El Premio Académico Sangeet Natak es otorgado por la Academia Nacional de Música, Danza y Drama de la India.
Es el más alto reconocimiento dado a los artistas en activo.El Premio consiste desde el año 2003 en 50 000 rupias Indias, una mención, un chal angavastram y una placa de bronce tamra-patra.Son otorgados en las categorías de música, danza, teatro, otras artes tradicionales y marionetas y la contribución a las artes escénicas.
Acreedores del Premio Música Música clásica indostaní Vocal 1952: Mushtaq Hussain Khan 1953: Kesarbai Kerkar 1954: Rajab Ali Khan 1955: Anant Manohar Joshi 1956: Rajabhaiyya Poonchhwale 1957: Rasoolan Bai 1958: Ganesh Ramachandra Behere 1959: Krishnarao Shankar Pandit 1960: Altaf Hussain Khan 1961: Y. S. Mirashi Buwa 1962: Bade Ghulam Ali Khan 1963: Omkarnath Thakur 1964: Rahimuddin Khan Dagar 1965: Hirabai Barodekar 1966: Siddheswari Devi 1967: Amir Khan 1968: Mogubai Kurdikar 1969: Ramchatur Mallick 1970: Nisar Hussain Khan 1971: Mallikarjun Mansur 1972: Begum Akhtar 1973: Gangubai Hangal 1974: Kumar Gandharva 1975: Bhimsen Joshi 1976: Narayanrao Vyas 1977: Girija Devi 1978: Khadim Hussain Khan 1979: Sarachchandra Arolkar 1980: Nivruttibua Sarnaik 1981: Basavaraj Rajguru 1982: Vasantrao Deshpande 1983: Mahadev Prasad Mishra 1984: Sharafat Hussain Khan 1985: Kishori Amonkar, Aminuddin Dagar 1986: Asgari Bai, Firoz Dastur, Manik Varma 1987: C. R. Vyas, Shobha Gurtu, Pandit Jasraj 1988: Padmavati Gokhale Shaligram 1989: Jitendra Abhisheki 1990: K. G. Ginde, Dhondutai Kulkarni 1991: N. Zahiruddin Dagar, Prabha Atre 1992: Ramarao V. Naik, Shiv Kumar Shukla 1993: Bala Saheb Poochwale, Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar 1994: Sulochana Brahaspati, Zia Fariddudin Dagar 1995: A. Kanan 1996: Dinkar Kaikini, Hafeez Ahmad Khan 1997: L. K. Pandit 1998: Puttaraj Gavaigalu, Parveen Sultana, Rajan and Sajan Mishra 1999-2000: Ajoy Chakraborty, Rita Ganguly, Malabika Kanan 2001: Abhay Narayan Mallick, Sangameshwar Gurav, Malini Rajurkar 2002: Sushila Rani Patel, Sharayu Kalekar 2003: Ghulam Mustafa Waris Khan, Yeshwant Balkrishna Joshi 2004: Balwant Rai Bhatt, Tejpal Singh and Surinder Singh 2005: S. C. R. Bhat, Ramashreya Jha 2006: Vijay Kumar Kichlu, Rashid Khan 2007: Vidyadhar Vyas, Góvardhan Misra 2008: Ulhas Kashalkar, M. R. Gautam 2009: Abdul Rashid Khan, Vasundhara Komkali 2010: Chhannu Lal Mishra, Yashpal
Instrumental Vina/rudra vina/vichitra vina 1969: Dabir Khan 1977: Asad Ali Khan 1981: Zia Mohiuddin Dagar 1994: Gopal Krishan 1995: Ahmad Raza Khan
Bansuri (flauta traversa). 1983: Hari Prasad Chaurasia 1986: Devendra Murdeshwar 1994: Raghunath Seth 2010: Nityanand Haldipur
Guitarra 2005: Brij Bhushan Kabra
Armonio 1999-2000: Appa Jalgaonkar 2005: Tulsidas Vasant Borkar
Pakhawaj 1955: Govind Rao Burhanpurkar 1965: Sakharam Tavde 1967: Ayodhya Prasad 1978: Purushottam Das 1988: Ramshankardas Pagaldas 1991: Chatrapati Singh 1993: Gopaldas Panse 1995: Ram Ashish Pathak 2003: Bhawani Shankar
Santur 1986: Shivkumar Sharma 1993: Bhajan Sopori
Sarangi 1966: Shakoor Khan, 1975: Ram Narayan 1976: Gopal Misra 1986: Sabri Khan 1988: Hanuman Prasad Mishra 1990: Abdul Lateef Khan 1992: Sultan Khan 1996: Inderlal Dhandra 2008: Ramesh Mishra
