Dadasaheb Phalke Award Winner Complete list (1969-2022)

No:1. Superstar Rajinikanth has been conferred with the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2021.

No:2. Union Minister Prakash Javadekar announced the 1 April 2021.

No:3. Rajinikanth made his debut in 1975 with K Balachander's Apoorva Ragangal and has completed over 45 years in Kollywood.

No:4. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest honour in cinema, presented by the Directorate of Film Festivals for the recipient's contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema.

No:5. The award, named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who is revered as the father of Indian cinema, was instituted in 1969.

No:6. The recipient receives a Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) medallion, a shawl and a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh.

No:7. Stalwarts like Satyajit Ray, Nagi Reddy, Raj Kapoor, Lata Mangeshkar, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Dilip Kumar, Sivaji Ganesan, Asha Bhosle are some of the recipients of this award.

No:8. The last person to receive the award was Amitabh Bachchan in 2018. For the last three years, there had been no nominee.

Dadasaheb Phalke Award Winners List

National Awards	Year	Winner	Occupation
66th	2019	Rajinikanth	Actor, Producer and Politician
66th	2018	Amitabh Bachchan	Actor
65th	2017	Vinod Khanna	Actor, Producer and Politician
64th	2016	Kasinadhuni Viswanath	Filmmaker and Actor
63rd	2015	Manoj Kumar	Actor and Director
62nd	2014	Shashi Kapoor	Actor, Director and Producer
61st	2013	Gulzar	Poet, Lyricist and Director
60th	2012	Pran	Actor
59th	2011	Soumitra Chatterjee	Actor
58th	2010	K. Balachander	Director
57th	2009	D. Ramanaidu	Producer
56th	2008	VK Murthy	Cinematographer
55th	2007	Manna Dey	Singer
54th	2006	Tapan Sinha	Director
53rd	2005	Shyam Benegal	Director
52nd	2004	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	Director
51st	2003	Mrinal Sen	Director
50th	2002	Dev Anand	Actor, Director and Producer
49th	2001	Yash Chopra	Director and Producer
48th	2000	Asha Bhosle	Singer
47th	1999	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	Director
46th	1998	B.R. Chopra	Director and Producer
45th	1997	Pradeep	Lyricist
44th	1996	Sivaji Ganesan	Actor
43rd	1995	Rajkumar	Actor
42nd	1994	Dilip Kumar	Actor
41st	1993	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Lyricist
40th	1992	Bhupen Hazarika	Composer (Music Director)
39th	1991	Bhalji Pendharkar	Director, Producer and Writer
38th	1990	Akkineni Nageswara Rao	Actor
37th	1989	Lata Mangeshkar	Singer
36th	1988	Ashok Kumar	Actor
35th	1987	Raj Kapoor	Actor and Director
34th	1986	B. Nagi Reddy	Producer
33rd	1985	V. Shantaram	Actor, Director and Producer
32nd	1984	Satyajit Ray	Director
31st	1983	Durga Khote	Actress
30th	1982	L. V. Prasad	Actor, Director and Producer
29th	1981	Naushad Ali	Composer (Music Director)
28th	1980	Paidi Jairaj	Actor and Director
27th	1979	Sohrab Modi	Actor, Director and Producer
26th	1978	Rai Chand Boral	Composer and Director
25th	1977	Nitin Bose	Cinematographer, Director and Writer,
24th	1976	Kanan Devi	Actress
23rd	1975	Dhirendranath Ganguly	Actor and Director
22nd	1974	Bomireddi Narasimha Reddy	Director
21st	1973	Ruby Myers (Sulochana)	Actress
20th	1972	Pankaj Mullick	Composer (Music Director)
19th	1971	Prithviraj Kapoor	Actor (Posthumous)
18th	1970	B. N. Sircar	Producer