- Best Actor: The award was jointly given to Mammootty for Bramayugam and Kartik Aaryan for Chandu Champion.
- Best Actress: Yami Gautam won for her performance in Article 370. This was her first National Film Award.
- Best Feature Film: Article 370 received the top feature-film honour.
- The awards are among India’s highest official honours for cinema and recognise excellence in acting, filmmaking, technical work, non-feature films and writing on cinema.
- Article 370 emerged as one of the major winners, while the shared Best Actor award recognised performances from both Hindi and Malayalam cinema.
- Although they are called the 2026 awards, the eligible films were from January 1 to December 31, 2024.
- Mammootty and Kartik Aaryan share Best Actor award; Yami Gautam wins Best Actress, while Article 370 is named Best Feature Film at the 72nd National Film Awards.
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