70th National Film Awards
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The 70th National Film Awards were announced on 16 August 2024 to honour the best films of 2022 in Indian cinema, presented by the National Film Development Corporation of India.[1] The awards ceremony was originally slated to be held on 3 May 2023 but was postponed to October 2024 due to delays after the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] The winners along with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient will be felicitated by the President, Droupadi Murmu in October 2024 at the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.[2][3]
| 70th National Film Awards | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best of Indian cinema in 2022 |
| Awarded by | National Film Development Corporation of India |
| Presented by | President of India |
| Announced on | 16 August 2024 |
| Site | New Delhi |
| Official website | nfdcindia |
| Highlights | |
| Best Feature Film | Aattam |
| Best Non-Feature Film | Ayena |
| Best Book | Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography |
| Best Film Critic | Deepak Dua |
| Most awards | Ponniyin Selvan: I (4) |
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The National Film Development Corporation of India invited online entries with the acceptable last date for entries until 30 January 2024.[4][5] Feature and Non-Feature Films certified by Central Board of Film Certification between 1 January 2022, and 31 December 2022, were eligible for the film award categories. Books, critical studies, reviews or articles on cinema published in Indian newspapers, magazines, and journals between 1 January 2022, and 31 December 2022, were eligible for the best writing on cinema section.[6] Entries of dubbed, revised or copied versions of a film or translation, abridgements, edited or annotated works and reprints were ineligible for the awards.[7]
For the feature and non-feature Films sections, films in any Indian language, shot on 16 mm, 35 mm, a wider film gauge or a digital format, and released in cinemas, on video or digital formats for home viewing were eligible. Films were required to be certified as a feature film, documentary, short film, or animation film etc by the Central Board of Film Certification. [8][9][10]
Official Name: Swarna Kamal
All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.
Official Name: Rajat Kamal
All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.
All the awardees are awarded with Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal), a certificate and cash prize.
All the awardees are awarded with a certificate.
Non-feature length films made in any Indian language and certified by the Central Board of Film Certification as a documentary, short film, animation film etc are eligible for non-feature film section.
Official Name: Swarna Kamal
All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.
Official Name: Rajat Kamal
All the awardees are awarded with Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal) and cash prize.
All the awardees are awarded with a certificate.
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.
| • Gangadhar Mudaliar (Chairman) | |
| • | • |
Official Name: Swarna Kamal
All the awardees are awarded with the Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal) accompanied with a cash prize.
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