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{{Short description|Indian ceremony celebrating cinema of 1963}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
{{Infobox film awards
| number = 11
| award = National Film Awards
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| awarded_for = Best of Indian cinema in 1963
| award_org = [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information and Broadcasting]]
| presenting_org = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]<br/>{{small|([[President of India]])}}
| announced_date =
| presented_date = {{Start date|df=yes|1964|04|25}}
| site = [[Vigyan Bhavan]], [[New Delhi]]
| host =
| website = [http://dff.nic.in/ dff.nic.in]
| lifetime_achievement =
| best_feature = ''[[Shehar Aur Sapna]]''
| best_non_feature =
| most_wins =
| last = 10th
| next = 12th
}}

The '''11th [[National Film Awards]]''', then known as '''State Awards for Films''', presented by [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India]] to felicitate the best of [[Cinema of India|Indian Cinema]] released in 1963.<ref name="11thaward">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/103_11thNfacatalogue.pdf|title=11th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=2 September 2020|archive-date=9 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609120223/http://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/103_11thNfacatalogue.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Ceremony took place at [[Vigyan Bhavan]], [[New Delhi]] on 25 April 1964 and awards were given by then [[President of India]], Dr. [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]].

Starting with 11th National Film Awards, new category of awards for [[Filmstrip]]s, in the non-feature films section, was introduced. This category includes Prime Minister's gold medal and Certificate of Merit for second and third best educational film. Though gold medal for this category was not given. This award is discontinued over the years.<ref name="11thaward"/>

== Awards ==

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

President's gold medal for the All India Best Feature Film is now better known as [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film]], whereas President's gold medal for the Best Documentary Film is analogous to today's [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film]]. For children's films, Prime Minister's gold medal is now given as [[National Film Award for Best Children's Film]]. At the regional level, President's silver medal for Best Feature Film is now given as National Film Award for Best Feature Film in a particular language. Certificate of Merit in all the categories is discontinued over the years.

=== Feature films ===

Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For the 11th National Film Awards, a [[Bollywood|Hindi film]] ''[[Shehar Aur Sapna]]'' won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|President's gold medal for the All India Best Feature Film]]. Following were the awards given:<ref name="11thaward"/>

==== All India Award ====

For 11th National Film Awards, none of the films were awarded from Children's Films category as no film was found to be suitable. Only Certificate of Merit for Children's films was given. Following were the awards given in each category:<ref name="11thaward"/>

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:37%;"|Award
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:16%;"|Film
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:7%;"|Language
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:20%;"|Awardee(s)
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:20%;"|Cash Prize
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="3"|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|President's gold medal for the All India Best Feature Film]]
|rowspan="3"|''[[Shehar Aur Sapna]]''
|rowspan="3"|[[Hindi language|Hindi]]
|[[Film producer|Producer]]: Naya Sansar
|rowspan="2"|Gold Medal and {{INR}}20,000
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Producer: Naya Sansar
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|[[Film director|Director]]: [[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas]]
|{{INR}}5,000
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="3"|[[National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film|All India Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film]]
|rowspan="3"|''[[Nartanasala]]''
|rowspan="3"|[[Telugu language|Telugu]]
|Producer: Sridhar Rao
|rowspan="2"|Certificate of Merit and {{INR}}10,000
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Producer: [[C. Lakshmi Rajyam]]
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: [[Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao|K. Kameshwara Rao]]
|{{INR}}2,500
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|[[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Third Best Feature Film|All India Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film]]
|''[[Mahanagar]]''
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|Producer: R. D. Bansal<br/>Director: [[Satyajit Ray]]
|Certificate of Merit only
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|[[National Film Award for Best Children's Film|All India Certificate of Merit for Best Children's Film]]
|''Panch Puthliyan''
|Hindi
|Producer: [[Children's Film Society, India|Children's Film Society]]<br/>Director: [[Amit Bose]]
|Certificate of Merit only
|}

==== Regional Award ====

The awards were given to the best films made in the [[Languages of India|regional languages of India]]. For feature films in Gujarati, [[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Feature Film in Gujarati|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film]] was not given, instead Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film was awarded; whereas no award was given in [[Punjabi language]].<ref name="11thaward"/>

