56th National Awards

The National Film Awards for the year 2008 was announced and Bollywood has bagged the cakes as much as 13 awards, Priyanka Chopra tops with the best actress award for the film "Fashion". Best Actor award to Upendra Limaye for Marathi Film "Jogva". And the Best Director award was won by the evergreen movie maker Bala for his movie "Naan Kadavul". The best feature film was won by "Antaheen". The other achivements are as follows,

Best Supporting Actor _ Arjun Rampal for Rock On!!
Best Supporting Actress – Kangana Ranaut for Fashion
Best Hindi Film Award – Rock On!!
Best Choreography – Chinni Prakash and Rekha Prakash for Jodha Akbar (Azeem-o-shaan shehenshah)
Best Costume Designer – Neeta Lulla for Jodha Akbar
Indira Gandhi award for Best First Film of a director – Neeraj Pandey’s ‘A Wednesday’
Best Animation Film – Yash Raj Films’ ‘Roadside Romeo’
Best Editing – A. Sreekar Prasad for Firaaq
Best Art Director – Gautam Sen for Firaaq
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
Best Special Effects – Govardhan for Mumbai Meri Jaan
Best Children’s Film – Gubbachigalu Kannada
Best Child Artist – Shams Patel for Thanks Maa
Best Male Singer – Hari Haran
Best Felmale Singer – Shreya Ghoshal
Best Feature Film in each of the language specified in the Schedule VIII of the constitution’ category –
Best Tamil Film – Vaaranam Aayiram
Best Assamese Film – Mon Jai
Best Bengali Film – Shob Charitro Kalponik
Best Hindi Film – Rock On
Best Kannada Film – Vimukthi
Best Malayalam Film- Thirakkada
Best Marathi Film – Harishchandrachi Factory
Best Telugu Film – 1940 Lookagramam