Sarod 1952: Allauddin Khan 1953: Hafiz Ali Khan 1963: Ali Akbar Khan 1971: Radhika Mohan Maitra 1986: Sharan Rani Backliwal 1988: Zarin Sharma 1989: Amjad Ali Khan 1993: Buddhadev Das Gupta 1999-2000: Rajeev Taranath 2004: Aashish Khan
Shehnai 1956: Bismillah Khan 1985: Ali Hussain Khan 1989: Anant Lal 1996: Raghunath Prasanna 2008: Krishna Ram Chaudhary 2009: Ali Ahmad Hussain
Sitar 1958: Yusuf Ali 1960: Wahid Khan 1962: Ravi Shankar 1968: Mustaq Ali Khan 1974: Nikhil Banerjee 1987: Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, Imrat Khan (también en surbahar). 1989: Balram Pathak 1992: Uma Shankar Mishra 1994: Shamim Ahmed Khan 1996: Debu Chaudhuri 2001: Mani Lal Nag 2003: Arvind Parikh 2006: Shahid Parvez 2010: Budhaditya Mukherjee
Surbahar 1991: Annapurna Devi
Tablá 1954: Ahmed Jan Thirakwa 1959: Jahangir Khan 1961: Kanthe Maharaj 1970: Masit Khan 1976: Karamatulla Khan 1979: Samta Prasad Maharaj 1982: Alla Rakha 1984: Kishan Maharaj 1990: Zakir Hussain 1991: Shaikh Dawood 1997: Swapan Chaudhuri, Lalji Gokhale 1998: Pandharinath Gangadhar Nageshkar 1999-2000: Shankar Ghosh 2002: Suresh B. Gaitonde, Anindo Chatterjee 2004: Suresh Talwalkar 2006: Kumar Bose 2007: Nandan Mehta 2009: Lachman Singh Seen
Violín 1972: Gajananrao Joshi 1980: V. G. Jog 1990: N. Rajam 1995: D. K. Datar 1997: Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury 2007: Ramoo Prasad Shastri
Música carnática Vocal 1952: Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar 1953: Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer 1954: Mysore K. Vasudevacharya 1955: Maharajapuram Vishwanatha Iyer 1956: M. S. Subbulakshmi 1957: Musiri Subramania Iyer 1958: Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar 1959: G. N. Balasubramaniam 1960: Madurai Mani Iyer 1961: Mudikondan C. Venkatarama Iyer 1962: D. K. Pattammal 1963: B. Devendrappa 1964: Chittoor S. Subramanyam 1965: T. Brinda 1966: M. R. Srirengam Iyengar 1967: C. Venkata Rao 1968: Alathur Srinivasa Iyer 1969: Dandapani Desigar 1970: M. L. Vasanthakumari 1971: N. Channakeshaviah 1972: T. Muktha 1973: B. S. Raja Iyengar 1974: M. D. Ramanathan 1975: M. Balamurali Krishna 1976: K. V. Narayanaswamy 1977: Sripada Pinakapani 1978: Madurai S. Somasundaram 1979: R K Srikanthan 1980: Seerkhazhi S. Govindarajan 1981: Radha and Jayalakshmi 1982: T. M. Thiagarajan 1983: D. K. Jayaraman 1984: Maharajapuram V. Santhanam 1985: Voleti Venkatesvarulu 1986: B. Rajam Iyer 1986: Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy 1987: Madurai N. Krishnan 1987: Mani Krishnaswami 1988: Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana 1989: Titte Krishna Iyengar 1990: T. V. Sankaranarayanan 1991: S. Rajam 1992: K. R. Kumaraswamy Iyer 1993: Trichy Swaminathan Iyer 1994: C. S. Krishna Iyer 1995: R. Vedavalli 1996: T. K. Govinda Rao 1997: M. S. Balasubramanya Sarma 2002: T. R. Subramanyam 2003: Trichur V. Ramachandran, M. A. Narasimhachar 2004: Thiruvengadu A. Jayaraman, C. Saroja & C. Lalitha 2005: S. V. Parthasarrathy, P. S. Narayanaswamy 2006: D. Pasupathi, Chingleput Ranganathan 2007: B. Krishnamoorti 2008: Puranam Purushottama Sastri 2009: Parassala B Ponnammal 2010: Suguna Purushothaman, Mysore Nagamani Srinath
Instrumental Clarinete 1994: A. K. C. Natarajan
Venu (flauta traversa). 1954: Palladam Sanjeeva Rao 1961: T. N. Swaminatha Pillai 1965: T. R. Mahalingam 1984: Natesan Ramani 1987: T. Viswanathan 1989: Sikkil Sisters - Kunjumani & Neela 1997: Kesi Narayanaswamy 1999-2000: T. S. Sankaran 2004: Prapancham Sita Ram
