Following is a brief list of the Award winners from each category for each year since 1964. In 2004, there were 33 awards in total, including the 12 prominent awards. The awards festival was suspended by the Rajapaksa administration and were resumed in 2016 after Minister Gayantha Karunathilaka announced that the festival will resume under the new government. The best actress award was received by Punya Heendeniya for her performance in Gamperaliya. Nanayakkara was awarded the best actor title for his performance in Sikuru Tharuwa, another popular film in the 1964 film festival. Sir Lester James Peiris and Regi Siriwardena won the awards for best director and best script-writer, respectively and that too was for Gamperaliya. Gamperaliya was regarded as the best film and it was awarded to its producer Anton Wickremasinghe. The best film, best director, best script-writer, best actor and best actress were honoured that day. The first Sarasaviya Awards Festival had as entries not only the films screened in 1963 but also the films screened from 1960 to 1963. The year 1960 is seen as the beginning of the golden era of Sinhala cinema. 1 6 relations: Chandani Seneviratne, Cinema of Sri Lanka, Nilmini Buwaneka, Sarath Kothalawala, Sinhalese language, Sri Lanka. Yet the mainstream consisted of simulations of Indian productions. Bora Diya Pokuna (Secret of the Lotus Pond) ( ) is a 2015 Sri Lankan Sinhala adult drama film directed by Sathyajith Maitipe and produced by Sunil Dharmasiri.
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By then a series of good Sinhala films like Podi Putha, Rekhawa, Sandeshaya, Ranmuthuduwa, Kurulubedda, Sikurutharuwa and Gamperaliya had appeared on screen. The first Sarasaviya film festival was held on at the Asoka Cinema Hall, Colombo, 17 years after the first Sinhala film screened. There was no need to go to India to make films any more and the era of Indian artistes too had ended. The Sarasaviya film awards ceremony began in 1964 at a time when the local cinema was trying to shed its South Indian orientation and establish an indigenous identity.
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