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President Pratibha Patil gave away the 54th National Film Awards at Vigyan Bhawan on Tuesday evening.

Awards were presented in 31 different categories in the feature film section and 22 categories in the non-feature film section. From this time onwards, two new categories – Best Animation Film and Best Make-up Artist have been introduced. The prize money has also been hiked five times, after the President directed the government to do so during the 53rd National Awards presentation ceremony, which were also presented early this year.

Each of the awards carries cash prize of Rs 10 lakh, a citation and a shawl.

The awards given in various categories are as follows:

Dada Saheb Phalke award:
Tapan Sinha
Lifetime Achievement Awards:
Lata Mangeshkar
Dilip Kumar
Saroja Devi

Best Feature Film:
Pulijanmam

Best Popular Film Providing Wholesale Entertainment: Lage Raho Munna Bhai

Nargis Dutt Award for the Best Feature Film: Kallarli Huvagi
The Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film of a Director:
Eakantham - Madhu Kaithapuram
Kabul Express - Kabir Khan

Special Jury Award:
Vishal Bhardwaj - Omkara

The Award for the Best Film on Social Issues:
Hope

Best Direction:
Madhur Bhandarkar - Traffic Signal

Best Actor:
Soumitra Chatterjee - Podokkhep

Best Actress:
Priyamani - Paruthi Veeran

Best Supporting Actress:
Konkana Sen - Antarnad

Best Child Artist:
Divya Chahadkar - Antarnad

Best Male Playback Singer: Gurdas Mann

Best Female Playback Singer:
Aarti Anklekar Tikekar

Award for the Best Book on Cinema
Jerry Pinto - Helen

Award for an Insightful and Witty Account of a Marginal Yet Iconic Persona of the Hindi cinema:
The Life and Times of an H Bomb

Best Film Critic:
G P Ramachandran (Malayalam) and Rafique A R Baghdadi (English)