List of National Film Award records

Satyajit Ray holds the record for the highest number of awards with 32 wins in various categories. Lagaan holds the record for the highest number of awards with 8 wins by any film till.
Directing
*Best Direction
**Satyajit Ray - 6 (Overall 32 awards - Highest number of wins)
**Adoor Gopalakrishnan - 5 (Overall 17 awards - Second highest number of wins)
Acting per categories
*Best Actor
*Amitabh Bachchan has won 4 National Film Awards in the Best Actor category whereas , Mammootty has 3 National Film Awards in Best Actor category.
*Best Supporting Actor
**Nana Patekar, Pankaj Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni - 2 Awards each
*Best Actress
**Shabana Azmi - 5
**Sharada - 3
*Best Supporting Actress
**Surekha Sikri, K.P.A.C. Lalitha - 2 Awards each
Acting overall
*Shabana Azmi won 5 National Film Awards, all for Best Actress.
*Amitabh Bachchan won 4 National Film Awards in the Best Actor category.
* 7 actors have each won 3 National Film Awards:
**Kamal Hassan (3 Best Actor,1 Best child Actor)
**Mammootty (3 Best Actor)
**Sharada (3 Best Actress)
*Mohanlal won 2 National Film Awards in the Best Actor category and 2 Special Jury Award for acting. and one as producer of best film
**Kangana Ranaut (2 Best Actress, 1 Best Supporting Actress)
**Mithun Chakraborty (2 Best Actor, 1 Best Supporting Actor)
**Nana Patekar (1 Best Actor, 2 Best Supporting Actor)
**Naseeruddin Shah, (2 Best Actor, 1 Best Supporting Actor)
Best Cinematographer
*Santosh Sivan - 4 Best Cinematography, - 1 Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography (Overall 12 awards in various categories)
Best Editing
*A. Sreekar Prasad - 7
Writing
*Best Screenplay
**M.T. Vasudevan Nair - 4
**Mrinal Sen, Satyajit Ray - 3 awards each
Music
*Best Music Direction
**Ilayaraja - 5
**A. R. Rahman - 4
*Best Lyrics
**Vairamuthu - 7
**Javed Akhtar - 5
*Best Male Playback Singer
**K. J. Yesudas - 7
**S. P. Balasubrahmanyam - 6
*Best Female Playback Singer
**K. S. Chithra - 6
** P. Susheela - 5
Special Effects
*Best Special Effects
**S. T. Venki - 4
Regional
*Best Feature Film in Bengali (director)
**Satyajit Ray - 9
*Best Feature Film in Telugu (director)
**Adurthi Subba Rao - 6
*Best Feature Film in Kannada (director)
**Girish Kasaravalli - 6
**P. Sheshadri - 5
*Best Feature Film in Marathi (director)
**Jabbar Patel - 5

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