<page_title> National Film Award for Best Screenplay </page_title> <section_title> Winners </section_title> <table> <cell> 2011 (59th) <col_header> List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation </col_header> <col_header> Year </col_header> <col_header> Ashish Burman </col_header> <col_header> Shyam Benegal </col_header> <col_header> Girish Karnad </col_header> <col_header> T. S. Nagabharana </col_header> <col_header> Saeed Akhtar Mirza </col_header> <col_header> Nina Arora </col_header> <col_header> Shridhar Raghavan </col_header> <col_header> Manoj Tyagi </col_header> <col_header> Rajkumar Hirani </col_header> <col_header> Vidhu Vinod Chopra </col_header> <col_header> Harikrishna </col_header> <col_header> Gopal Krishan Pai </col_header> <col_header> Girish Kasaravalli </col_header> <col_header> Pandiraj </col_header> <col_header> Anant Mahadevan </col_header> <col_header> Sanjay Pawar </col_header> <col_header> Sanjay Pawar </col_header> </cell> <cell> Girish Kulkarni <col_header> List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation </col_header> <col_header> Year </col_header> <col_header> Ashish Burman </col_header> <col_header> Shyam Benegal </col_header> <col_header> Girish Karnad </col_header> <col_header> T. S. Nagabharana </col_header> <col_header> Saeed Akhtar Mirza </col_header> <col_header> Nina Arora </col_header> <col_header> Shridhar Raghavan </col_header> <col_header> Manoj Tyagi </col_header> <col_header> Rajkumar Hirani </col_header> <col_header> Vidhu Vinod Chopra </col_header> <col_header> Harikrishna </col_header> <col_header> Gopal Krishan Pai </col_header> <col_header> Girish Kasaravalli </col_header> <col_header> Pandiraj </col_header> <col_header> Anant Mahadevan </col_header> <col_header> Sanjay Pawar </col_header> <col_header> Sanjay Pawar </col_header> <col_header> Nitesh Tiwari </col_header> <col_header> Vijay Maurya </col_header> <col_header> Avinash Deshpande Nigdi </col_header> </cell> <cell> Deool <col_header> List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation </col_header> <col_header> Recipient(s) </col_header> <col_header> S. L. Puram Sadanandan </col_header> <col_header> Pandit Anand Kumar </col_header> <col_header> Puttanna Kanagal </col_header> <col_header> Satyajit Ray </col_header> <col_header> Tapan Sinha </col_header> <col_header> Gulzar </col_header> <col_header> Mrinal Sen </col_header> <col_header> Satyajit Ray </col_header> <col_header> Vijay Tendulkar </col_header> <col_header> Satyadev Dubey </col_header> <col_header> T. S. Ranga </col_header> <col_header> Sai Paranjpye </col_header> <col_header> Mrinal Sen </col_header> <col_header> K. Balachander </col_header> <col_header> Mrinal Sen </col_header> <col_header> G. V. Iyer </col_header> <col_header> Adoor Gopalakrishnan </col_header> <col_header> Bhabendra Nath Saikia </col_header> <col_header> Buddhadeb Dasgupta </col_header> <col_header> Adoor Gopalakrishnan </col_header> <col_header> Arundhati Roy </col_header> <col_header> M. T. Vasudevan Nair </col_header> <col_header> K. S. Sethumadhavan </col_header> <col_header> M. T. Vasudevan Nair </col_header> <col_header> M. T. Vasudevan Nair </col_header> <col_header> Satyajit Ray (Posthumously) </col_header> <col_header> M. T. Vasudevan Nair </col_header> <col_header> Ashok Mishra </col_header> <col_header> Agathiyan </col_header> <col_header> Rituparno Ghosh </col_header> <col_header> Ashok Mishra </col_header> <col_header> Madampu Kunjukuttan </col_header> <col_header> P. Bharathiraja </col_header> <col_header> G. Neelakanta Reddy </col_header> <col_header> Aparna Sen </col_header> <col_header> Gautam Ghose </col_header> <col_header> Manoj Tyagi </col_header> <col_header> Prakash Jha </col_header> <col_header> Abhijat Joshi </col_header> <col_header> Feroz Abbas Khan </col_header> <col_header> Sachin Kundalkar </col_header> <col_header> P. F. Mathews </col_header> <col_header> Vetrimaaran </col_header> <col_header> Vikas Bahl </col_header> <row_header> Girish Kulkarni </row_header> </cell> <cell> Marathi <col_header> List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation </col_header> <col_header> Film(s) </col_header> <row_header> Girish Kulkarni </row_header> </cell> </table>
At the 59th National Film Awards in 2011, Girish Kulkarni received the National Film Award for the Marathi film Deool.