70th National Film Awards
Indian ceremony celebrating cinema of 2022
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. 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. The winners were announced on 16 August 2024, by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in a press conference. The winners along with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient were felicitated by the President, Droupadi Murmu on 8 October 2024 at the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
Selection process
The National Film Development Corporation of India invited online entries with the acceptable last date for entries until 30 January 2024. 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. Entries of dubbed, revised or copied versions of a film or translation, abridgements, edited or annotated works and reprints were ineligible for the awards.
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.
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