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Presented on
  
July 1998 (1998-07)

Best Feature Film
  
Thaayi Saheba

Date
  
July 1998

Official website
  
dff.nic.in

Best Non-Feature Film
  
Jataner Jami

Other ceremonies
  
1997, 2000

Awarded for
  
Best of Indian cinema in 1997

Awarded by
  
President of India (K. R. Narayanan)

Presented by
  
Directorate of Film Festivals

The 45th 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 1997. Ceremony took place in July 1998 and awards were given by then President of India, K. R. Narayanan.

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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 !! National Film Awards, a Kannada film, Thaayi Saheba won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film also winning the maximum number of awards (4). Following were the awards given in each category:

Juries

A committee headed by B. Saroja Devi was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards. Following were the jury members:

  • Jury Members
  • B. Saroja Devi (Chairperson) • P. Madhavan • Maheep Singh • C. V. L. Sastry • Aruna Purohit • Uma da Cunha • Devender Khandelwal • Sandip Ray • Santwana Burdoloi • Arundathi Nag • Pushpa Bharati • K. R. Mohanan • V. Madhusudhan Rao

    • 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 '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.

    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 K. K. Kapil was appointed to evaluate the non-feature films awards. Following were the jury members:

  • Jury Members
  • K. K. Kapil (Chairperson) • Dinkar Chowdhary • Shashi Ranjan • Parvathi Menon • Namita Gokhale

    • 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 Chidananda Dasgupta was appointed to evaluate the writing on Indian cinema. Following were the jury members:

  • Jury Members
  • Chidananda Dasgupta (Chairperson) • Tarun Vijay • Chandan Mitra

    • Golden Lotus Award

    Official Name: Swarna Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna 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

    45th National Film Awards Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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