<page_title> National Film Award for Best Screenplay </page_title> <section_title> Winners </section_title> <table> <cell> 1970 (18th) <col_header> List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation </col_header> <col_header> Year </col_header> </cell> <cell> Satyajit Ray <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> </cell> <cell> Pratidwandi <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> Satyajit Ray </row_header> </cell> <cell> 1974 (22nd) <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> </cell> <cell> Satyajit Ray <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> </cell> <cell> Sonar Kella <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> Satyajit Ray </row_header> </cell> <cell> 1993 (41st) <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> </cell> <cell> Satyajit Ray (Posthumously) <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> </cell> <cell> Uttoran <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> Satyajit Ray (Posthumously) </row_header> </cell> <cell> Bengali <col_header> List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation </col_header> <col_header> Language(s) </col_header> <row_header> Satyajit Ray (Posthumously) </row_header> </cell> </table>
Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray was presented the award in 1993 posthumously for the film Uttoran and he had earlier received awards for Pratidwandi (1970) and Sonar Kella (1974).