Bollywood shone bright at the National Film Awards for 2005 with superstar Amitabh Bachchan bagging the Best Actor award for his sensitive portrayal of a reformed alcoholic who gives meaning to the life of a physically handicapped child in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Black’.

Sarika was adjudged Best Actress for 'Parzania' while Buddhadeb Dasgupta's 'Kaalpurush' won the Best Feature Film award. 'Parzania' also fetched the Best director award for its director Rahul Dholakia.

'Rang De Basanti', which was India's entry to the Oscars last year, won four awards - the award for the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment, Best Male Playback Singer for Naresh Iyer, Best Audiography and Best Editing.

Among the other Bollywood films that figured in the list of awards, Vishal Bharadwaj 's 'Blue Umbrella' was adjudged the Best Children's Film, while Nagesh Kukunoor's 'Iqbal' won the award for the Best Film on Social Issues. Pradeep Sarkar's period piece ‘Parineeta’ bagged the Indira Gandhi award for Best First Film by a director and the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration when to the Malayalam film ‘Daivanamathil.’

Playback singer Shreya Ghoshal won the Best Female Playback Singer award for her song in Paheli while Prakash Jha's 'Apharan' won the Best screenplay award for screenplay writers Prakash Jha, Shridhar Raghavan and Manoj Tyagi.

The award for Best Art Direction went to C B More for the period film ‘Taj Mahal - An Eternal Love Story'. Best costume designer was bagged jointly to Anna Singh for 'Taj Mahal- An Eternal Love Story and Sabyasachi Mukherjee for 'Black'.

Anupam Kher won the Special Jury Award for his role in the film Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara.

Among other awards, the award for the Best Child Artist went to Sai Kumar for his performance in Telugu Film 'Bommalata - a bellyful of dreams', while the award for the Best Non-Feature Film was bagged by 'Riding Solo to the top of the world' (English), directed by Gaurav A Jani.

The award for Best Choreography went to Saroj for the Tamil film ‘Sringaram’.

The best films in different Indian languages are: Asomese (‘Kadam Tole Krishna Nache’) directed by Suman Haripriya, Bengali (‘Harbart’) by Suman Mukherji, Kannada (‘Thaayi’) by Baraguru Ramchandrappa, Malayalam (‘Thanmantra’) by Blessy, Marathi (‘Dombivali Fast’) by Minishikant Kamat, Oriya (‘Katahntara’) by Himanshu Khatua, Punjabi (‘Baghi’) by Sukhminder Dhanjal, Telegu (‘Bommalata’) by Prakash Kovelamudi, Tamil (‘Aaadum Kothu’) by TV Chandran.

The awards announcement was delayed for two years after a jury member went to court with the complaint that the awards had been ‘fixed’ by the authorities. The petition was finally dismissed few days back and the much-awaited results are finally out.