72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Awards and Jury Members
Official Awards - FIAPF
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Awards
Golden Shell for Best Film
Golden Shell for Best Film
2023. 71st Edition
O corno
Jaione Camborda (Spain - Portugal - Belgium)
2022. 70th Edition
Los reyes del mundo
Laura Mora (Colombia - Luxembourg - France - Mexico - Norway)
2021. 69th Edition
Crai nou
Alina Grigore (Romania)
2020. 68th Edition
Dasatskisi
Dea Kulumbegashvili (France - Georgia)
2019. 67th Edition
Pacificado
Paxton Winters (Brazil)
2018. 66th Edition
Entre dos aguas
Isaki Lacuesta (Spain)
2017. 65th Edition
The Disaster Artist
James Franco (USA)
2016. 64th Edition
Wo Bu Shi Pan Jinlian / I Am Not Madame Bovary
Xiaogang Feng (China)
2015. 63rd Edition
Sparrows
Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland - Denmark - Croatia)
2014. 62nd Edition
Magical Girl
Carlos Vermut (Spain - France)
2013. 61st Edition
Pelo malo
Mariana Rondón (Venezuela-Peru-Germany)
2012. 60th Edition
Dans la maison
(FRANCE)
2011. 59th Edition
Los pasos dobles
Isaki Lacuesta (Spain-Switzerland)
2010. 58th Edition
Neds
Peter Mullan (UK-France-Italy)
2009. 57th Edition
City of Life and Death
Lu Chuan (China)
2008. 56th Edition
Pandoranin kutusu / Pandora’s Box
Yesim Ustaoglu (Turkey-France-Germany-Belgium)
2007. 55th Edition
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Wayne Wang (USA - Japan)
2006. 54th Edition
2005. 53rd Edition
Štĕstí
(Czech Rep. - France - Germany)
2004. 52nd Edition
Turtles Can Fly
Bahman Ghobadi (Iran-Iraq)
2003. 51st Edition
Schussangst
Dito Tsintsadze (Alemania)
2002. 50th Edition
Los lunes al sol
Fernando León de Aranoa (Spain)
2001. 49th Edition
Taxi para tres
Orlando Lübbert (Chile)
2000. 48th Edition
La perdición de los hombres
Arturo Ripstein (Mexico - Spain)
1999. 47th Edition
C'est quoi la vie?
François Dupeyron (France)
1998. 46th Edition
EL VIENTO SE LLEVO LO QUE
Alejandro Agresti (Argentina - Spain - France - The Netherlands)
1997. 45th Edition
Rien ne va plus
Claude Chabrol (France - Switzerland)
1996. 44th Edition
1995. 43rd Edition
Margaret's Museum
Mort Ransen (Canada - UK)
1994. 42nd Edition
Días contados
Imanol Uribe (Spain)
1993. 41st Edition
1992. 40th Edition
Un lugar en el mundo
Adolfo Aristarain (Argentina)
1991. 39th Edition
Alas de mariposa
Juanma Bajo Ulloa (Spain)
1990. 38th Edition
Las cartas de Alou
Montxo Armendariz (Spain)
1989. 37th Edition
1988. 36th Edition
On the Black Hill
Andrew Grieve (United Kingdom)
1987. 35th Edition
Urs al-jalil/ Noce en Galilée
Michel Khleifi (Palestine - France - Belgium)
1986. 34th Edition
La mitad del cielo
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (Spain)
1985. 33rd Edition
Yesterday
Radoslaw Piwowarski (Poland)
1984. 32nd Edition
1983. 31st Edition
1982. 30th Edition
Unofficial Awards. INTERNATIONAL CRITICS' AWARD
Demonios en el jardín
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (Spain)
1981. 29th Edition
1980. 28th Edition
1979. 27th Edition
Osenniy marafon
Georgiy Daneliya (USSR)
1978. 26th Edition
Alambrista!
Robert M. Young (USA)
1977. 25th Edition
Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino
Nikita Mijalkov (USSR)
1976. 24th Edition
Tabor ujodit v niebo
Emil Loteanu (USSR)
1975. 23rd Edition
Furtivos
José Luis Borau (Spain)
1974. 22nd Edition
Badlands
Terrence Malick (USA)
1973. 21st Edition
El espíritu de la colmena
Víctor Erice (Spain)
1972. 20th Edition
The Glass House
Tom Gries (USA)
1971. 19th Edition
Le genou de Claire
Éric Rohmer (France)
1970. 18th Edition
Ondata di calore
Nelo Risi (Italy)
1969. 17th Edition
The Rain People
Francis Ford Coppola (USA)
1968. 16th Edition
The Long Day's Dying
Peter Collinson (United Kingdom)
1967. 15th Edition
Two for the Road
Stanley Donen (USA)
1966. 14th Edition
I Was Happy Here
Desmond Davis (United Kingdom)
1965. 13rd Edition
1964. 12nd Edition
America America
Elia Kazan (USA)
1963. 11st Edition
Mafioso
Alberto Lattuada (Italy)
1962. 10th Edition
L'isola di Arturo
Damiano Damiani (Italy)
1961. 9th Edition
One-Eyed Jacks
Marlon Brando (USA)
1960. 8th Edition
Romeo, Julie a tma
Jirí Weiss (Czechoslovakia)
1959. 7th Edition
The Nun's Story
Fred Zinnermann (USA)
1958. 6th Edition
Ewa chce spac
Tadeusz Chmielewski (Poland)
1957. 5th Edition
La nonna Sabella
Dino Risi (Italy)
1956. 4th Edition
1955. 3rd Edition
Giorni d'amore
Giuseppe de Santis (Italy)
1954. 2nd Edition
Sierra maldita
Antonio del Amo (Spain)
1953. 1st Edition
La guerra de Dios
Rafael Gil (Spain)
Official awards - FIAPF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Mads Mikkelsen,Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe
Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark - Sweden - Netherlands)
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
| Official Selection Jury Members |
The Official Jury must grant the following awards:
- Golden Shell for Best Film (for the producer)
- Silver Shell for Best Director
- Silver Shell for Best Actress
- Silver Shell for Best Actor
- Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
- Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
The Official Jury is also free to grant a Special Prize to the film which it considers worthy of receiving the award for any reason, and must state the grounds for its decision.
The Golden Shell cannot be awarded ex-aequo.
The Official Awards will be announced and presented at the Festival Closing Gala.
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