Ghatam 1988: Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram 1995: Umayalpuram K. Narayanaswamy
Gottuvadhyam 1958: Budalur Krishnamurthi Sastri 2006: Chitravina N. Ravi Kiran
Kanjira 2001: G. Harishankar
Mandolina 2009: U. Srinivas
Mridangam 1956: Palghat Mani Iyer 1975: C. S. Murugabhoopathy 1979: Kolanka Venkata Raju 1983: Palghat R. Raghu 1987: T. K. Murthy 1990: T. V. Gopalakrishnan 1991: Vellore G. Ramabhadran 1992: Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman 1994: Dandamudi Rammohan Rao 1996: Guruvayur Dorai 1998: Karaikudi Mani 1999-2000: V. Kamalakar Rao 2002: Yella Venkateshwara Rao 2004: Madras A. Kannan 2006: Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam 2008: Mannargudi A. Easwaran 2009: Dandamudi Sumathi Rama Mohan Rao 2010: Srimushnam Raja Rao
Nadaswaram 1955: Thiruvaduthurai N. Rajratnam Pillai 1962: Dr. Thiruvengadu Subramania Pillai 1966: P. S. Viruswamy Pillai 1972: T. S. Natarajasundaram Pillai 1976: Sheik Chinna Moulana 1981: Namagiripettai K. Krishnan 1995: Domada Chittiabbayi 2005: Ongale N. Rangaiah 2007: S. R. D. Vaithiyanathan
Saxofón 2003: Kadri Gopalnath
Thavil 1985: Valangaiman A. Shanmugasundaram Pillai 1988: Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam 2001: Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel
Vina 1952: Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer 1960: L. Subramanya Sastri 1968: K. S. Narayanaswami 1969: Devakottai A. Narayana Iyengar 1970: Mysore V. Doreswamy Iyengar 1973: Emani Sankara Sastry 1977: Sundaram Balachander 1980: Tanjavur K. P. Sivanandam 1986: Raajeswari Padmanabhan 1988: R. Pichumani Iyer 1990: Chitti Babu 1992: M. K. Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar 1993: Kalpakam Swaminathan 2001: R. N. Doreswamy 2002: E. Gayathri 2007: Vidya Shankar
Violín 1953: Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu 1957: Tirumakudalu Chowdiah 1959: Kumbakonam Rajamanickkam Pillai 1963: T. K. Jayarama Iyer 1964: K. N. Chinnaswamy Iyer 1967: K. S. Venkataramiah 'Papa' 1971: Madurai S. Subramanya Iyer 1974: T. N. Krishnan 1978: Lalgudi Jayaraman 1982: M. S. Gopalakrishnan 1986: M. Chandrasekaran 1988: Chalakudy N. S. Narayanaswamy 1989: R. K. Venkatarama Sastry 1991: Kandadevi S. Alagiriswamy 1993: Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan 1996: Annavarapu Ramaswamy 1997: T. Rukmini 1998: M. S. Anantharaman 1999-2000: R. R Keshava Murthy 2003: A. Kanyakumari 2005: V. V. Subrahmanyam 2008: B. Sasikumar 2010: Nagai R. Muralidharan
Música creativa y experimental 1973: Vishnudas Shirali 1976: Timir Baran Bhattacharya 1978: Rai Chand Boral 1982: Vijay Raghav Rao 1983: Chidambaram S. Jayaraman 1986: Anil Biswas 1986: M. B. Srinivasan 1986: Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay 1988: Bhaskar Chandavarkar 1989: Vanraj Bhatia 1990: L. Subramaniam 1994: V. Balsara 1995: Atul Desai 1997: Satish Bhatia 1998: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt 2001: S. Rajaram 2002: K. P. Udayabhanu 2007: Khayyam
Otras tradiciones mayores de música 2008: Ningombam Ibobi Singh (nata-sankirtana, Manipur). 2009: L. Ibohalmacha Singh (nata-sankirtana, Manipur). 2010: M. V. Simhachala Sastry (hari-katha, Tirupathi).
