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{{Short description|Indian ceremony celebrating cinema of 1964}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox film awards
| number = 12
| award = National Film Awards
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| awarded_for = Best of Indian cinema in 1964
| award_org = [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information and Broadcasting]]
| presenting_org = [[P. V. Cherian]]<br/>{{small|([[Governor of Maharashtra]])}}<ref name="13thaward">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/101_13thNfacatalogue.pdf|title=13th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=2 September 2020|archive-date=25 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725172334/http://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/101_13thNfacatalogue.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
| announced_date =
| presented_date = {{Start date|df=yes|1965|05|31}}<ref name="13thaward"/>
| site = [[Mumbai]]
| host =
| website = [http://dff.nic.in/ dff.nic.in]
| lifetime_achievement =
| best_feature = ''[[Charulata]]''
| best_non_feature =
| most_wins = ''Aarohi'' (2)
| last = 11th
| next = 13th
}}

The '''12th [[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 1964.<ref name="12thaward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm12thNFAAward.aspx|title=12th National Film Awards|publisher=[[International Film Festival of India]]|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225220334/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm12thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=25 February 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ceremony took place at [[Vigyan Bhavan]], [[New Delhi]] on 31 May 1965 and awards were given by then Governor of Maharashtra, [[P. V. Cherian]].<ref name="13thaward"/>

Starting with 12th National Film Awards, a new award was introduced at All India level for [[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Story|Best Story Writer]]. Also awards for films made in English and Kashmiri language are also considered for the President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in the respective language at the regional level.

== 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 12th National Film Awards, a [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] ''[[Charulata]]'' 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="12thaward"/>

==== All India Award ====

For 12th National Film Awards, none of the films were awarded from Children's Films category as no film was found to be suitable. Following were the awards given in each category:<ref name="12thaward"/>

{|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="2"|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|President's Gold Medal for the All India Best Feature Film]]
|rowspan="2"|''[[Charulata]]''
|rowspan="2"|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|[[Film producer|Producer]]: R. D. Bansal
|Gold Medal and {{INR}} 20,000
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|[[Film director|Director]]: [[Satyajit Ray]]
|{{INR}} 5,000
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="2"|All India Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|rowspan="2"|''[[Haqeeqat (1964 film)|Haqeeqat]]''
|rowspan="2"|[[Hindi language|Hindi]]
|Producer: [[Chetan Anand (director)|Chetan Anand]]
|Certificate of Merit and {{INR}} 10,000
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: Chetan Anand
|{{INR}} 2,500
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="2"|All India Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
|rowspan="2"|''[[Unnaipol Oruvan (1965 film)|Unnaipol Oruvan]]''<ref name=TOI>{{cite book|author=Times of India (Firm)|title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lEEjAQAAMAAJ|year=1965|publisher=Bennett, Coleman.|page=279|access-date=21 October 2016|archive-date=3 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603010042/https://books.google.com/books?id=lEEjAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Sarkar>{{cite book|title=Hindustan Year-book and Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KXhDAAAAYAAJ|year=1966|publisher=M. C. Sarkar.|page=332|access-date=21 October 2016|archive-date=16 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216104509/https://books.google.com/books?id=KXhDAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
|rowspan="2"|[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|Producer: Aasiya Jyothi films
|Certificate only
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: [[D. Jayakanthan]]
|Certificate only
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|[[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Story|All India Certificate of Merit for the Best Story Writer]]
|''Aarohi''<ref name=TOI/><ref name=Sarkar/>
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|[[Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay]]
|Certificate only
|}

==== Regional Award ====

The awards were given to the best films made in the [[Languages of India|regional languages of India]]. With 12th National Film Awards, two more awards were introduced for the feature films made in [[English language|English]] and [[Kashmiri language]]. These newly introduced categories includes President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film and Certificate of Merit for second and third best film, although former was not given as no film was found suitable for the award.<ref name="12thaward"/>

