35th National Film Awards

The 35th 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 the year 1987. Ceremony took place in April 1988 and awards were given by then President of India, R. Venkataraman.

Starting with 35th National Film Awards, National Film Award for Best Direction for Feature films section is awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus). For Non-feature films section, two new awards were instituted and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) namely, Best Educational / Motivational Film and Best Short Fiction Film.

Awards
Awards were divided into feature films, non-feature films and books written on Indian cinema.

Feature films
Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 35th National Film Awards, an Assamese film, Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and a Malayalam film, Anantaram along with a Tamil film, Nayakan and a Hindi film, Tamas won the maximum number of awards (3). Following were the awards given in each category:

Juries
A committee headed by Shyam Benegal was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards. Following were the jury members:


 * Jury Members
 * Shyam Benegal (Chairperson) • Abdul Majid • Amita Malik • Sowcar Janaki • Jaya Bachchan • Nachiket Patwardhan • B. S. Narayana • Pavithran • Sadhu Meher • Salil Chowdhury • Shaji N. Karun • U. S. Vadiraj

All India Award
Following were the awards given:

Golden Lotus Award
Official Name: Swarna Kamal

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

Silver Lotus Award
Official Name: Rajat Kamal

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

Regional Awards
The award is given to best film in the regional languages in India.

Non-Feature Films
Short Films made in any Indian language and certified by the Central Board of Film Certification as a documentary/newsreel/fiction are eligible for non-feature film section.

Juries
A committee headed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta was appointed to evaluate the non-feature films awards. Following were the jury members:


 * Jury Members
 * Buddhadeb Dasgupta (Chairperson) • K. K. Kapil • N. Lakshminarayan • K. Viswanath • Ram Mohan

Golden Lotus Award
Official Name: Swarna Kamal

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

Silver Lotus Award
Official Name: Rajat Kamal

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

Best Writing on Cinema
The awards aim at encouraging study and appreciation of cinema as an art form and dissemination of information and critical appreciation of this art-form through publication of books, articles, reviews etc.

Juries
A committee headed by Sunil Ganguly was appointed to evaluate the writing on Indian cinema. Following were the jury members:


 * Jury Members
 * Sunil Ganguly (Chairperson) • Manarcad Mathew • K. L. Nandan

Silver Lotus Award
Official Name: Rajat Kamal

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

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


 * Second Best Feature Film
 * Best Feature Film in English
 * Best Film on Family Welfare
 * Best Feature Film in Manipuri
 * Best Feature Film in Punjabi
 * Best Feature Film in Telugu
 * Best Non-feature Film on Family Welfare
 * Best Promotional Film