- Source: Prag Cine Awards North-East 2016
The Prag Cine Awards North-East 2016 ceremony, presented by the Prag Network, honoured the actors, technical achievements, and films censored in 2015 from Assam and rest of Northeast India, took place on 14–15 May 2016 at the Church field in Tezpur, Assam. Film fraternities from Northeast as well as Bollywood personalities such as Suniel Shetty, Meiyang Chang were present in this event.
Actress Bidya Rao was honored with the lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution towards the Assamese film Industry, while model and actress Dipannita Sharma and sound engineer Amrit Pritam Dutta were presented with "Golden Icon" award. Pranjal Saikia received best actor award for Lokabandhoo and the best actress award has gone to Urmila Mahanta for Antareen. Manjul Baruah directed Antareen won the best film award, while Onaatah, Khasi language film from Meghalaya, won the best film north-east award.
Winners and nominees
In this edition of Prag Cine Awards, awards were given in 19 different categories to the Assamese films produced from Assam which were censored in the year of 2015. Kothanodi and Antareen topped the nomination list with ten nominations each.
= Awards for films from Assam
=Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
= Awards for films from rest of northeast India
=Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Honorary awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
Veteran actress Bidya Rao will be honoured with the lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution towards the Assamese film Industry.
Golden Icon Awards
Model and actress Dipannita Sharma, and sound engineer Amrit Pritam Dutta were honoured with Golden Icon Awards.
Other awards
Jury's Special Mention: Aditya Malla Buzarbaruah and Abhijit Chowdhury – Marksheet
Jury's Special Mention: Nilanjan Datta – The Head Hunter
Best Critic (Writing on Cinema): Manoj Barpujari
See also
List of Assamese films of the 2010s