<page_title> National Film Award for Best Direction </page_title> <section_title> Winners </section_title> <table> <cell> 2017 (65th) <col_header> Year </col_header> <col_header> Girish Karnad </col_header> </cell> <cell> Jayaraj <col_header> Recipient </col_header> <col_header> Satyajit Ray </col_header> <col_header> Satyajit Ray </col_header> <col_header> Mrinal Sen </col_header> <col_header> Satyajit Ray </col_header> <col_header> B. V. Karanth </col_header> <col_header> Adoor Gopalakrishnan </col_header> <col_header> Mani Kaul </col_header> <col_header> Satyajit Ray </col_header> <col_header> Satyajit Ray </col_header> <col_header> P. Lankesh </col_header> <col_header> G. Aravindan </col_header> <col_header> G. Aravindan </col_header> <col_header> Mrinal Sen </col_header> <col_header> Mrinal Sen </col_header> <col_header> Aparna Sen </col_header> <col_header> Utpalendu Chakrabarty </col_header> <col_header> Mrinal Sen </col_header> <col_header> Adoor Gopalakrishnan </col_header> <col_header> Shyam Benegal </col_header> <col_header> G. Aravindan </col_header> <col_header> Adoor Gopalakrishnan </col_header> <col_header> Shaji N. Karun </col_header> <col_header> Adoor Gopalakrishnan </col_header> <col_header> Tapan Sinha </col_header> <col_header> Satyajit Ray </col_header> <col_header> Goutom Ghosh </col_header> <col_header> T. V. Chandran </col_header> <col_header> Jahnu Barua </col_header> <col_header> Saeed Akhtar Mirza </col_header> <col_header> Agathiyan </col_header> <col_header> Jayaraj </col_header> <col_header> Rajeevnath </col_header> <col_header> Buddhadeb Dasgupta </col_header> <col_header> Rituparno Ghosh </col_header> <col_header> B. Lenin </col_header> <col_header> Aparna Sen </col_header> <col_header> Goutom Ghosh </col_header> <col_header> Buddhadeb Dasgupta </col_header> <col_header> Rahul Dholakia </col_header> <col_header> Madhur Bhandarkar </col_header> <col_header> Adoor Gopalakrishnan </col_header> <col_header> Bala </col_header> <col_header> Rituparno Ghosh </col_header> <col_header> Vetrimaaran </col_header> <col_header> Gurvinder Singh </col_header> <col_header> Shivaji Lotan Patil </col_header> <col_header> Hansal Mehta </col_header> <col_header> Srijit Mukherji </col_header> <col_header> Sanjay Leela Bhansali </col_header> <col_header> Rajesh Mapuskar </col_header> </cell> <cell> Bhayanakam <col_header> Film </col_header> <row_header> Jayaraj </row_header> </cell> <cell> Malayalam <col_header> Language </col_header> <row_header> Jayaraj </row_header> </cell> </table>
Jayaraj was honoured with the National Film Award for Best Direction at the 65th National Film Awards for directing the Malayalam film Bhayanakam.