Dadasaheb Phalke Awards

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an annual award given by the Indian government for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. The award is named after Dadasaheb Phalke (Dhundiraj Govind Phalke). He is known as the father of Indian cinema. The award was instituted in the annual National Awards in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dadasaheb Phalke, to honour his invaluable contribution to Indian cinema.

The awards are announced each year by the Directorate of Film Festivals of India (DFFI). The award for a particular year is given during the end of the following year along with the National Film Awards. The award comprises a Swarna Kamal (golden lotus) medallion, a cash prize of 1 million and a shawl.

Veteran Tamil filmmaker K.Balachander, the director of hits like Ek Duuje Ke Liye and Sindhu Bhairavi and who has won numerous national and Filmfare awards, has been conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award Friday for 2010 for his outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema. Multifaceted Balachander, 81, has been a director, screenplaywriter and producer and has written, directed and produced more than 100 films in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada in his 45-year-long career.

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Here is a list of all past awardees.

No.	Year	Winner	Occupation
41	2009	Manoj Kumar	Actor, Director
40	2008	VK Murthy	Cinematographer
39	2007	Manna Dey	Singer
38	2006	Tapan Sinha	Director
37	2005	Shyam Benegal	Director
36	2004	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	Director
35	2003	Mrinal Sen	Director
34	2002	Dev Anand	Actor, Director, Producer
33	2001	Yash Chopra	Director, Producer
32	2000	Asha Bhosle	Singer
31	1999	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	Director
30	1998	B.R. Chopra	Director, Producer
29	1997	Pradeep	Lyricist
28	1996	Sivaji Ganesan	Actor
27	1995	Rajkumar	Actor
26	1994	Dilip Kumar	Actor
25	1993	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Lyricist
24	1992	Bhupen Hazarika	Composer (Music Director)
23	1991	Bhalji Pendharkar	Director, Producer, Writer
22	1990	Akkineni Nageswara Rao	Actor
21	1989	Lata Mangeshkar	Singer
20	1988	Ashok Kumar	Actor
19	1987	Raj Kapoor	Actor, Director
18	1986	B. Nagi Reddy	Producer
17	1985	V. Shantaram	Actor, Director, Producer
16	1984	Satyajit Ray	Director
15	1983	Durga Khote	Actress
14	1982	L. V. Prasad	Actor, Director, Producer
13	1981	Naushad Ali	Composer (Music Director)
12	1980	Paidi Jairaj	Actor, Director
11	1979	Sohrab Modi	Actor, Director, Producer
10	1978	Rai Chand Boral	Composer, Director
9	1977	Nitin Bose	Cinematographer, Director, Writer,
8	1976	Kanan Devi	Actress
7	1975	Dhirendranath Ganguly	Actor, Director
6	1974	Bomireddi Narasimha Reddy	Director
5	1973	Ruby Myers (Sulochana)	Actress
4	1972	Pankaj Mullick	Composer (Music Director)
3	1971	Prithviraj Kapoor	Actor (posthumous)
2	1970	B. N. Sircar	Producer
1	1969	Devika Rani	Actress