The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest and most prestigious award given to film personalities for "outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema". The award was instituted in 1969 in honor of Dadasaheb Phalke, an Indian filmmaker who is considered the "father of Indian cinema". The annual award is presented by the Directorate of Film Festivals at the National Film Awards ceremony. Dadasaheb directed Raja Harishchandra, India's first full-length feature film and released in 1913.
List of Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners
S. No.
|
Name
|
Year
|
|---|---|---|
1
|
Devika Rani
|
1969
|
2
|
Virendra Nath Sarkar
|
1970
|
3
|
Prithviraj Kapoor
|
1971
|
4
|
Pankaj Malik
|
1972
|
5
|
Ruby Myers (Sulochana)
|
1973
|
6
|
Bomireddy Narasimha Rao
|
1974
|
7
|
Dhirendra Nath Ganguly
|
1975
|
8
|
Kannan Devi
|
1976
|
9
|
Nitin Bose
|
1977
|
10
|
Raichand Bodal
|
1978
|
11
|
Sohrab Modi
|
1979
|
12
|
Jayaraj
|
1980
|
13
|
Naushad
|
1981
|
14
|
LV Prasad
|
1982
|
15
|
Durga Khote
|
1983
|
16
|
Satyajit Ray
|
1984
|
17
|
V Shantaram
|
1985
|
18
|
B. Nagi Reddy
|
1986
|
19
|
Raj Kapoor
|
1987
|
20
|
Ashok Kumar
|
1988
|
21
|
Lata Mangeshkar
|
1989
|
22
|
Akkineni Nageswara Rao
|
1990
|
23
|
Bhalji Pandharkar
|
1991
|
24
|
Bhupen Hazarika
|
1992
|
25
|
Majrooh Sultanpuri
|
1993
|
26
|
Dilip Kumar
|
1994
|
27
|
Rajkumar (Kannada)
|
1995
|
28
|
Shivaji Ganesan
|
1996
|
29
|
Poet Pradeep
|
1997
|
30
|
BR Chopra
|
1998
|
31
|
Rishikesh Mukherjee
|
1999
|
32
|
Asha Bhosle
|
2000
|
33
|
Yash Chopra
|
2001
|
34
|
Dev Anand
|
2002
|
35
|
Mrinal Sen
|
2003
|
36
|
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
|
2004
|
37
|
Shyam Benegal
|
2005
|
38
|
Tapan Sinha
|
2006
|
39
|
Manna day
|
2007
|
40
|
VK Murthy
|
2008
|
41
|
D. Ramanaidu
|
2009
|
42
|
The Balachander
|
2010
|
43
|
Soumitra Chatterjee
|
2011
|
44
|
Pran
|
2012
|
45
|
Gulzar
|
2013
|
46
|
Shashi Kapoor
|
2014
|
47
|
Manoj Kumar
|
2015
|
48
|
K. Vishwanath
|
2016
|
49
|
Vinod Khanna
|
2017
|
50
|
Amitabh Bachchan
|
2018
|
