Awards - San Sebastián International Film Festival - 1984-1993
Film Festivals
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Montreal World Film Festival
- Cannes Film Festival
- Venice Film Festival
- Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF)
- Zurich Film Festival
- San Sebastián International Film Festival
- Sitges Film Festival
- Shanghai International Film Festival
- Warsaw International Film Festival
- Miami Film Festival
- Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)
- Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
- Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
- Zlín Film Festival
- FAMUfest
- Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund
- Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival
National Awards
- Academy Awards
- Independent Spirit Awards
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
- European Film Awards
- César Awards
- Goya Awards
- German Film Awards
- Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- Jussi Awards
- Czech Lion Awards
- Sun in a Net Awards
- Polish Film Awards
- Hungarian Motion Picture Awards (Hungarian Film Awards)
- Filmfare Awards
- Guldbagge Awards
- Amanda Awards
- AACTA International Awards
- Hong Kong Film Awards
Critics Awards
- Golden Globes
- Critics Choice Awards
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- Czech Film Critics Awards
Genre / Special Awards
Anti-awards
1993 - 41st San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- The Beginning and the End (Arturo Ripstein)
- Sara (Dariush Mehrjui)
- Dollar Mambo (Paul Leduc)
- Dunkle Schatten der Angst (Konstantin Schmidt)
- The Devil's Breath (Paco Lucio)
- A Light-Sensitive Story (Pál Erdőss)
- Golden Balls (Bigas Luna)
- In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen)
- Just Friends (Marc-Henri Wajnberg)
- Madregilda (Francisco Regueiro)
- Manhattan by Numbers (Amir Naderi)
- Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)
- Diary in a Marble (Jan Kidawa-Błoński)
- Tafelspitz (Xaver Schwarzenberger)
- The Firm (Sydney Pollack)
- The Harvest (David Marconi)
- Tombés du ciel (Philippe Lioret)
- Moonlight Boy (Wei-yen Yu)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Jury Special Mention
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
1992 - 40th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- A Place in the World (Adolfo Aristarain)
- Bitter Moon (Roman Polański)
- Der Nachbar (Götz Spielmann)
- Le Maître d'escrime (Pedro Olea)
- Goldberg Variations (Ferenc Grunwalsky)
- El patrullero (Alex Cox)
- Il Giardino dei ciliegi (Antonello Aglioti)
- Inside Monkey Zetterland (Jefery Levy)
- The Anonymous Queen (Gonzalo Suárez)
- La Tarea prohibida (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo)
- Moscow Parade (Ivan Dykhovichnyy)
- Single White Female (Barbet Schroeder)
- The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (Ben Lewin)
- The Footstep Man (Leon Narbey)
- The Legend of Icons (Rodoh Seji)
- The Player (Robert Altman)
- Tito and Me (Goran Markovic)
- Unlawful Entry (Jonathan Kaplan)
- Verlorene Landschaft (Andreas Kleinert)
- Zwolnieni z zycia (Waldemar Krzystek)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell
- Tito and Me (Dimitrije Vojnov) Za dětskou roli.
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
Documentary Award
1991 - 39th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Alas de mariposa (Juanma Bajo Ulloa)
- Atto di dolore (Pasquale Squitieri)
- Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
- Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton)
- Le Diable à quatre (Giorgio Ferrara)
- Closet Land (Radha Bharadwaj)
- The Great Day on the Beach (Stellan Olsson)
- Erster Verlust (Maxim Dessau)
- Highway 61 (Bruce McDonald)
- I Was on Mars (Dani Levy)
- Kamigata Kugaizoshi (Tetsutaro Murano)
- The Longest Night (José Luis García Sánchez)
- Els papers d'Aspern (Jordi Cadena)
- Mala yerba (José Luis Pérez Tristán)
- Meeting Venus (István Szabó)
- Nevozvrashchenec (Sergey Snezhkin)
- Scorchers (David Beaird)
- Shuttlecock (Andrew Piddington)
- Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (Wojciech Marczewski)
- Un Nos Ola' Leuad (Endaf Emlyn)
- Red Fairground (György Molnár)
- Waiting (Jackie McKimmie)
- Zombie and the Ghost Train (Mika Kaurismäki)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
Documentary Award
1990 - 38th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Letters from Alou (Montxo Armendáriz)
- Ach, Boris... (Niki List)
- Ava & Gabriel - Un historia di amor (Felix de Rooy)
- Bakenbardy (Yuri Mamin)
- Bütün Kapılar Kapalıydı (Memduh Ün)
- Against the Wind (Paco Periñán)
- Hidden Agenda (Ken Loach)
- An Immoral Story (Barbara Sass)
- Aventure de Catherine C. (Pierre Beuchot)
- The King's Whore (Axel Corti)
- La settimana della sfinge (Daniele Luchetti)
- Luba (Alejandro Agresti)
- Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
- Motivsuche (Dietmar Hochmuth)
- Nie im Leben (Helmut Berger)
- Presumed Innocent (Alan J. Pakula)
- Dolly and Her Lover (Matti Ijäs)
- Black River (Atahualpa Lichy)
- Red Dawn (Jorge Fons)
- The Freshman (Andrew Bergman)
- Time of Miracles (Goran Paskaljevic)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
1989 - 37th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Homer & Eddie
(Andrey Konchalovskiy)La nación clandestina
(Jorge Sanjinés)Golden Shell for Best Film
- Homer & Eddie (Andrey Konchalovskiy)
- La nación clandestina (Jorge Sanjinés)
- Batman (Tim Burton)
- The Sea and the Weather (Fernando Fernán Gómez)
