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PIFF Distinguished Awardees

We honour two eminent film personalities with the PIFF Distinguished Award for Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema. The purpose of the award is to appreciate and applaud the work of legends working in cinema, and to relive their life and times through numerous interactions with them.
Over the years, eminent film personalities from various regions and different streams of filmmaking have been chosen for the award. Recipients have come from regional film industries as well as from Bollywood.


Year PIFF Distinguished award for outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema Awardees
22nd PIFF, 2024     Smt Leela Gandhi
Shri Ameen Sayani
Shri Goutam Ghose
21st PIFF, 2023     Manoj Kumar
Enoch Daniels
19th PIFF, 2020     Ashok Saraf
18th PIFF, 2020     B. P. Singh
Vikram Gokhale
17th PIFF, 2019     Dilip Prabhavalkar
Govind Nihalani
16th PIFF, 2018     Ramesh Prasad
Ramesh Sippy
Raj Dutt
15th PIFF, 2017     Aparna Sen
Seema Deo
14th PIFF, 2016     Soumitra Chatterjee
Shyam Benegal
13th PIFF, 2015     N. D. Mahanor
Shatrughan Sinha
Tanuja Mukerjee
Krzysztof Zanussi
12th PIFF, 2014     Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Vinod Khanna
11th PIFF, 2013     Ramesh Deo
Jeetendra
10th PIFF, 2012     Amitabh Bachchan
Asha Bhosale
9th  PIFF, 2011     Shashikala
Saira Banu
8th  PIFF, 2010     Shriram Lagoo
Rajesh Khanna
7th  PIFF, 2009     Shashi Kapoor
Sulochana Didi
Hema Malini
6th  PIFF, 2008    Sharmila Tagore
Shammi Kapoor
5th  PIFF, 2007    Asha Parekh
Dharmendra
4th  PIFF, 2006    Vyjayantimala
Yash Chopra
Victor Kemper
3rd  PIFF, 2005    Waheeda Rehman
Shakti Samanta
2nd  PIFF, 2003     Lata Mangeshkar
Dev Anand
1st  PIFF, 2002    Mrinal Sen
Dilip Kumar