10th National Film Awards

Indian ceremony celebrating cinema of 1962 July 2016 July 2016 10 National Film Awards Best of Indian cinema in 1962 Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan(President of India) yes 1963 04 20 Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi dff.nic.in Dada Thakur 9th 11th The 10th National Film Awards, then known as State Awards for Films, presented by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in 1962.http://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/104_10thNfacatalogue.pdf 10th National Film Awards Directorate of Film Festivals 2 September 2020 19 October 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191019081139/https://www.dff.nic.in/images/Documents/104_10thNfacatalogue.pdf live Ceremony took place at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 21 April 1963 and awards were given by then President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Awards Awards were divided into feature films and non-feature films. President's gold medal for the All India Best Feature Film is now better known as National Film Award for Best Feature Film, whereas President's gold medal for the Best Documentary Film is analogous to today's National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film. For children's films, Prime Minister's gold medal is now given as National Film Award for Best Children's Film. At the regional level, President's silver medal for Best Feature Film is now given as National Film Award for Best Feature Film in a particular language. Certificate of Merit in all the categories is discontinued over the years. Feature films Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For the 10th National Film Awards, a Bengali film Dada Thakur won the President's gold medal for the All India Best Feature Film. Following were the awards given: All India Award Following were the awards given in each category: AwardFilmLanguageAwardee(s)Cash prizePresident's gold medal for the All India Best Feature FilmDada ThakurBengaliProducer: Shyamlal JalanGold Medal and 20,000Director: Sudhir Mukherjee5,000All India Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature FilmAbhijanBengaliProducer: AbhijatrikCertificate of Merit and 10,000Director: Satyajit Ray2,500All India Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature FilmSautela BhaiHindiProducer: Alok BharatiCertificate of Merit onlyDirector: Mahesh KaulAll India Certificate of Merit for the Best Children's FilmRaju Aur GangaramHindiProducer: Children's Film SocietyCertificate of Merit onlyDirector: Ezra Mir Regional Award The awards were given to the best films made in the regional languages of India. With 10th National Film Awards, new award category was introduced for the feature films made in Punjabi language. This newly introduced category includes President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Assamese and Certificate of Merit for second and third best film, although former was not given as no film was found suitable for the award. For feature films in Assamese, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Punjabi, President's silver medal for Best Feature Film was not given, instead Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film was awarded. AwardFilmAwardee(s) Producer DirectorFeature Films in AssameseCertificate of Merit for the Best Feature FilmTezimolaAnwar HussainAnwar HussainFeature Films in BengaliPresident's silver medal for Best Feature FilmKancher SwargaProkash Chandra NanYatrikCertificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature FilmNishitheAgragami ProductionsAgragamiFeature Films in HindiPresident's silver medal for Best Feature FilmSahib Bibi Aur GhulamGuru DuttAbrar AlviFeature Films in KannadaCertificate of Merit for the Best Feature FilmNanda DeepaU. S. VadhirajM. R. VittalU. JawaharFeature Films in MalayalamCertificate of Merit for the Best Feature FilmPuthiya Akasam Puthiya BhoomiAssociated ProducersM. S. ManiCertificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature FilmKalpadukalT. R. RaghavanK. S. AnthonyFeature Films in MarathiPresident's silver medal for Best Feature FilmRangalya Ratri AshaThe Maharashtra Film Industrial Co-Operative Society Ltd.Raja ThakurCertificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature FilmJavai Majha BhalaManeesha Chitra Pvt Ltd.Neelkanth MagdumCertificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature FilmGariba Gharchi LekShivaji Gulabrao KatkarKamlakar Vishnu TorneFeature Films in OdiaCertificate of Merit for the Best Feature FilmSurjyamukhiSoumendra MisraP. K. SenguptaCertificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature FilmLakshmiParvati GhoseSarda NaikG. P. GhoseFeature Films in PunjabiCertificate of Merit for the Best Feature FilmChaudhary Karnail SinghKrishnan KumarKrishnan KumarFeature Films in TamilPresident's silver medal for Best Feature FilmNenjil Or AalayamChithralayaC. V. SridharCertificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature FilmAnnaiAVM ProductionsSarvashri R. KrishnanS. PanjuCertificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature FilmSaradaAl. SrinivasanK. S. GopalakrishnanFeature Films in TeluguPresident's silver medal for Best Feature FilmMahamantri TimmarusuGowthami ProductionsKamalakara Kameshwara RaoCertificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature FilmKula GothraluA. Subba RaoKotayya PratyagatmaCertificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature FilmSiri SampadaluV. VenkateswarluP. Pullaiah Non-Feature films Non-feature film awards were given for the documentaries and educational films made in the country. Following were the awards given: Documentaries AwardFilmLanguageAwardee(s)Cash prizePresident's gold medal for the Best Documentary FilmFour Centuries AgoEnglishProducer: Films DivisionGold Medal and 4,000Director: Shanti Verma1,000All India Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Documentary FilmHimalayan HeritageEnglishProducer: Films DivisionCertificate of Merit and 2,000Director: N. S. Thapa500All India Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Documentary FilmThe Telco StoryEnglishProducer: Hunnar FilmsCertificate of Merit onlyDirector: Clement Baptista Educational films AwardFilmLanguageAwardee(s)Cash prizeAll India Certificate of Merit for the Best Educational FilmVirginia TobaccoEnglishProducer: Films DivisionCertificate of Merit onlyDirector: P. R. S. PillayAll India Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Educational FilmThe Evolution and Races of ManEnglishProducer: National Education and Information Film Ltd.Certificate of Merit onlyDirector: S. Sukhdev Awards not given Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award: Prime Minister's gold medal for the Best Children's Film Prime Minister's gold medal for the Best Educational Film President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Assamese President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Kannada President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Malayalam President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Oriya President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Punjabi References External links National Film Awards Archives Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India Category:National Film Awards (India) ceremonies National Film Awards Category:1963 in Indian cinema