Starting in 2000, Indian filmmakers were also eligible to receive awards.

Senior Journalist Dinesh Sharma is the convener of the award committee.

[1] Lala Jagat Narain, Ramesh Chander, Dr Rajender Mathur, Khushwant Singh, Ashwini Chopra, Mahender Khanna, Harish Chopra, Shekhar Singh Jha, Pankaj Vohra, Dilbar Gothi, Ashok Sharma, Vijay J. Darda, Banwarilal Purohit, Manish Pandey of TOI, Jitesh Wadhawan of PTI, Naresh Kaushik of PTI, R K Saxena (UNI Varta), Javed Akhtar (UNI Urdu service), Faizal Khan (UNI), Zia-us-Salam (film critic, the Hindu) Anuj Gupta, Agyaraam Prem, K Narinder, Anil Narinder, Bhavna Vij, Kuldeep Avinash Bhandari, Shakeel Hasan Shamsi, Deepak Dholkia, Indiwar Parijat, Dinesh Upretee, M K Laul, Ashok Singhal, Rakesh Gupta, Aditi Kaul, Rakesh Dua, Poonam Pandey, Usha Pahwa, Meenakshi Rao, Sumit Kumar Singh, Pramod Kumar Singh, Anup Verma etc.

[2][3] Irfan Hussain (Outlook), Shekhar Gurera, R Prasad, Rohnit, Surendra (The Hindu), Ismail Lehri, Sandeep Adhvaryu (TOI) etc.

Ravi Batra, Dhruv Kumar, Shailesh Seth (cameraman - Star News), Surender Mandral (cameraman - Zee News), Ritu Rajput (AIR), H C Tiwari (The Hindustan Times), Manoj Verma (India Today), C N Rao (Eenadu), Sirish Shete (PTI) etc.