The National Film Award for Best Children’s Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).
The award was instituted in 1954, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for children’s films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada, English, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya and Assamese.