38th National Film Awards

The 38th 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 1990. Ceremony took place in 1991.

With 38th National Film Awards, couple of new awards were instituted for Non-Feature films section. These awards includes Best Investigative Film, Best Audiography, Best Cinematography and Best Editing.

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 38th National Film Awards, a Tamil film, Marupakkam won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, whereas a Hindi film, Lekin... won the maximum number of awards (5). Following were the awards given in each category:

Juries
A committee headed by veteran actor Ashok Kumar was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards. Following were the jury members:


 * Jury Members
 * Ashok Kumar (Chairperson) • Usha Khanna • P. V. Gangadharan • Honey Irani • Janardhan Roy • Raj Bisaria • T. Subbarami Reddy • Sripriya • Komal Swaminathan • J. P. Das • Rekha Sahay • G. V. Iyer • T. S. Narasimhan • Bhupen Hazarika • Kalpana Lajmi • Premlata Bajpai • Shaji N. Karun

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.

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 S. Krishnaswamy was appointed to evaluate the non-feature films awards. Following were the jury members:


 * Jury Members
 * S. Krishnaswamy (Chairperson) • Madan Bawaria • Pramod Mathur • Vijaya Nirmala • Swapan Ghose

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 Amita Malik was appointed to evaluate the writing on Indian cinema. Following were the jury members:


 * Jury Members
 * Amita Malik (Chairperson) • Vinod Bhardwaj • Punathil Kunjabdulla

Golden Lotus Award
Official Name: Swarna Kamal

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

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:


 * Best Children's Film
 * Best Feature Film on National Integration
 * Best Film on Family Welfare
 * Best Film on Environment Conservation / Preservation
 * Best Feature Film in English
 * Best Feature Film in Marathi
 * Best Feature Film in Oriya
 * Best Feature Film in Punjabi
 * Best Promotional Film
 * Best Historical Reconstruction / Compilation Film
 * Best Non-Feature Film on Family Welfare
 * Best Animation Film
 * Best First Non-Feature Film
 * Best Non-Feature Film Direction