The 36th

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 ...

, presented by

Directorate of Film Festivals The Directorate of Film Festivals in India was an organisation that initiated and presented the International Film Festival of India, the National Film Awards and the Indian Panorama. Although the Directorate helped appoint members of the jur ...

, the organisation set up by Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of

Indian Cinema The Cinema of India consists of motion pictures produced in India, which had a large effect on world cinema since the late 20th century. Major centers of film production across the country include Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, ...

released in the year 1988. Ceremony took place in 1989.

Awards

Awards were divided into feature films, non-feature films, and books written on Indian cinema.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Feature films

Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 36th National Film Awards, a

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, ''

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'' won the

National Film Award for Best Feature Film The National Award for Best Feature Film is one of the categories in the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India. It is one of se ...

whereas a

Telugu film Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Telugu cinema is based in Film Nagar, Hy ...

, '' Daasi'' won the maximum number of awards (5). Following were the awards given in each category:

Juries

A committee headed by

Tapan Sinha Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both ...

was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards. Following were the jury members: * Jury members **

(Chairperson)

Balu Mahendra Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran (19 May 1939 13 February 2014), commonly known as Balu Mahendra, was a Sri Lankan-born Indian cinematographer, director, screenwriter and film editor who worked predominantly in Tamil cinema. Widely regarded as ...

Bharathiraja Bharathiraja (born 17 July 1941) is an Indian film director and actor who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. Making his debut in 1977 with ''16 Vayathinile'', he is known for realistic and sensitive portrayals of rural life in his films. ...

Bhaskar ChandavarkarBimal DuttCharu Kamal HazarikaDhira Biswal

Jatin Das Jatindra Nath Das ( bn, যতীন্দ্রনাথ দাস; 27 October 1904 – 13 September 1929), better known as Jatin Das, was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary who worked to make India independent from the Bri ...

J. P. DasJayoo PatwardhanLakshmi DeepakN. Lakshmi NarayanNiranjan Roy

C. Radhakrishnan C. Radhakrishnan (born 15 February 1939) is a writer and film director in Malayalam language from Kerala, India. Life Chakkupurayil Radhakrishnan was born on 15 February 1939 in Chamravattom (a village in Tirur) in Malapuram District, which wa ...

V. Raja KrishnanVasant Chaudhury

All India Award

Following were the awards given:

= Golden Lotus Award

= Official name: Swarna Kamal All awardees receive the Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal), a certificate and cash prize.

= Silver Lotus Award

= Official name: Rajat Kamal All awardees receive the Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal), a certificate and cash prize.

Regional awards

The award is given to best film in the regional languages in India. Best Feature Film in Each of the Language Other Than Those Specified in the Schedule VIII of the Constitution

Non-feature films

Short films made in any Indian language and certified by the Central Board of Film Certification as a documentary/newsreel/fiction are eligible for non-feature film section.

Juries

A committee headed by

Homi Sethna Homi Nusserwanji Sethna (24 August 1923 – 5 September 2010) was an Indian nuclear scientist and a chemical engineer, gaining international fame as the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (India) during the time when the first nucle ...

was appointed to evaluate the non-feature films awards. Following were the jury members: * Jury Members **

(Chairperson)JagmohanSamiran Dutta

Ram Mohan Ram Mohan (26 August 1931 – 11 October 2019) was an Indian animator, title designer and design educator, who was also known as father of Indian Animation and was a veteran in the Indian animation industry, who started his career at the Cartoo ...

Rajiv Mehrotra

Golden Lotus Award

Official name: Swarna Kamal All the awardees receive the Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal), a certificate and cash prize.

Silver Lotus Award

Official name: Rajat Kamal All the awardees receive the Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal) and cash prize.

Best Writing on Cinema

The awards aim at encouraging study and appreciation of cinema as an art form and dissemination of information and critical appreciation of this art-form through publication of books, articles, reviews etc.

Juries

A committee headed by

Chidananda Dasgupta Chidananda Das Gupta ( bn, চিদানন্দ দাশগুপ্ত) (20 November 1921 – 22 May 2011)—family name sometimes spelled 'Dashgupta' and 'Dasgupta'—was an Indian filmmaker, film critic, a film historian and one of the ...

was appointed to evaluate the writing on Indian cinema. Following were the jury members: * Jury Members **

(Chairperson)M. F. ThomasVinod Tiwari

Silver Lotus Award

Official name: Rajat Kamal All the awardees receive the Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal) and cash prize.

Awards not given

Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award: * Second Best Feature Film * Best Film on Family Welfare * Best Biographical Film * Best Exploration / Adventure Film * Best Animation Film * Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film * Best Feature Film in Bengali * Best Feature Film in Manipuri * Best Feature Film in Marathi * Best Feature Film in Punjabi * Best Feature Film in Tamil * Best Promotional Film

References

External links

National Film Awards Archives

Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
{{National Film Awards National Film Awards (India) ceremonies 1989 Indian film awards