The National Film Award for Best Child Artist 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 Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal). The award was instituted in 1968, at 16th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. The actors whose performances have won awards have worked in eleven major languages. Hindi (24 awards), Tamil (14 awards), Malayalam (13 awards), Marathi (9 awards), Kannada (7 awards), Bengali (6 awards), Telugu (3 awards), Meitei (1 award), Konkani (1 award), Assamese (1 award), Odia (1 award).

Winners

Award includes 'Silver Lotus' (Rajat Kamal) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years: