Akshay Kumar has become only the 16th Hindi film actor to win the National Award. Only 23 performances in Hindi films have won the National Award for Best Actor. Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan has won the most number of awards for his performance in films like Agneepath, Black, Paa and Piku.
Sanjeev Kumar, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah and Ajay Devgn are the only actors to win 2 awards each.
The iconic trio of Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan have never won a National Award. Shah Rukh was the leading contender in 2003, but his performance in Swades was overlooked and Saif Ali Khan’s performance in Hum Tum was declared the winner.
Hrithik Roshan too was expected to win the National Award for his incredible act in Koi Mil Gaya, but Tamil actor Vikram won the award that year for his film Pithamagan.
Check out the full list of Hindi film performance that have won the National Award for Best Actor:
| Year | Actor | Movie |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Ashok Kumar | Aashirwad |
| 1969 | Utpal Dutt | Bhuvan Shome |
| 1970 | Sanjeev Kumar | Dastak |
| 1972 | Sanjeev Kumar | Koshish |
| 1974 | Sadhu Meher | Ankur |
| 1976 | Mithun Chakraborty | Mrigayaa |
| 1979 | Naseeruddin Shah | Sparsh |
| 1981 | Om Puri | Arohan |
| 1983 | Om Puri | Ardh Satya |
| 1984 | Naseeruddin Shah | Paar |
| 1985 | Shashi Kapoor | New Delhi Times |
| 1990 | Amitabh Bachchan | Agneepath |
| 1994 | Nana Patekar | Krantiveer |
| 1998 | Ajay Devgn | Zakhm |
| 2000 | Anil Kapoor | Pukar |
| 2002 | Ajay Devgn | The Legend of Bhagat Singh |
| 2004 | Saif Ali Khan | Hum Tum |
| 2005 | Amitabh Bachchan | Black |
| 2009 | Amitabh Bachchan | Paa |
| 2012 | Irrfan Khan | Paan Singh Tomar |
| 2013 | Rajkummar Rao | Shahid |
| 2015 | Amitabh Bachchan | Piku |
| 2016 | Akshay Kumar | Rustom |
| Year | Actor | Movie | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Uttam Kumar | Antony Firingee, Chiriyakhana | Bengali |
| 1968 | Ashok Kumar | Aashirwad | Hindi |
| 1969 | Utpal Dutt | Bhuvan Shome | Hindi |
| 1970 | Sanjeev Kumar | Dastak | Hindi |
| 1971 | M. G. Ramachandran | Rickshawkaran | Tamil |
| 1972 | Sanjeev Kumar | Koshish | Hindi |
| 1973 | P. J. Antony | Nirmalyam | Malayalam |
| 1974 | Sadhu Meher | Ankur | Hindi |
| 1975 | M. V. Vasudeva Rao | Chomana Dudi | Kannada |
| 1976 | Mithun Chakraborty | Mrigayaa | Hindi |
| 1977 | Bharath Gopi | Kodiyettam | Malayalam |
| 1978 | Arun Mukherjee | Parasuram | Bengali |
| 1979 | Naseeruddin Shah | Sparsh | Hindi |
| 1980 | Balan K. Nair | Oppol | Malayalam |
| 1981 | Om Puri | Arohan | Hindi |
| 1982 | Kamal Haasan | Moondram Pirai | Tamil |
| 1983 | Om Puri | Ardh Satya | Hindi |
| 1984 | Naseeruddin Shah | Paar | Hindi |
| 1985 | Shashi Kapoor | New Delhi Times | Hindi |
| 1986 | Charuhasan | Tabarana Kathe | Kannada |
| 1987 | Kamal Haasan | Nayagan | Tamil |
| 1988 | Premji | Piravi | Malayalam |
| 1989 | Mammootty |  • Mathilukal | Malayalam |
| 1990 | Amitabh Bachchan | Agneepath | Hindi |
| 1991 | Mohanlal | Bharatham | Malayalam |
| 1992 | Mithun Chakraborty | Tahader Katha | Bengali |
| 1993 | Mammootty |  • Ponthan Mada | Malayalam |
| 1994 | Nana Patekar | Krantiveer | Hindi |
| 1995 | Rajit Kapur | The Making of the Mahatma | English |
| 1996 | Kamal Haasan | Indian | Tamil |
| 1997 | Balachandra Menon | Samaantharangal | Malayalam |
| 1997 | Suresh Gopi | Kaliyattam | Malayalam |
| 1998 | Ajay Devgn | Zakhm | Hindi |
| 1998 | Mammootty | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar | English |
| 1999 | Mohanlal | Vanaprastham | Malayalam |
| 2000 | Anil Kapoor | Pukar | Hindi |
| 2001 | Murali | Neythukaran | Malayalam |
| 2002 | Ajay Devgn | The Legend of Bhagat Singh | Hindi |
| 2003 | Vikram | Pithamagan | Tamil |
| 2004 | Saif Ali Khan | Hum Tum | Hindi |
| 2005 | Amitabh Bachchan | Black | Hindi |
| 2006 | Soumitra Chatterjee | Podokkhep | Bengali |
| 2007 | Prakash Raj | Kanchivaram | Tamil |
| 2008 | Upendra Limaye | Jogwa | Marathi |
| 2009 | Amitabh Bachchan | Paa | Hindi |
| 2010 | Dhanush | Aadukalam | Tamil |
| 2010 | Salim Kumar | Adaminte Makan Abu | Malayalam |
| 2011 | Girish Kulkarni | Deool | Marathi |
