Dadasaheb Phalke Award Recipients

Dadasaheb Phalke Award is the highest award in Indian Cinema. The award is given annually at the National Film Awards ceremony. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was introduced in 1969 to recognise the contribution of film personalities towards the development of Indian Cinema. The award is named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made the first Indian Feature film Raja Harishchandra in 1913. The award comprises of a Swarna Kamal, a cash Prize of Rupees Ten Lakhs, silk scroll and a shawl.

Dadasaheb Phalke Recipients
Year Recipient Awarded as
1969 Devika Rani Actress
1970 Birendranath Sircar Producer
1971 Prithviraj Kapoor Actor, Director, Producer
1972 Pankaj Mullick Music Director
1973 Ruby Myers Actress
1974 Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy Director
1975 Dhirendranath Ganguly Actor, Director
1976 Kanan Devi Actress
1977 Nitin Bose Director, Screenwriter
1978 Raichand Boral Music Director, Director
1979 Sohrab Modi Actor, Director, Producer
1980 Paidi Jairaj Actor, Director
1981 Naushad Ali Music Director
1982 L. V. Prasad Actor, Director, Producer
1983 Durga Khote Actress
1984 Satyajit Ray Director
1985 V. Shantaram Actor, Director, Producer
1986 Bommireddy Nagi Reddy Producer
1987 Raj Kapoor Actor, Director, Producer
1988 Ashok Kumar Actor
1989 Lata Mangeshkar Playback singer
1990 Akkineni Nageswara Rao Actor
1991 Bhalji Pendharkar Director, Producer, Screenwriter
1992 Bhupen Hazarika Musician, Singer, Lyricist, Filmmaker
1993 Majrooh Sultanpuri Lyricist
1994 Dilip Kumar Actor
1995 Rajkumar Actor, Singer
1996 Sivaji Ganesan Actor
1997 Pradeep Lyricist
1998 B. R. Chopra Director, Producer
1999 Hrishikesh Mukherjee Director
2000 Asha Bhosle Playback Singer
2001 Yash Chopra Director, Producer
2002 Dev Anand Actor, Director, Producer
2003 Mrinal Sen Director
2004 Adoor Gopalakrishnan Director
2005 Shyam Benegal Director
2006 Tapan Sinha Director
2007 Manna Dey Singer
2008 Venkatarama Pandit Krishnamurthy Cinematographer
2009 Daggubati Ramanaidu Producer, Director
2010 K. Balachander Director
2011 Soumitra Chatterjee Actor
2012 Pran Actor
2013 Gulzar Poet, Lyricist, Film director
2014 Shashi Kapoor Actor
2015 Manoj Kumar Actor
2016 Kasinathuni Viswanath Director and Actor
2017 Vinod Khanna Actor
2018 Amitabh Bachchan Actor
2019 Rajinikanth Actor
2020 Asha Parekh Actress
2021 Waheeda Rehman Actress