The National Film Award for Best Editing is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1976, at the 24th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (17 awards), Tamil (12 awards), Malayalam (6 awards), Bengali (4 awards), Telugu (3 awards), English and Assamese (2 awards each), and Kannada, and Marathi (one award each) The editor with the most awards in this category is A. Sreekar Prasad with seven wins.
7 wins : A. Sreekar Prasad
4 wins : Renu Saluja
3 wins :
2 wins : M. S. Mani, Suresh Pai, Kishore Te
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years: