Awards - San Sebastián International Film Festival - 1953-1963
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
Film Festivals
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival
- Miami Film Festival
- Cannes Film Festival
- Venice Film Festival
- Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Toronto International 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
- Montreal World 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
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
1963 - 11st San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Mafioso (Alberto Lattuada)
- Au coeur de la vie (Robert Enrico)
- The Magic World of Topo Gigio (Federico Caldura)
- Das Feuerschiff (Ladislao Vajda)
- Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards)
- From Pink to Yellow (Manuel Summers)
- Dime with a Halo (Boris Sagal)
- El tejedor de milagros (Francisco del Villar)
- The Day and the Hour (René Clément)
- Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon)
- Los inconstantes (Rodolfo Kuhn)
- Los viciosos (Enrique Carreras)
- 8½ (Federico Fellini)
- Sono jo wa wasurenai (Kôzaburô Yoshimura)
- The L-Shaped Room (Bryan Forbes)
- The Mouse on the Moon (Richard Lester)
- Toys in the Attic (George Roy Hill)
- A Milanese Story (Eriprando Visconti)
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)
Golden Shell for Best Short Film
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Silver Shell
Best Spanish Language Film
Best Spanish Language Short Film
1962 - 10th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- L'isola di Arturo (Damiano Damiani)
- All Night Long (Basil Dearden)
- Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson)
- Finden sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält? (Tom Pevsner)
- Die Parallelstrasse (Ferdinand Khittl)
- Man on Pink Corner (René Múgica)
- El sol en el espejo (Antonio Román)
- The Immoral Moment (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze)
- El último montonero (Catrano Catrani)
- Le Soleil dans l'oeil (Jacques Bourdon)
- Pueblito (Emilio Fernández)
- Careless (Mauro Bolognini)
- The Miracle Worker (Arthur Penn)
- Waltz of the Toreadors (John Guillermin)
Golden Shell for Best Short Film
Best Short Film Special Mention
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Silver Shell
Best Spanish Language Film
Best Spanish Language Short Film
1961 - 9th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Wolfgang Reitherman)
- Raça (Augusto Fraga)
- Crook and the Cross (Axel von Ambesser)
- Hijo de hombre (Lucas Demare)
- Hollywood: The Golden Years (David L. Wolper)
- The Mongols (André De Toth, Riccardo Freda, Leopoldo Savona)
- Il sicario (Damiano Damiani)
- Unexpected (Alberto Lattuada)
- Pursuit Across the Desert (Gilberto Gazcón)
- Les Honneurs de la guerre (Jean Dewever)
- Milagro a los cobardes (Manuel Mur Oti)
- Odwiedziny prezydenta (Jan Batory)
- The Naked Edge (Michael Anderson)
- Very Important Person (Ken Annakin)
- Všude žijí lidé (Jiří Hanibal, Štěpán Skalský)
Golden Shell for Best Short Film
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Silver Shell
Best Spanish Language Film
Best Spanish Language Short Film
1960 - 8th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Jiří Weiss)
- The Battle of Austerlitz (Abel Gance)
- Back to the Door (José María Forqué)
- Der Jugendrichter (Paul Verhoeven)
- El lazarillo de Tormes (César Fernández Ardavín)
- I Was Born in Buenos Aires (Francisco Múgica)
- The Magliari (Francesco Rosi)
- Il rossetto (Damiano Damiani)
- La Millième Fenêtre (Robert Ménégoz)
- La mentira tiene cabellos rojos (Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi)
- The Testament of Orpheus or Don't Ask Me Why (Jean Cocteau)
- The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden)
- Luna Park (Rubén W. Cavalloti)
- Miejsce na ziemi (Stanisław Różewicz)
- Nammina Bantu (Adurthi Subba Rao)
- Hidden Paradise (Mauricio de la Serna, Raphael J. Sevilla)
- Robo no ishi (久松静児)
- Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford)
- Simitrio (Emilio Gómez Muriel)
- The Fugitive Kind (Sidney Lumet)
- Yo quiero vivir contigo (Carlos Rinaldi)
Golden Shell for Best Short Film
Silver Shell for Best Actor
- Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Jack Hawkins, Roger Livesey, Nigel Patrick (The League of Gentlemen)
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Silver Shell
Silver Shell Special Mention
Best Spanish Language Film
Best Spanish Language Short Film
Homenaje del jurado por el conjunto de su obra
1959 - 7th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann)
- 800 Leagues Over the Amazon (Emilio Gómez Muriel)
- A Luz Vem do Alto (Henrique Campos)
- For Whom the Larks Sing (László Ranódy)
- Ragpicker's Angel (Heinosuke Gosho)
- Among the Ruins (Ezzel Dine Zulficar)
- Caín adolescente (Román Chalbaud)
- Dagli Appennini alle Ande (Folco Quilici)
- The Rest is Silence (Helmut Käutner)
- Die Feuerrote Baronesse (Rudolf Jugert)
- Insan Jaag Utha (Shakti Samanta)
- Malkata (Nikola Korabov)
- Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (Jean Delannoy)
- North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Prisoner 1040 (Rubén W. Cavalloti)
- Leap to Fame (León Klimovsky)
- Sam (Vladimir Pogacic)
- Sapphire (Basil Dearden)
- Shake Hands with the Devil (Michael Anderson)
- Death in the Saddle (Jindřich Polák)
- Tutti innamorati (Franco Rossi)
