24th National Film Awards

The 24th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in 1976.

Awards
Awards were divided into feature films and non-feature films.

Feature films
Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 24th National Film Awards, a Hindi film, Mrugaya won the President's Gold Medal for the All India Best Feature Film. Following were the awards given in each category:

All India Award
Following were the awards given:

Regional Award
The awards were given to the best films made in the regional languages of India.

All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

Non-Feature films

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Awards not given
Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award


 * Best Film on Family Welfare
 * Best Children's Film
 * Best Lyrics
 * Best Feature Film on National Integration
 * President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in English
 * President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Punjabi
 * President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Tamil