24th National Film Awards

24th National Film Awards
Awarded for	Best of Indian cinema in 1976
Presented by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Official website	dff.nic.in
Best Feature Film	Mrugaya
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The 24th 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 1976.

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

Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 24th National Film Awards, a Hindi film, Mrugaya won the President's Gold Medal for the All India Best Feature Film. Following were the awards given in each category:

Following were the awards given:

The awards were given to the best films made in the regional languages of India.

All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award