- Verbrechen nach Schulschluß (Alfred Vohrer)
- Answer to Violence (Jerzy Passendorfer)
Golden Shell for Best Short Film
Best Short Film Special Mention
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Silver Shell
Silver Shell Special Mention
Best Spanish Language Film
Best Spanish Language Short Film
1958 - 6th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Ewa chce spać (Tadeusz Chmielewski)
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk)
- Culpables (Arturo Ruiz Castillo)
- Demasiado jóvenes (Leopoldo Torres Ríos)
- Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino (Harald Reinl)
- El caso de una adolescente (Emilio Gómez Muriel)
- El hereje (Francisco de Borja Moro)
- Vuur, liefde en vitaminen (Jef Bruyninckx)
- This is the Love (Salah Abouseif)
- Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli)
- La laguna de los deseos (Georges A. Dervos)
- Life Together (Clément Duhour)
- El milagro de sal (Luis Moya Sarmiento)
- Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki)
- Nata di marzo (Antonio Pietrangeli)
- Nine Lives (Arne Skouen)
- Orders to Kill (Anthony Asquith)
- Schwarze Augen (Paul Martin)
- Be Beautiful But Shut Up (Marc Allégret)
- The Vikings (Richard Fleischer)
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Violent Playground (Basil Dearden)
- Invention for Destruction (Karel Zeman)
Golden Shell for Best Short Film
Best Short Film Special Mention
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Silver Shell
Best Spanish Language Film Special Mention
1957 - 5th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- La nonna Sabella (Dino Risi)
- A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald)
- The Flying Dutchman (Gerard Rutten)
- Vintage Car (Alfréd Radok)
- Air Heroes (Ramón Torrado)
- Triple Deception (Guy Green)
- Ich suche dich (Otto-Wilhelm Fischer)
- L' Oceano ci chiama (Giorgio Ferroni, Giovanni Roccardi)
- Boy's Town (Gilberto Martínez Solares)
- Le Feu aux poudres (Henri Decoin)
- Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
- Pablo y Carolina (Mauricio de la Serna)
- Footsteps (Clemente Pamplona)
- S.O.S. Noronha (Georges Rouquier)
Golden Shell for Best Short Film
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Silver Shell
Silver Shell Short Film
1956 - 4th San Sebastian IFF
Best Film - Foreign Film
- Man of Iron (Pietro Germi)
- The Woman in the Painting (Franco Rossi)
- Deadly Decision (Alfred Weidenmann)
- Heidi und Peter (Franz Schnyder)
- The Grand Maneuver (René Clair)
- Riscatto (Marino Girolami)
- If All the Guys in the World... (Christian-Jaque)
- Marriage a la Mode (Sidney Gilliat)
- Tosca (Carmine Gallone)
- The Unknown Soldier (Edvin Laine)
- Un po' di cielo (Giorgio Moser)
Best Director - Foreign Film
Best Screenplay - Foreign Film
Best Actor - Foreign Film
Best Actress - Foreign Film
Best Color Cinematography - Foreign Film
Best Film - Spanish Film
- Ritorno alla vita (José Antonio Nieves Conde)
- Hospital of Urgency (Antonio Santillán)
- Flames Against the Wind (Emilio Gómez Muriel)
- Música en la noche (Tito Davison)
- Le Feu des passions (Arturo Ruiz Castillo)
Best Director - Spanish Film
Best Screenplay - Spanish Film
Best Actor - Spanish Film
Best Cinematography - Spanish Film
Best Short Film - Spanish Film
1955 - 3rd San Sebastian IFF
Special Mention
Best Feature Film Using Color
- Days of Love (Giuseppe De Santis)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer)
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Jacques Becker)
- Fatal Desire (Carmine Gallone)
- Contraband Spain (Lawrence Huntington, Julio Salvador)
- Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld (Hans Deppe)
- Doctor in the House (Ralph Thomas)
- Fortune carrée (Bernard Borderie)
- La grande speranza (Duilio Coletti)
- The Miller's Saucy Wife (León Klimovsky)
- Mademoiselle de Paris (Walter Kapps)
- The Private War of Major Benson (Jerry Hopper)
- The Island Princess (Paolo Moffa)
Best Short Film Using Color
1954 - 2nd San Sebastian IFF
Best Film
- Cursed Mountain (Antonio del Amo)
- Cuando me vaya (Tito Davison)
- El abuelo (Román Viñoly Barreto)
- Julietta (Marc Allégret)
- La danza de los deseos (Florián Rey)
- La patrulla (Pedro Lazaga)
- Le Grand Pavois (Jacques Pinoteau)
- The Sheep Has Five Legs (Henri Verneuil)
- Maddalena (Augusto Genina)
- Maske in Blau (Georg Jacoby)
- The Black Shield of Falworth (Rudolph Maté)
- The Rainbow Jacket (Basil Dearden)
- The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey)
- Viento del norte (Antonio Momplet)
- Weg ohne Umkehr (Victor Vicas)
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Special Mention
1953 - 1st San Sebastian IFF
Best Film
- La guerra de Dios (Rafael Gil)
- Remember to Live (Roberto Gavaldón)
- Carne de horca (Ladislao Vajda)
- Golden Marie (Jacques Becker)
- White Mane (Albert Lamorisse)
- Dos caminos (Arturo Ruiz Castillo)
- Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)
- Hay un camino a la derecha (Francisco Rovira Beleta)
- House of Wax (André De Toth)
- La pasión desnuda (Luis César Amadori)
- The Little World of Don Camillo (Julien Duvivier)
- The Lovers of Verona (André Cayatte)
- The Proud and the Beautiful (Yves Allégret)
- Green Magic (Gian Gaspare Napolitano)
- Misión extravagante (Ricardo Gascón)
- Nous sommes tous des assassins (André Cayatte)
- The Adultress (Marcel Carné)
- Top Secret (Mario Zampi)
- Traviata '53 (Vittorio Cottafavi)