25th National Film Awards

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Presented on April 1978 (1978-04) Best Feature Film Ghatashraddha Date April 1978		Official website dff.nic.in Most awards Ghatashraddha (3) Other ceremonies 1976, 1979
Awarded for Best of Indian cinema in 1977 Presented by Directorate of Film Festivals

The 25th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1977. Ceremony took place in April 1978.

Juries

Two different committees were formed for feature films and short films, headed by E. Alkazi and Ashok Mitra respectively.

Jury Members: Feature Films

Ebrahim Alkazi (Chairperson) • Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai • Adya Rangacharya • Ka. Naa. Subramanyam • Sundari K. Shridharani

Firoze Rangoonwalla • Rita Ray (Kobita Sarkar) • N. S. Ramachandran • K. M. Almadi • K. S. Duggal • Raghuveer Chaudhari

Allauddin Khan • Swapan Mullick • A. Viswam • R. D. Mathur • M. K. Raina

Jury Members: Short Films

Ashok Mitra (Chairperson) • M. N. Kapur • Kapila Vatsyayan • R. N. Pande

Awards

Awards were divided into feature films and non-feature films.

Feature films

Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 25th National Film Awards, a Kannada film, Ghatashraddha won the President's Gold Medal for the All India Best Feature Film also winning the maximum number of awards (three). 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 Bengali, English, Hindi, Kashmiri, Meitei and Punjabi, award for Best Feature Film was not given.

Non-Feature films

Following were the awards given:

Awards not given

Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award:

References

25th National Film Awards Wikipedia

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