<Ul> <Li> ← 64th </Li> <Li> National Film Awards </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <Li> National Film Awards </Li> <P> The 65th National Film Awards ceremony is an event during which the Directorate of Film Festivals presented its annual National Film Awards by The President of Republic Of India to honour the best films of 2017 in Indian cinema . The awards were announced on 13 April 2018 . The awards ceremony was held on 3 May 2018 . </P> <P> The Directorate of Film Festivals invited online entries and the acceptable last date for entries was until 2 March 2018 . Feature and Non-Feature Films certified by Central Board of Film Certification between 1 January 2017, and 31 December 2017, were eligible for the film award categories . Books, critical studies, reviews or articles on cinema published in Indian newspapers, magazines, and journals between 1 January 2017, and 31 December 2017, were eligible for the best writing on cinema section . Entries of dubbed, revised or copied versions of a film or translation, abridgements, edited or annotated works and reprints were ineligible for the awards . </P>

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