36th National Film Awards

The 36th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1988. Ceremony took place in 1989.

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 36th National Film Awards, a Malayalam film, Piravi won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film whereas a Telugu film, Daasi won the maximum number of awards (5). Following were the awards given in each category:

Juries
A committee headed by Tapan Sinha was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards. Following were the jury members:
 * Jury members
 * Tapan Sinha (Chairperson) • Balu Mahendra • Bharathiraja • Bhaskar Chandavarkar • Bimal Dutt • Charu Kamal Hazarika • Dhira Biswal • Jatin Das • J. P. Das • Jayoo Patwardhan • Lakshmi Deepak • N. Lakshmi Narayan • Niranjan Roy • C. Radhakrishnan • V. Raja Krishnan • Vasant Chaudhury

All India Award
Following were the awards given:

Golden Lotus Award
Official name: Swarna Kamal

All awardees receive the Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal), a certificate and cash prize.

Silver Lotus Award
Official name: Rajat Kamal

All awardees receive the 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.

Best Feature Film in Each of the Language Other Than Those Specified in the Schedule VIII of the Constitution

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 Homi Sethna was appointed to evaluate the non-feature films awards. Following were the jury members:
 * Jury Members
 * Homi Sethna (Chairperson) • Jagmohan • Samiran Dutta • Ram Mohan • Rajiv Mehrotra

Golden Lotus Award
Official name: Swarna Kamal

All the awardees receive the Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal), a certificate and cash prize.

Silver Lotus Award
Official name: Rajat Kamal

All the awardees receive the 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 Chidananda Dasgupta was appointed to evaluate the writing on Indian cinema. Following were the jury members:
 * Jury Members
 * Chidananda Dasgupta (Chairperson) • M. F. Thomas • Vinod Tiwari

Silver Lotus Award
Official name: Rajat Kamal

All the awardees receive the 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 Film on Family Welfare
 * Best Biographical Film
 * Best Exploration / Adventure Film
 * Best Animation Film
 * Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film
 * Best Feature Film in Bengali
 * Best Feature Film in Manipuri
 * Best Feature Film in Marathi
 * Best Feature Film in Punjabi
 * Best Feature Film in Tamil
 * Best Promotional Film