67th National Film Awards
The 67th National Film Awards ceremony is an upcoming event during which the Directorate of Film Festivals presents its annual National Film Awards to honour the best films of 2019 in the Indian cinema. The ceremony was supposed to held on 3 May 2020 but they were postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
67th National Film Awards | |
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Awarded for | Best of Indian cinema in 2019 |
Awarded by | Directorate of Film Festivals |
Presented by | Directorate of Film Festivals |
Official website | dff.nic.in |
Selection process
The Directorate of Film Festivals invited online entries and the acceptable last date for entries was until 17 February 2020. Feature and Non-Feature Films certified by Central Board of Film Certification between 1 January 2019, and 31 December 2019, 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 2019, and 31 December 2019, 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.[2]
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, a featurette or a Documentary/Newsreel/Non-Fiction by the Central Board of Film Certification.[2]
References
- https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/cinema/coronavirus-pandemic-67th-national-film-awards-delayed-indefinitely
- "Call for entries; 67th National Film Awards for 2018" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 11 February 2020.