Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Award Information
Category	Indian Cinema
Description	Lifetime Achievement award
Instituted	1969
First awarded	1969
Last awarded	2012
Total awarded	43
Awarded by	Govt. of India
Cash award	10,00,000
Medal	Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal)
First awardee(s)	Devika Rani
Recent awardee(s)	Soumitra Chatterjee

Recipients

List of award recipients, showing the year and profession(s)
Year (Award Ceremony)		Recipient	Awarded as
1969 (17th)		Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich[3]	Actress
1970 (18th)		B. N. Sircar[4]	Producer
1971 (19th)		Prithviraj Kapoor[5]	Actor (Awarded posthumously)
1972 (20th)		Pankaj Mullick[6]	Music Director
1973 (21st)		Ruby Myers (Sulochana)[7]	Actress
1974 (22nd)		Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy[8]	Director
1975 (23rd)		Dhirendranath Ganguly[9]	Actor, Director
1976 (24th)		Kanan Devi[5]	Actress
1977 (25th)		Nitin Bose[10]	Cinematographer, Director,Screenwriter
1978 (26th)		Raichand Boral[11]	Music Director, Director
1979 (27th)		Sohrab Modi[5]	Actor, Director, Producer
1980 (28th)		Paidi Jairaj[12]	Actor, Director
1981 (29th)		Naushad[13]	Music Director
1982 (30th)		L. V. Prasad[14]	Actor, Director, Producer
1983 (31st)		Durga Khote[15]	Actress
1984 (32nd)		Satyajit Ray[16]	Director
1985 (33rd)		V. Shantaram[17]	Actor, Director, Producer
1986 (34th)		Bommireddy Nagi Reddy[18]	Producer
1987 (35th)		Raj Kapoor[19]	Actor, Director, Producer
1988 (36th)		Ashok Kumar[20]	Actor
1989 (37th)		Lata Mangeshkar[21]	Playback singer
1990 (38th)		Akkineni Nageswara Rao[22]	Actor
1991 (39th)		Bhalji Pendharkar[23]	Director, Producer, Screenwriter
1992 (40th)		Bhupen Hazarika[24]	Musician, singer, poet, filmmaker, lyricist
1993 (41st)		Majrooh Sultanpuri[5]	Lyricist
1994 (42nd)		Dilip Kumar[5]	Actor
1995 (43rd)		Rajkumar[5]	Actor, Singer
1996 (44th)		Sivaji Ganesan[25]	Actor
1997 (45th)		Pradeep[26]	Lyricist
1998 (46th)		B. R. Chopra[27]	Director, Producer
1999 (47th)		Hrishikesh Mukherjee[28]	Director
2000 (48th)		Asha Bhosle[29]	Playback Singer
2001 (49th)		Yash Chopra[30]	Director, Producer
2002 (50th)		Dev Anand[31]	Actor, Director, Producer
2003 (51st)		Mrinal Sen[32]	Director
2004 (52nd)		Adoor Gopalakrishnan[33]	Director
2005 (53rd)		Shyam Benegal[34]	Director
2006 (54th)		Tapan Sinha[35]	Director
2007 (55th)		Manna Dey[36]	Playback singer
2008 (56th)		V. K. Murthy[37]	Cinematographer
2009 (57th)		D. Ramanaidu[38]	Producer, Director
2010 (58th)		K. Balachander[39]	Director
2011 (59th)		Soumitra Chatterjee[40]	Actor