Awards - San Sebastián International Film Festival - 1994-2003
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
2003 - 51st San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Schussangst (Dito Tsintsadze)
- The Inheritance (Per Fly)
- Red Sunset (Edgardo Cozarinsky)
- The Galíndez File (Gerardo Herrero)
- In the City (Cesc Gay)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber)
- Grimm (Alex van Warmerdam)
- The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
- Noviembre (Achero Mañas)
- The Middle of the World (Vicente Amorim)
- What the Eye Doesn't See (Francisco J. Lombardi)
- Open Range (Kevin Costner)
- Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
- Habana Suite (Fernando Pérez)
- SuperTex (Jan Schütte)
- Take My Eyes (Icíar Bollaín)
- The Station Agent (Tom McCarthy)
- Veronica Guerin (Joel Schumacher)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
- Michaela Pavlátová (Faithless Games)
- Stefan Hillebrand, Oliver Paulus (When the Right One Comes Along)
Arte Award
Horizons Award
Horizons Award – Special Mention
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
Films in Progress Award
FIPRESCI Award
FIPRESCI Film of the Year
SIGNIS Award
SIGNIS Award Special Mention
SIGNIS Future Talent Award
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
Sebastiane Award
CICAE Award
CEC Award for Best Film
2002 - 50th San Sebastian IFF
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
Jessica Lange
()Bob Hoskins
()Francis Ford Coppola
() Zvláštní ocenění 50tého ročníku.Golden Shell for Best Film
- Mondays in the Sun (Fernando León de Aranoa)
- Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer (Isaac-Pierre Racine, Agustí Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann)
- Auto Focus (Paul Schrader)
- Jet Lag (Danièle Thompson)
- The Crime Of Father Amaro (Carlos Carrera)
- El leyton (Gonzalo Justiniano)
- Open Hearts (Susanne Bier)
- The Winter Song (Farhad Mehranfar)
- The Sea (Baltasar Kormákur)
- Together (Kaige Chen)
- Minimal Stories (Carlos Sorin)
- Ghost River (Olivier Dahan)
- The Lover (Valeriy Todorovskiy)
- Lugares comunes (Adolfo Aristarain)
- Octavia (Basilio Martín Patino)
- Pigs Will Fly (Eoin Moore)
- The Good Thief (Neil Jordan)
- Suriyothai (Chatrichalerm Yukol)
- Umi wa miteita (Kei Kumai)
- Whale Rider (Niki Caro)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
- Jessica Lange
- Bob Hoskins
- Dennis Hopper
- Francis Ford Coppola Zvláštní ocenění 50tého ročníku.
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
Made in Spanish Award
Made in Spanish Award Special Mention
Films in Progress Award
FIPRESCI Award
FIPRESCI Award Special Mention
FIPRESCI Film of the Year
SIGNIS Award
SIGNIS Award Special Mention
SIGNIS Future Talent Award
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
Sebastiane Award
CICAE Award
CEC Award for Best Film
2001 - 49th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Taxi para tres (Orlando Lübbert)
- Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (Carlos Saura)
- Butterfly Smile (Jianjun He)
- C'est la vie (Jean-Pierre Améris)
- Work in Progress (José Luis Guerín)
- Escape to Paradise (Nino Jacusso)
- Truly Human (Åke Sandgren)
- Hotel (Mike Figgis)
- Mad Love (Vicente Aranda)
- La fuga (Eduardo Mignogna)
- Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
- Last Orders (Fred Schepisi)
- Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (Philippe Harel)
- Magonia (Ineke Smits)
- The Grey Zone (Tim Blake Nelson)
- The Safety of Objects (Rose Troche)
- The Warrior (Asif Kapadia)
- Visible Secret (Ann Hui)
- Visionarios (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
Made in Spanish Award
FIPRESCI Award
FIPRESCI Award Special Mention
FIPRESCI Film of the Year
OCIC Award
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
Sebastiane Award
