash Ghai
2006	Hope	Telugu	K. Satyanarayana	P. Venkata Subbaiah
2007	Antardwandwa	Hindi	Sushil Rajpal	Sushil Rajpal
2008	Jogva	Marathi	Rajeev Patil	IDream Production

Derzeit erhalten Produzent und Regisseur des Gewinnerfilms je einen Rajat Kamal und ein Preisgeld von 150.000 Rupien.