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Sanjay Leela Bhansali has received 7 National Film Awards in his career. He won his first National Film Award in 1995 for the Best Feature Film in Hindi for Khamoshi: The Musical. He has since won the National Film Award for Best Direction for Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), Devdas (2002), Black (2005), Saawariya (2007), Guzaarish (2010), and Padmaavat (2018).