- Eterna sonrisa de New Jersey (Carlos Sorin)
- Great Balls of Fire! (Jim McBride)
- Il Maestro (Marion Hänsel)
- Ke arteko egunak (Antonio Eceiza)
- Konsul (Mirosław Bork)
- The Black Moon (Imanol Uribe)
- Papeles secundarios (Orlando Rojas)
- Ledi Makbet Mcenskogo ujezda (Roman Balayan)
- Queen of Hearts (Jon Amiel)
- Samsara (Jianxin Huang)
- If They Tell You I Fell (Vicente Aranda)
- Samuel Fuller's Street of No Return (Samuel Fuller)
- That Summer of White Roses (Rajko Grlic)
- The Abyss (James Cameron)
- True Love (Nancy Savoca)
- Stand off (Gyula Gazdag)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
Prize San Sebastián
1988 - 36th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- On the Black Hill (Andrew Grieve)
- August (Jorge Silva Melo)
- Cartas del parque (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
- Winter Diary (Francisco Regueiro)
- Scent of a Crime (Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi)
- Frantic (Roman Polański)
- A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- La amiga (Jeanine Meerapfel)
- The Wolf's Mouth (Francisco J. Lombardi)
- Land der Väter, Land der Söhne (Nico Hofmann)
- Misadventure (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón)
- Married to the Mob (Jonathan Demme)
- Mr. Muhsin (Yavuz Turgul)
- Tomorrow (黒木和雄)
- Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
- Rowing in the Wind (Gonzalo Suárez)
- In the Shadow of Fear (Giorgos Karypidis)
- Stormy Monday (Mike Figgis)
- Sunset (Blake Edwards)
- Testimony (Tony Palmer)
- The Fruit Machine (Philip Saville)
- The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
- Wherever You Are (Krzysztof Zanussi)
- Zhen Un (Jian-zhong Huang)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
Prize San Sebastián
1987 - 35th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Wedding in Galilee (Michel Khleifi)
- Barbablú, Barbablú (Fabio Carpi)
- Brand New Day (Amos Gitai)
- Candy Mountain (Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer)
- Chi c'è c'è (Piero Natoli)
- Crazy Love (Dominique Deruddere)
- The Animated Forest (José Luis Cuerda)
- El Lute: Run for Your Life (Vicente Aranda)
- Roofs At Dawn (János Dömölky)
- High Season (Clare Peploe)
- Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
- La Bamba (Luis Valdez)
- La furia de un dios (Felipe Cazals)
- Pěsti ve tmě (Jaroslav Soukup)
- Slam Dance (Wayne Wang)
- Strategija svrake (Zlatko Lavanic)
- The Believers (John Schlesinger)
- The Magic Toyshop (David Wheatley)
- The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
- Iron Earth, Copper Sky (Zülfü Livaneli)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Silver Shell
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
1986 - 34th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Half of Heaven (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón)
- 27 Hours (Montxo Armendáriz)
- The Great Generation (Ferenc András)
- Aliens (James Cameron)
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
- L'Empire de la fortune (Arturo Ripstein)
- Voyage to Nowhere (Fernando Fernán Gómez)
- Fuete (Vladimir Vasilev, Boris Vladimirovich Yermolayev)
- Francesca è mia (Roberto Russo)
- Hard Traveling (Dan Bessie)
- Man Facing Southeast (Eliseo Subiela)
- Inspector Lavardin (Claude Chabrol)
- Lady Jane (Trevor Nunn)
- Such a Long Absence (Stavros Tsiolis)
- A Promise (Yoshishige Yoshida)
- Short Circuit (John Badham)
- Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox)
- Srečna nova '49 (Stole Popov)
- Welcome in Vienna - Partie 3 : Welcome in Vienna (Axel Corti)
Golden Shell for Best Short Film
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
1985 - 33rd San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Yesterday (Radosław Piwowarski)
- Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
- Cocoon (Ron Howard)
- Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman)
- Beyond the Walls (Miguel Picazo)
- Figlio mio infinitamente caro (Valentino Orsini)
- Golfo de Vizcaya (Javier Rebollo)
- The City and the Dogs (Francisco J. Lombardi)
- The Court of the Pharaoh (José Luis García Sánchez)
- La Vie de famille (Jacques Doillon)
- The Old Music (Mario Camus)
- Les Trottoirs de Saturne (Hugo Santiago)
- Days in June (Alberto Fischerman)
- Los motivos de Luz (Felipe Cazals)
- Male and Female (Mauricio Walerstein)
- On a Narrow Bridge (Nissim Dayan)
- Turn of the Screw (Eloy de la Iglesia)
- Prizzi's Honor (John Huston)
- Ran (黒澤明)
- Silverado (Lawrence Kasdan)
- The Shadow of the Ferns (František Vláčil)
- Zina (Ken McMullen)
Golden Shell for Best Short Film
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
1984 - 32nd San Sebastian IFF
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
FIPRESCI Award
Official Selection
- Cangrejo (Román Chalbaud)
- Côté coeur, côté jardin (Bertrand Van Effenterre)
- Crónica dos Bons Malandros (Fernando Lopes)
- Cuarteles de invierno (Lautaro Murúa)
- Czas dojrzewania (Mieczyslaw Waskowski)
- Close Behind the Door (Mansur Madavi)
- Swann in Love (Volker Schlöndorff)
- Fandy, ó Fandy (Karel Kachyňa)
- Fanny Straw-Top (Vicente Aranda)
- Frevel (Peter Fleischmann)
- The Future Is Woman (Marco Ferreri)
- The Most Beautiful Night (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón)
- Moscow on the Hudson (Paul Mazursky)
- Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
- Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Tasio (Montxo Armendáriz)
- The Grey Fox (Phillip Borsos)
- Return from Orbit (Aleksandr Surin)
- Wrong Timing (Panos Papakyriakopoulos)