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The National Film Awards are presented every year by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organization set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India, to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema for the year. Throughout the year various awards have been discontinued and given intermittently. Following is the list of discontinued and intermittent National Film Awards. The awards, instituted 1953, on the 40th anniversary of Indian Cinema, are given for feature films, non-feature films and best writing on cinema, and were once officially known as the State Awards for Films. In addition to the regular National Film Awards, several discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards have been presented throughout the years.
Discontinued National Film Awards
Following were the National Film Awards discontinued over the years:
Feature films
Following are the discontinued National Film Awards from feature films category:
All India Certificate of Merit
The All India Certificate of Merit was one of the National Film Awards given by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Directorate of Film Festivals, India. It was instituted in 1954 and awarded at 1st National Film Awards[1] and was lastly awarded in 1957 at 4th National Film Awards.[2] It was given along with National Film Award for Best Feature Film and two films per year were awarded with this award.
| List of films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film(s) | Language(s) | Producer(s) | Director(s) | Refs. |
| 1953 (1st) |
Do Bigha Zamin | Hindi | Bimal Roy | Bimal Roy | [1] |
| Bhagavan Sri Krishna Chaitanya | Bengali | Debaki Bose | Debaki Bose | ||
| 1954 (2nd) |
Neelakuyil | Malayalam | Chandrathara Productions | • P. Bhaskaran • Ramu Kariat |
[3] |
| Biraj Bahu | Hindi | Hiten Chaudhary Productions | Bimal Roy | ||
| 1955 (3rd) |
Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje | Hindi | Rajkamal Kalamandir | V. Shantaram | [4] |
| Shirdi Che Sai Baba | Marathi | Nandadeep Chitra | Kumarsen Samarth | ||
| 1956 (4th) |
Bandhan | Hindi | Sircar Productions | Hem Chunder | [2] |
| Tenali Ramakrishna | Telugu | Vikram Productions | B. S. Ranga | ||
| 1957 (5th) |
Mother India | Hindi | Mehboob Productions | Mehboob Khan | [5] |
Second Best Feature Film
The award for National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film was instituted in 1957, at the 5th National Film Awards. It was awarded annually to a film produced in India that year, in any Indian language. It was last awarded in 1992, at the 40th National Film Awards.
Third Best Feature Film
The National Film Award for Third Best Feature Film was one of the National Film Awards given by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Directorate of Film Festivals, India. It was instituted in 1958 and awarded at 6th National Film Awards and lastly awarded in 1965 at 13th National Film Awards and discontinued after that.[6][7]
| List of films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film(s) | Language(s) | Producer(s) | Director(s) | Refs. |
| 1958 (6th) |
School Master | Kannada | B. R. Panthulu | B. R. Panthulu | [6] |
| 1959 (7th) |
Sujata | Hindi | Bimal Roy | Bimal Roy | [8] |
| 1960 (8th) |
Deivapiravi | Tamil | Kamal Brothers Pvt Ltd | • R. Krishnan • S. Panju |
[9] |
| 1961 (9th) |
Prapanch | Marathi | Indian National Pictures | Madhukar Pathak | [10] |
| 1962 (10th) |
Sautela Bhai | Hindi | Alok Bharati | Mahesh Kaul | [11] |
| 1963 (11th) |
Mahanagar | Bengali | R. D. Bansal | Satyajit Ray | [12] |
| 1964 (12th) |
Unnaipol Oruvan | Tamil | Aasiya Jyothi films | D. Jayakanthan | [13][14] |
| 1965 (13th) |
Chhoti Chhoti Baten | Hindi | Rajvanshi Productions | Motilal Rajvansh | [7] |
Best Story
The National Film Award for Best Story was one of the National Film Awards given by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Directorate of Film Festivals, India. It was instituted in 1962 and awarded at 10th National Film Awards and lastly awarded in 1975 at 23rd National Film Awards[15] and discontinued after that.
In the first year, for the 10th National Film Awards, award winners were awarded only with Certificate of Merit. Later on, all the award winners were awarded with Silver Lotus and cash prize of ₹ 10,000/-.