Danza Bharatanatyam 1955: T. Balasaraswati 1957: Rukmini Devi Arundale 1959: Mylapore Gouri Amma 1962: R. Muthurathnambal 1965: P. Chockkalingam Pillai 1966: Vazhuvoor B. Ramaiyya Pillai, Swarnasaraswathi 1968: Kamala 1969: T. K. Swaminatha Pillai 1970: Shanta Rao 1971: T. Chandrakanthamma 1972: Sikkil Ramaswami Pillai 1973: Kumbakonam K. Bhanumathi 1974: K. P. Kittappa Pillai 1976: M. Muthiah Pillai 1977: Yamini Krishnamurthy 1979: Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai 1981: Indrani Rahman 1982: Vyjayanthimala 1983: Padma Subramanyam 1984: Subramaniam Sarada, Sudharani Raghupathy 1985: T. K. Mahalingam Pillai 1986: Krishnaveni Lakshmanan 1987: U. S. Krishna Rao and Chandrabhaga Devi, Chitra Viswaswaran 1989: V. S. Muthuswamy Pillai 1990: Kalanidhi Narayanan 1991: Adyar K. Lakshman 1992: K. J. Sarasa 1993: Kubernath Tanjorker, C. V. Chandrasekhar 1994: V. P. Dhananjayan and Shanta Dhananjayan 1995: M. K. Saroja, Indira Rajan 1996: Sarada Hoffman 1997: Kanaka Srinivasan 1998: Lakshmi Viswanathan 1999-2000: K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai, Leela Samson, H. R. Keshava Murthy 2001: Alarmel Valli, Pratibha Prahlad 2002: Malavika Sarukkai 2003: C. K. Balagopalan 2004: Nirmala Ramachandran 2005: R Rhadha 2006: S. Narmada 2007: Sucheta Bhide Chapekar 2008: Saroja Vaidyanathan 2009: Ananda Shankar Jayant
Chhau 1963: Suddhendra Narayan Singh Deo (Seraikella). 1971: Ananta Charan Sai (Mayurbhanj). 1975: Krishna Chandra Naik (Mayurbhanj). 1981: Kedarnath Sahu (Seraikella). 1982: Gambhir Singh Mura (Purulia). 1987: Madan Mohan Lenka (Mayurbhanj). 1988: Srihari Nayak (Mayurbhanj). 1990: Bikram Kumbhakar (Seraikella). 1991: Chandra Sekhar Bhanj (Mayurbhanj). 2004: Shashadhar Acharya
Danza creativa / coreografía 1960: Uday Shankar 1970: Mrinalini Sarabhai 1976: Narendra Sharma 1979: Prabhat Ganguli 1980: R. K. Priyagopal Sana 1981: Parvati Kumar 1984: Rajkumar Singhajit Singh 1989: Maya Rao 1991: Chandralekha 1992: Sachin Shankar 1993: Manjusri Chaki Sircar 1995: Astad Deboo 1999-2000 Mallika Sarabhai 2001: Gul Bardhan 2002: Sambhu Bhattacharya 2005: Th. Chaotombi Singh 2006: Gorima Hazarika 2008: Yogsunder Desai