Bollywood Home » Awards in Bollywood » National Film Awards The most interesting thing About Bollywood, apart from its mainstream activities of acting and filming, is the Awards in Bollywood. The most important and most prestigious one of all the award ceremonies is the National Film Awards. It also happens to be the oldest among all the award ceremonies in India. The National Film Awards ceremony was held for the first time in the year of 1954. currently, the National Film Awards is being run by the Directorate of Film Festivals.

There are so many of the categories of awards that are to be given away to the award winners. The categories in which the films are given the awards are Golden Lotus Awards, Silver Lotus Awards, Nargis Dutt Award, Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film, Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award and the Best Book on Cinema Award. In addition to these awards that are categorily included into the National Film Awards, there are, in almost every year, some special awards that are distributed among the deserving persons.



The fact that makes everybody wonder is the total number of awards that are given in the National Film Awards ceremony. The best regional films in all the languages in India are given the Best Feature Film Award. The list of Awards also include the Best Feature Film in English and Best Feature Film in Manipuri. The category of Silver Lotus Award has the biggest number of variations of the awards that include Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Child Artist, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Lyrics, Best Art Direction, Best Music Direction, Best Male Playback Singer, Best Female Playback Singer, Special Jury Award and lots of other awards.

The National Film Awards ceremony of every year is itself a dazzling phenomenon. The presence of so many stars of different generations, and the performances of the guest artists take the success of the award giving ceremony to the highest peak.

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