The National Film Award – Special Jury Award was one of the
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 annually by the
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 jury ...
, the organisation set up by
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for feature films. The recipients of Special Jury Award are awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus), cash prize of and certificate of merit.
The award was instituted in 1978, at
26th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. This award considers all the aspects of film making than individual area. At the
70th National Film Awards, the award was discontinued.
Winners
See also
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National Film Award – Special Mention
References
External links
Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, IndiaNational Film Awards ArchivesNational Film Awardsat
IMDb
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Special Jury Award (feature film)