| 2012 | Irrfan Khan | Paan Singh Tomar | Hindi |
| 2012 | Vikram Gokhale | Anumati | Marathi |
| 2013 | Rajkummar Rao | Shahid | Hindi |
| 2013 | Suraj Venjaramoodu | Perariyathavar | Malayalam |
| 2015 | Amitabh Bachchan | Piku | Hindi |
| 2016 | Akshay Kumar | Rustom | Hindi |
Akashya kumar never deserve the national award for rustom . I didn’t believe movie like , Lagan , swadesh and chak de india didn’t get any award . shame on jury . every time fake desh bhakti wala waiter saying I didn’t believe an award now what does he say .
“Jo Aadmi Jiska Deserve karta hai usko vahi milata hai”
So does AKSHAY KUMAR.
congrats Akki for the feat….
Due to heavy demand there is scarcity for burnol…Dear modi plz supply abundantly till next national award…
@indicine Akshay Kumar has won it for 2 different movies Airlift and Rustom…
I can find some legendary names here like Uttam Kumar(Mahanayak) Utpal Dutt Amitabh Bacchan.
Hrithik deserves for Jodha Akbar or Guzarish, KMG was Debatable…
Even he is the only actor to won International Award For BEST Actor after BigB for his Performance In JODHA AKBAR
Akshay for RUSTOM is totally non deserving even now Priyadarshan is covering it by saying award is for both Airlift and Rustom lol..
SRK deserves for Swadesh and Aamir and this year Aamir deserve for DANGAL
Only reason Akki get bcoz Priyadarshan was jury only member…
Acc to me, HRITHIK, AJAY, AAMIR and SRK r the actors who r most versatile and done several challenging roles in their career like DANGAL, PK, KMG, GUZARISH, JODHA AKBAR, KAABIL, FAN, MNIK, LEGEND OF BHAGAT SINGH, ZAKHM, etc
Akshay can do comedy, action and romance doesn’t mean he is most versatile actor even Varun can do that.
Akki did one challenging role recently in last 8-10 years of SHOHAIB in OUATIMD and Failed Badly to show his versatility
Otherwise his roles r straight and simple, love him in comedy tho…
Dont know about others, in my personal opinion I thoroughly enjoyed Rustom
wanted rustom or airlift any one of them to win a filmfare award but winning a national award makes all Akkians truly proud and ecstatic.
A big thank you to indicine for updating the comments quickly in last three articles of Akki, seems hater are full in house. popcorn moment for Akkians
@ Aamir Khan,
Abey Psychopurian (Fan of Psycho Tingu Khan), What You said Akki is a fake patriotic?
So, The So Called Fake Patriotic has opened self defence academies for women empowerment, he has opened several karate academies all over India, He has been top tax payer since 2008, He has been donating money to martyrs’ families, He has been helping to poor farmers and had adopted few villages which were drough affected, He has intiated for making an app for soldiers and requested to the Indian Govt. for the same for helping soldiers by depositing amount and recently Govt. has given approval to it, He has been doing regular visits to Indian Army and to their family, He has started picking those scripts which have messages i.e. for terrorism, for corruption, for Open Defecation, for Indian Navy, for Indian Law, etc…
What your so called actor has done in his entire life?
Leave him, He is an actor at least, What You have done for this country so far?
Tum logo ki aadat hai, Khud se aur Tumhare so called actor se kuchh hota jata hai nahi lekin, JO BANDA KUCHH KAR RAHA HAI, USKE UNGLI ZARUR KARNI HOTI HAI TUM LOGO KO…
First do any one thing what Akki has done till date then blabber here, You Moron…
Aur haan, Ek baat aur, Whatever Akki has done, 95% Indians couldn’t have done… Indicine told it few months backkk… Rawana ho, Dhakkan…
rustom wasn’t a bad film, it had a plot, a story and suspense, akki’s performace was very good, but airlift was a better choice imo. sometimes juries also look at performance in a film and not just the film. aamir’s performace in dangal was good but the actress in the film was more deserving imo.
from the list of winners over the years, you can see with clarity that na is by far the most fair awards in india, look at thw number of regional winners and say to me its not fair. I’m proud because all the awards this year blatantly ignored him, not a single nomination, and then he comes of a this piece of jewel to slap them in the face.