{|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]]
|''Pratidhwani''
|Kamrup Chitra
|[[Bhupen Hazarika]]
|- 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]]
|''Aarohi''
|Asim Pal
|[[Tapan Sinha]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''Anustup Chhanda''
|B. K. Productions
|Pijush Bose
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''Feature Films in English'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English|President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''The Avalanche''
|Serbjeet Singh
|Serbjeet Singh
|- 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]]
|''[[Dosti]]''
|[[Tarachand Barjatya]]
|[[Satyen Bose]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''[[Yaadein (1964 film)|Yaadein]]''
|[[Sunil Dutt]]
|Sunil Dutt
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
|''[[Geet Gaya Patharon Ne]]''
|V. Shantaram Productions
|[[V. Shantaram]]
|- 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]]
|''[[Chandavalliya Thota]]''
|Pals & Co.
|T. V. Singh Thakur
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|rowspan="3"|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|rowspan="3"|''[[Navajeevana|Nava Jeevana]]''
|U. S. Vadhiraj
|rowspan="3"|P. S. Moorthy
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|U. Jawahar
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Bharathi Chitra
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
|''[[Mane Aliya]]''
|[[Adurthi Subba Rao|A. Subba Rao]]
|S. K. A. Chari
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''Feature Films in Kashmiri'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Feature Film in Kashmiri|President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''Mainz-Raat''
|M. R. Seth
|Shyam and Jagiram Paul
|- 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]]
|''Pathlaag''
|[[Raja Paranjape]]
|Raja Paranjape
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''Tuka Jhalase Kalas''
|N. G. Datar
|Raja Nene
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
|''[[Sawaal Majha Aika!]]''
|Anant Govind Mane
|Anant Govind Mane
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Cinema of Orissa|Feature Films in Oriya]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Oriya|President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''Sadhana''
|Diamond Valley Production
|Prabhat Mukherjee
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''Naba Janma''
|Pancha Sakha Pictures
|Sachin Mukherji
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Cinema of Punjab|Feature Films in Punjabi]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Punjabi|President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''Jagga''
|K. B. Chadha
|Jugal Kishore
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|colspan="4"|'''''[[Cinema of Andhra Pradesh|Feature Films in Telugu]]'''''
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu|President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film]]
|''[[Doctor Chakravarthy]]''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gomolo.com/9/national-film-awards-1964 |title=National Film Awards (1964) |access-date=13 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327145101/http://www.gomolo.com/9/national-film-awards-1964 |archive-date=27 March 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|D. Madhusudhana Rao
|[[Adurthi Subba Rao]]
|- style="background-color:#FCFCFC"
|Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
|''[[Ramadasu (1964 film)|Ramadasu]]''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gomolo.com/ramadasu-movie-awards/15991 |title=National Film Awards (1964) |access-date=13 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825212638/http://www.gomolo.com/ramadasu-movie-awards/15991 |archive-date=25 August 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|[[Chittor V. Nagaiah]]
|Chittor V. Nagaiah
|}

=== Non-Feature films ===

Non-feature film awards were given for the documentaries, educational films and film strips made in the country. For 12th National Film Awards, no award was given in the filmstrip category and only Certificate of Merit was awarded for Educational Films. Following were the awards given for the non-feature films category:<ref name="12thaward"/>

==== Documentaries ====

{|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:18%;"|Awardee(s)
!style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:17%;"|Cash Prize
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="2"|All India Certificate of Merit for the Best Documentary Film
|rowspan="2"|''One Day''
|rowspan="2"|[[English language|English]]
|Producer: Jagat Murari
|Certificate of Merit and {{INR}} 1,000
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: S. N. S. Sastry
|{{INR}} 250
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="4"|All India Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Documentary Film
|rowspan="2"|''All Under Heaven By Force''
|rowspan="4"|[[English language|English]]
|Producer: J. B. H. Wadia
|rowspan="4"|Certificate of Merit only
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: J. B. H. Wadia
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|rowspan="2"|''And Miles To Go''
|Producer: S. Sukhdev
|- style="background-color:#F4F4F4"
|Director: S. Sukhdev
|}

==== Educational films ====

{|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"
|[[National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film|All India Certificate of Merit for the Best Educational Film]]
|''Sterilisation of the Female''
|[[Hindi language|Hindi]]
|Producer: [[Films Division of India|Films Division]]<br/>Director: G. H. Saraiya
|Certificate of Merit only
|}

=== Awards not given ===

Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award:<ref name="12thaward"/>
* [[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]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== 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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