High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 49th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organization set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 2001. Awards were announced by the committee headed by K. S. Sethumadhavan, K. K. Kapil and Bharat Gopy for the feature films, non-feature films and books written on Indian cinema, respectively, on July 26, 2002; whereas award ceremony took place on February 23rd, 2003 and awards were given away by then President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.