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Presented on
  
June 1986 (1986-06)

Best Feature Film
  
Chidambaram

Date
  
June 1986

Official website
  
dff.nic.in

Best Non-Feature Film
  
Bombay: Our City

Other ceremonies
  
1985, 1987

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Awarded for
  
Best of Indian cinema in 1985

Most awards
  
New Delhi Times and Sindhu Bhairavi (3)

Presented by
  
Directorate of Film Festivals

The 33rd 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 1985. Ceremony took place in June 1986.

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Awards

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

Feature films

Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 33rd National Film Awards, a Malayalam film, Chidambaram won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, whereas Hindi film, New Delhi Times and Tamil film, Sindhu Bhairavi won the maximum number of awards (3). Following were the awards given in each category:

Juries

A committee headed by Prem Nazir was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards. Following were the jury members:

  • Jury Members
  • Prem Nazir (Chairperson) • J. P. Das • Jaya Bachchan • Komal Swaminathan • V. K. Madhavan Kutty • Prema Karanth • Bapu Watve • Gautam Ghose • K. L. Nandan (Not attended) • Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (Not attended)

    • All India Award

    Following were the awards given:

    Golden Lotus Award

    Official Name: Swarna Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

    Silver Lotus Award

    Official Name: Rajat Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

    Regional Awards

    The award is given to best film in the regional languages in India.

    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 M. V. Krishnaswamy was appointed to evaluate the non-feature films awards. Following were the jury members:

  • Jury Members
  • M. V. Krishnaswamy (Chairperson) • Satish Bahadur • T. M. Ramachandran • Pankaj Butalia

    • Golden Lotus Award

    Official Name: Swarna Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

    Silver Lotus Award

    Official Name: Rajat Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with '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 Amita Malik was appointed to evaluate the writing on Indian cinema. Following were the jury members:

  • Jury Members
  • Amita Malik (Chairperson) • N. N. Pillai • B. V. Dharap

    • Silver Lotus Award

    Official Name: Rajat Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with '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:

    References

    33rd National Film Awards Wikipedia
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