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:90%"
|-
! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:37%"|Award
! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:19%"|Film
! scope="col" colspan="2" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:34%"|Awardee(s)
|-
!scope="col" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;" | Producer
!scope="col" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;" | Director
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Cinema of Assam|Feature Films in Assamese]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Assamese|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''Maniram Devan''
|Apurba Chowdhury
|S. Chakravarty
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Cinema of West Bengal|Feature Films in Bengali]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''[[Uttar Falguni]]''
|[[Uttam Kumar]]
|[[Asit Sen (director)|Asit Sen]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''[[Saat Pake Bandha (1963 film)|Saat Paake Bandha]]''
|R. D. Bansal
|[[Ajoy Kar]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
|''Jatu Griha''
|[[Uttam Kumar]]
|[[Tapan Sinha]]
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Gujarati cinema|Feature Films in Gujarati]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Feature Film in Gujarati|Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film]]
|''Jevi Chhun Tevi''
|Bholanath D. Trivedi
|Gajanan Mehta
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Bollywood|Feature Films in Hindi]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''[[Bandini (film)|Bandini]]''
|Bimal Roy Productions
|[[Bimal Roy]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''[[Mere Mehboob]]''
|[[H. S. Rawail|Harnam Singh Rawail]]
|H. S. Rawail
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
|''[[Gumrah (1963 film)|Gumrah]]''
|B. R. Films
|[[Baldev Raj Chopra|B. R. Chopra]]
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Cinema of Karnataka|Feature Films in Kannada]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''[[Santha Thukaram]]''
|B. Radhakrishna
|[[Sundar Rao Nadkarni]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''[[Mangala Muhurta]]''
|U. Subba Rao
|[[M. R. Vittal]]
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Malayalam cinema|Feature Films in Malayalam]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|rowspan="3"|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film]]
|rowspan="3"|''[[Ninamaninja Kalpadukal]]''
|K. V. Bhavadas
|rowspan="3"|[[N. N. Pisharody]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|N. K. Karunakara Pillai
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|K. Parameshwaran Nair
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''[[Doctor (1963 film)|Doctor]]''
|H. H. Ebrahim
|M. S. Mani
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
|''[[Kalayum Kaminiyum]]''
|[[Merryland Studio|Neela Productions]]
|[[P. Subramaniam]]
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Marathi cinema|Feature Films in Marathi]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''Ha Majha Marg Ekla''
|[[Sudhir Phadke]]
|[[Raja Paranjape]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''Te Majhe Ghar''
|Ravindra Bhat
|Ganesh Bhat
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Cinema of Odisha|Feature Films in Odia]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Odia|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''[[Jeevan Sathi]]''
|Srinibash Paikaroy
|Prabhat Mukherjee
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''Nari''
|Narendra Kumar Mitra
|Trilochana{{efn|Trilochana consists of Narendra Kumar Mitra, Amalendu Bagehi, Kavichandra Kalicharan Patnaik}}
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Tamil cinema|Feature Films in Tamil]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''[[Naanum Oru Penn]]''
|Murugan Brothers
|[[A. C. Tirulokchandar]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''[[Karpagam]]''
|K. S. Sabarinathan
|[[K. S. Gopalakrishnan]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
|''[[Karnan (1964 film)|Karnan]]''
|[[B. R. Panthulu]]
|B. R. Panthulu
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Cinema of Andhra Pradesh|Feature Films in Telugu]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|rowspan="2"|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film]]
|rowspan="2"|''[[Lava Kusa]]''
|rowspan="2"|Lalita Sivajyoti Films
|[[C. Pullaiah]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[C. S. Rao]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''[[Amar Silpi Jakkanna]]''
|[[B. S. Ranga]]
|B. S. Ranga
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
|''[[Mooga Manasulu]]''
|C. Sundaram
|[[Adurthi Subba Rao]]
|}

=== Non-Feature films ===

Non-feature film awards were given for the documentaries, educational films and film strips made in the country. Following were the awards given:<ref name="11thaward"/>

==== Documentaries ====

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:40%;"|Award
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:15%;"|Film
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:7%;"|Language
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:20%;"|Awardee(s)
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:18%;"|Cash Prize
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="2"|[[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film|President's gold medal for the Best Documentary Film]]
|rowspan="2"|''Song of the Snow''
|rowspan="2"|[[English language|English]]
|Producer: [[Films Division of India|Films Division]]
|Gold Medal and {{INR}}4,000
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: N. S. Thapa
|{{INR}}1,000
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="2"|All India Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Documentary Film
|rowspan="2"|''Malwa''
|rowspan="2"|English
|Producer: Films Division
|Certificate of Merit and {{INR}}2,000
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: S. N. S. Sastry
|{{INR}}500
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="2"|All India Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Documentary Film
|rowspan="2"|''Jain Temples of India''
|rowspan="2"|English
|Producer: Films Division
|rowspan="2"|Certificate of Merit only
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: Arun Chaudhari
|}

==== Educational films ====

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:40%;"|Award
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:15%;"|Film
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:7%;"|Language
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:20%;"|Awardee(s)
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:18%;"|Cash Prize
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="2"|[[National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film|All India Certificate of Merit for the Best Educational Film]]
|rowspan="2"|''Indian Ocean Expedition''
|rowspan="2"|[[Hindi language|Hindi]]
|Producer: [[Children's Film Society, India|Children's Film Society]]
|rowspan="2"|Certificate of Merit only
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: Shanti S. Verma
|}

==== Filmstrip ====

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:40%;"|Award
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:18%;"|Film
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:7%;"|Language
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:20%;"|Awardee(s)
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:15%;"|Cash Prize
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="2"|[[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Filmstrip|All India Certificate of Merit for the Best Filmstrip]]
|rowspan="2"|''Historical Monuments of Delhi''
|rowspan="2"|[[Hindi language|Hindi]]
|Director: G. K. Athalye
|rowspan="2"|Certificate of Merit only
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: G. K. Athalye
|}

=== Awards not given ===

Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award:<ref name="11thaward"/>
* [[National Film Award for Best Children's Film|Prime Minister's gold medal for the Best Children's Film]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film|Prime Minister's gold medal for the Best Educational Film]]
* [[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Filmstrip|Prime Minister's gold medal for the Best Filmstrip]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Punjabi|President's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Punjabi]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

== External links ==
* [http://dff.nic.in/Archive.aspx National Film Awards Archives]
* [http://dff.nic.in Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India]

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