Special Awards



FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2024

Malgorzata Szumowska

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2023

Fallen Leaves

by Aki Kaurismaki

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2022

Drive My Car

by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

European Discovery Award 2021

Promising Young Woman

by Emerald Fennell

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2021

Cristi Puiu

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2021

Terry Gilliam

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2021

Nomadland

by Chloé Zhao

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2020

Agnieszka Holland

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2020

Ken Loach

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2019

Bille August

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2019

Arturo Ripstein

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2019

Roma

by Alfonso Cuarón

European Discovery Award 2018

Girl

by Lukas Dhont

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2018

Ildikó Enyedi

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2018

Sally Potter

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2018

Phantom Thread

by Paul Thomas Anderson

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2018

Walter Salles

European Discovery Award 2017

Lady Macbeth

by William Oldroyd

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2017

Goran Paskalievic

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2017

Lucrecia Martel

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2017

The Other Side of Hope

by Aki Kaurismaki

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2016

Béla Tarr

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2016

Toni Erdmann

by Maren Ade

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2016

Carlos Diegues

European Discovery Award 2015

Mustang

by Deniz Gamze Ergüven

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2015

Alan Parker

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2015

Jean-Jacques Annaud

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2015

Costa-Gavras

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2015

Ettore Scola

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2015

Andrzej Wajda

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2015

Edgar Reitz

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2015

Margarethe von Trotta

FIPRESCI 90 Platinum Award 2015

Nanni Moretti

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2015

Mad Max: Fury Road

by George Miller

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2015

Walter Lima Jr.

European Discovery Award 2014

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2014

Boyhood

by Richard Linklater

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2014

Guillermo Arriaga

European Discovery Award 2013

Oh Boy

by Jan Ole Gerster

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2013

Blue Is The Warmest Colour

by Abdellatif Kechiche

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2013

José Carlos Avellar

European Discovery Award 2012

Kauwboy

by Boudewijn Koole

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2012

Amour

by Michael Haneke

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2012

Luiz Carlos Barreto

European Discovery Award 2011

Oxygen

by Hans Van Nuffel

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2011

The Tree of Life

by Terrence Malick

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2011

Patricio Guzmán

Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema: Marlen Khutsiev

European Discovery Award 2010

Lebanon

by Samuel Maoz

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2010

The Ghost Writer

by Roman Polanski

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2010

Pablo Trapero

European Discovery Award 2009

Andrzej Wajda

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2009

The White Ribbon

by Michael Haneke

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2009

Marilia Pera

European Discovery Award 2008

The Secret of the Grain

by Abdellatif Kechiche

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2008

There Will Be Blood

by Paul Thomas Anderson

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2008

Arturo Ripstein

European Discovery Award 2007

Alain Resnais

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2007

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2007

Fernanda Montenegro

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2006

To Return

by Pedro Almodóvar

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2006

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

European Discovery Award 2005

Hidden

by Michael Haneke

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2005

3-Iron

by Kim Ki-duk

Latin American Lifetime Achievement Award 2005

Fernando Solanas

European Discovery Award 2004

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2004

Our Music

by Jean-Luc Godard

European Discovery Award 2003

Marco Bellocchio

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2003

Distant

by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

European Discovery Award 2002

Ken Loach

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2002

The Man Without a Past

by Aki Kaurismaki

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2001

The Circle

by Jafar Panahi

Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year 2000

Magnolia

by Paul Thomas Anderson

European Discovery Award 1998

The Powder Keg

by Goran Paskalievic

European Discovery Award 1997

Voyage to the Beginning of the World

by Manoel de Oliveira

European Discovery Award 1996

Breaking the Waves

by Lars von Trier

European Discovery Award 1995

Ulysses' Gaze

by Theodoros Angelopoulos

European Discovery Award 1994

Dear Diary

by Nanni Moretti

European Discovery Award 1993

Benny's Video

by Michael Haneke