The 18th

National Film Awards The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorat ...

were held in

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, India in November 1971 by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for

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released in 1970. The awards were presented by then

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, V. V. Giri.

Juries

The award winners were chosen by four juries, one each for the Bombay, Calcutta and Madras regions and a central jury for all India. For the 18th National Film Awards the central jury was headed by Justice G. D. Khosla. * Jury Members: Central ** G. D. Khosla (

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)Shiela Vats Teji Bachchan

V. K. Narayana Menon V. K. Narayana Menon (Thrissur Vadakke Kurupath Narayana Menon) (1911–1997) was a scholar of classical Indian dance and Indian classical music. He was one of the prominent art critics of India and a Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship. Educat ...

Ashis Burman Ali Sardar Jafri

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Din Dayal

Nasir Hussain Mohammad Nasir Hussain Khan (16 November 1926 — 13 March 2002), better known as Nasir Hussain, was an Indian film producer, director, and screenwriter. With a career spanning decades, Hussain has been credited as a major trendsetter in the ...

U. Visweswar Rao Subodh Mitra * Regional Jury: Bombay **

Vijay Tendulkar Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar (6 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. His Marathi plays established him as ...

(Chair)Firoze RangoonwallaBikram Singh K. K. HebbarIrene Heredia

Ismat Chughtai Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class ...

L. G. JogGopinath Talwalkar

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Shatrujit Paul

Bhappi Sonie Bhappi Sonie (31 July 1928 – 5 September 2001) was an Indian film director and producer, in Hindi cinema. He is best known for Shammi Kapoor and Dharmendra hit films, '' Janwar'' (1965) and ''Brahmachari'' (1968), and also won Filmfare Award fo ...

* Regional Jury: Calcutta **

Amala Shankar Amala Shankar (''née'' Nandy, 27 June 1919 – 24 July 2020) was an Indian danseuse. She was the wife of dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar and mother of musician Ananda Shankar and dancer Mamata Shankar (later she became an actress) and ...

(Chair)Amina KarAnant MahapatraA. K. PramanickTarun Roy Pankaj MullickRajendra Nath BaruaShibatosh MukerjeeNarayan ChakrabortyDilip SarkarNirmal Chowdhury * Regional Jury: Madras **

C. R. Pattabhiraman Chetput Ramaswami Iyer Pattabhiraman ( ta, சேத்துப்பட்டு ராமசவாமி ஐயர் பட்டாபிராமன்) (11 November 1906 – 19 June 2001) was an Indian lawyer and politician from the I ...

(Chair) K. Venkataswamy NaiduP. P. Naidu Mallikarjuna RaoShakuntala Hegde

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VijayalakshmiV. C. Subburaman

Kambisseri Karunakaran Sri. P. N. Karunakaran (Puthenveettil Narayanan Karunakaran), popularly known as Kambisseri Karunakaran (3 March 1922 – 27 July 1977) was an Indian journalist who wrote in Malayalam language. He was the chief editor of '' Janayugam Daily'', ...

C. N. RamanujamT. S. MuthuswamyK. Kottarakkara

Awards

Awards were given to feature films and non-feature films. The top national award in each category was the President's Gold Medal and, at the regional level, the President's Silver Medal.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Feature films

The

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'' Samskara'' won the President's Gold Medal for the All India Best Feature Film. Three award each went to the

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, '' Dastak'' and ''

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'', and to the Bengali film ''

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''.

All India Award

Award recipients:

Regional Award

The awards were given to the best films made in the regional languages of India. For feature films in Assamese,

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, Oriya and

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, the resident's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film was not given. The producer and director of the film were awarded with 5,000 and a Silver medal, respectively.

Non-Feature films

The award recipients were:

Short films

Awards not given

The following awards not given: * Best Story Writer * Best Film on Family Welfare * Best Children's Film * Lyric Writer of the Best Film Song on National Integration * Best Information Film (Documentary) * Best Educational / Instructional Film * Best Promotional Film * Best Experimental Film * Best Animation Film * President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Assamese * President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in English * President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Oriya * President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Punjabi

References

External links

National Film Awards Archives

Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
{{National Film Awards National Film Awards (India) ceremonies 1970 in Indian cinema