The 20th
National Film Awards
The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Cinema of India, Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India ...
, presented by
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of
Indian Cinema
The cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century. Indian cinema is made up of various film industries, each focused on p ...
released in the year 1972.
With this year, new award category is introduced for the feature films made in
Meitei language
Meitei (; ) also known as Manipuri ), is a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India. It is the official language and the lingua franca of Manipur and an additional official language in four districts of Assam. It is one of the scheduled ...
. This newly introduced category includes
President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Manipuri.
Juries
Six different committees were formed based on the film making sectors in India, mainly based in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras along with the central committee for all India level. For 20th National Film Awards, central committee was headed by
Romesh Thapar.
* Jury Members: Central
**
Romesh Thapar (
Chairperson
The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a Board of directors, board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by ...
)
Thakazhi Sivasankara PillaiRita RaySheila VatsUsha Bhagat
Girish Karnad
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian playwright, actor, film director, Kannada writer, and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. His rise as a playwr ...
M. Yunus Dehlvi
Teji Bachchan Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' Shanta Gandhi U. Visweswar Rao I. S. Johar Ardhendu Mukerjee
* Jury Members: Short Films
** S. K. Kooka (
Chairperson
The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a Board of directors, board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by ...
)
B. D. GargaPrasanta Sanyal
Gerson Da Cunha Aruna Vasudeva Bishamber KhannaRevati Saran SharmaDin Dayal
* Jury Regional: Bombay
**
Ali Sardar Jafri
Ali Sardar Jafri (29 November 1913 – 1 August 2000) was an Indian writer of Urdu language. He was also a poet, critic and film lyricist.
Biography
Early life and education
Ali Sardar Jafri was born in Balrampur (in present-day Uttar Prad ...
(
Chairperson
The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a Board of directors, board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by ...
)
Mrinalini SarabhaiCharles Correa
Charles Mark Correa (1 September 1930 – 16 June 2015) was an Indian architect and urban planner based in Mumbai, India. Credited with the creation of modern architecture in post-Independent India, he was celebrated for his sensitivity to the ...
Bikram SinghBhupendra Shah Gopinath TalwalkarD. G. NadkarniKumud Mehta
Adi MarzbanP. K. RavindranathB. K. Adarsh
Atma RamG. P. Shirke
Kamleshwar
* Jury Regional: Calcutta
**
Sombhu Mitra (
Chairperson
The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a Board of directors, board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by ...
)Amina Kar
Suchitra MitraSanat LahiriN. K. GhoshBhaben BaruaRamesh Chandra Dhall
Ananda Shankar Badal Sarkar B. N. Sircar
* ''Jury Regional: Calcutta - Nominated''
** Parimal Sarkar
Kanan DeviSubodh Mitra
Elangbam Nilakanta Singh Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi
* Jury Regional: Madras
**
Malcolm Adiseshiah (
Chairperson
The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a Board of directors, board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by ...
)
B. N. Reddy
Bommireddi Narasimha Reddi (16 November 1908 – 8 November 1977), professionally known as B. N. Reddi, was an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was an early figure in the Telugu cinema. Many of his earlier films like Vande ...
A. L. VelliappaMahmooda Haja ShareefS. AnanthamurthyThoppil RaviV. C. Subburaman
P. S. Ramakrishna RaoK. P. KottarakkaraRajammal AnantharamanP. C. Mathew
Awards
Awards were divided into feature films and non-feature films.
President's Gold Medal for the All India Best Feature Film is now better known as
National Film Award for Best Feature Film
The National Film Award for Best Feature Film is one of the categories in the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in I ...
, whereas President's Gold Medal for the Best Documentary Film is analogous to today's
National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film. For children's films, Prime Minister's Gold Medal is now given as
National Film Award for Best Children's Film
The National Film Award for Best Children's Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Golden Lotus ...
. At the regional level, President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film is now given as National Film Award for Best Feature Film in a particular language. Certificate of Merit in all the categories is discontinued over the years.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Feature films
Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 20th National Film Awards, a
Malayalam film
Malayalam cinema, also referred to as Mollywood, is a segment of Indian cinema dedicated to producing films in the Malayalam language, primarily spoken in Kerala and the Lakshadweep islands. It encompasses both the mainstream film industry ...
''
Swayamvaram'' won the
President's Gold Medal for the All India Best Feature Film along with winning the maximum number of awards (four). Following were the awards given in each category:
All India Award
Following were the awards given:
Regional Award
The awards were given to the best films made in the
regional languages of India. For feature films in
English,
Kashmiri,
Oriya and
Punjabi language
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world, with approximately 150 million native sp ...
, President'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
Following were the awards given:
Short films
Awards not given
Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award:
*
Best Story Writer
*
Best Film on Family Welfare
*
Best Children's Film
*
Best Educational / Instructional Film
*
Best Experimental Film
*
Best Promotional Film (Non-Commercial)
*
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 ArchivesOfficial Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
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National Film Awards
The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Cinema of India, Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India ...
1972 in Indian cinema