Haters burning like hell, according to these guys national awards are given for showing Desh Bhakti to your country.
@ABC, yes sir a waiter has won a National Award today, but you loser have still remained a loser in your life?
If you guys think he bought national award, answer a simple question who is stopping all your favourite stars who have bought those chote-mote awards from buying National Award all these years?
@indicine Aamir Khan won the National award in special mention category for Raakh and QSQT. Please update.
national award is much better than filmfake awards at least they are not only gave awards to the superstars and big hit films so plz don’t compare national award with this fake awards
Abhishek akki sir deserves national award for rustom&airlift more than any one this year and according to you akki sir failed to show his versatility but every one know akki one of the most versatility actor in bollywood and Hrithik is no were close to akki when it is coming to versatility you need to put that in your little mind
@Wicked sunny
Wohi to “Dear Modiji.”
Dear modi dear yogi kehte te to mila tere akki ko iss 2.5 rated film ke liye award.
Some morons are talking about festive releases:
Garam masala-Deeewali
Aitraaz-Deewali
Ab tumhare hawale watan sathiho-Christmas
Tees maar khan-Christmas
Jaaneman-Deewali
Blue-Deewali
Welcome-christmas
Aur kitna holiday chaiye? Akki has more festives than Aamir.
people need to know akki sir winning national award for both airlift&rustom I know there are also other good Performance this year like aamir in dangal Manoj in aligarh & sushant for msd but akki is also deserving to win not just for one but for two of the best Performances last year and his Performances in airlift is without doubt is one of the best last year
This has to do with his fake patriotism which he is using to deceive the illiterate masses.
Congratulations,Akki Bhai!
#But honestly speaking his Airlift acting was better than that in Rustom
#Overall in the last year,performance wise Sushant in ‘Dhoni’ and SRK in’ Fan ‘were much better.
#It was little ‘hatke’ to find a non-Hindi movie in wholesome entertainment category.
It proves again that a little bit of Luck n jury’s approach in a particular year may be decider.
Remember SRK ‘s Swadesh debacle against Saif’s win for Hum Tum (Sudhir Mishra better knows why!) !
2017 again flop star akshaya for toilet:ek fraud katha
Internet world is full of gobar kumar’s award winning jokes
He deseved every bit of it more than any other actor this year and manoj bajpai was also a deserving candidate. And glad to know kamal hassan got national award for indian it was a marvellous performance and saif for hum tum was only a undeserving one it is like a black mark on national film awards.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Great update abt Dangal.Reported fig. were only for Taipei.Rest of Taiwan was not incl.Real fig.r 3 times reported.30MNT$(1M$) till second weekend.
30MNT$ till second weekend.Almost 1MUS$ till second weekend.Must have crossed 1.25m$ after second week.Ab china mein kya hoga,bhagwan hi jaane.Screens have been increased to 50 from 16 this weekend.HISTORIC ABSOLUTE HISTORIC.
Highest non aamir starrer SRK’s MNIK-0.046M$.Dangal has done more than 20 times in 10 days.Competing with japanese/hollywood films in taiwan.
Natsamrat Marathi movie…Nana Patekar’s performance was ignored by jury of National awards.
Sorry @ indicine, Srk didn’t do anything great in Swades……..no matter what the media or his fans say.
Srk was brilliant in two films……Darr and Chak De, no doubt on it.
There is always someone who is sort of overlooked, but to win in itself is a great achievement.
But, then there are always exception to anything….and Saif didn’t deserve that award…..that was the crappiest ever decision by National Award Jury.
I dont trust any award anymore now.Srk for Swades,CDI,MNIK,Fan Deserve for national award.Amir For PK,RDB,3I, even Dangal is also my choice.Hritik For KMG.Amitabh ji for Deewar,Paa,Black..But nowdays i dont understand what is this all about If actor acted brillint in movie so i dont think BO should matter Srk should won for Fan more than Dangal but due to fan was flop so award given to amir.For me Srk was best choice or amir but akshay is 100% not better than Srk or Or amir last year…
Outstanding!!his commitment towards work is awardworthy!!amazing
now seculars will say srk should b given….Congress k Raj m nhi Mila to ab kya ghanta milega usko
im sure srk and ajay devgan both jointly won it in 2003?