CEC Award for Best Film
2000 - 48th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- The Ruination of Men (Arturo Ripstein)
- Alaska.de (Esther Gronenborn)
- Barking Dogs Never Bite (Joon-ho Bong)
- Country (Kevin Liddy)
- The Other Side (Salvador García Ruiz)
- Before the Storm (Reza Parsa)
- Harrison's Flowers (Elie Chouraqui)
- Face (阪本順治)
- Common Wealth (Álex de la Iglesia)
- The Crimson Rivers (Mathieu Kassovitz)
- One of the Hollywood Ten (Karl Francis)
- Paria (Nicolas Klotz)
- Plenilune (Imanol Uribe)
- Shiner (John Irvin)
- Without a Trace (María Novaro)
- Under the Sand (François Ozon)
- The Weight of Water (Kathryn Bigelow)
- Red Ink (Francisco J. Lombardi)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
FIPRESCI Award
FIPRESCI Award Special Mention
FIPRESCI Film of the Year
OCIC Award
OCIC Award Special Mention
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
Sebastiane Award
CEC Award for Best Film
1999 - 47th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- C'est quoi la vie ? (François Dupeyron)
- A Map of the World (Scott Elliott)
- Cuando vuelvas a mi lado (Gracia Querejeta)
- Jaime (António-Pedro Vasconcelos)
- Jonas et Lila, à demain (Alain Tanner)
- Butterfly (José Luis Cuerda)
- La Maladie de Sachs (Michel Deville)
- Miss Julie (Mike Figgis)
- Mumford (Lawrence Kasdan)
- Nichts als die Wahrheit (Roland Suso Richter)
- Onegin (Martha Fiennes)
- Orfeu (Carlos Diegues)
- Soft Fruit (Christina Andreef)
- The Crossing (Nora Hoppe)
- Raven... Nevermore, The (Tinieblas González)
- The Red Ribbon (Ebrahim Hatamikia)
- Under the Sun (Colin Nutley)
- Volavérunt (Bigas Luna)
- Shower (Yang Zhang)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Jury Special Mention
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
FIPRESCI Award
FIPRESCI Award Special Mention
FIPRESCI Film of the Year
OCIC Award
OCIC Award Special Mention
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
CEC Award for Best Screenplay
1998 - 46th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Wind with the Gone (Alejandro Agresti)
- A Kind of Hush (Brian Stirner)
- Where the Heart Is (Robert Guédiguian)
- After Life (Hirokazu Kore'eda)
- Barrio (Fernando León de Aranoa)
- Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- Daan (Abolfazl Jalili)
- Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas)
- Frontera Sur (Gerardo Herrero)
- Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
- No se lo digas a nadie (Francisco J. Lombardi)
- Sliding Doors (Peter Howitt)
- Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
- The Tale of Sweety Barrett (Stephen Bradley)
- The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell)
- Under a Spell (Carlos Carrera)
- Very Bad Things (Peter Berg)
- Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Prize of the Jury
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
FIPRESCI Award
FIPRESCI Award Special Mention
OCIC Award
OCIC Award Special Mention
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
CEC Award for Best Screenplay
Alma Award for Best Screenplay
Alma Award for Best Screenplay - Honorable Mention
1997 - 45th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- The Swindle (Claude Chabrol)
- Afterglow (Alan Rudolph)
- Ashes from Paradise (Marcelo Piñeyro)
- Die Schuld der Liebe (Andreas Gruber)
- El color de las nubes (Mario Camus)
- Firelight (William Nicholson)
- Men with Guns (John Sayles)
- I Went Down (Paddy Breathnach)
- J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici (Xavier Durringer)
- Lolita (Adrian Lyne)
- Martín (Hache) (Adolfo Aristarain)
- Mrs Dalloway (Marleen Gorris)
- My Best Friend's Wedding (P.J. Hogan)
- Berlin Niagara (Peter Sehr)
- Pandemonium, la capital del infierno (Román Chalbaud)
- Passion in the Desert (Lavinia Currier)
- Stage Fright (Steve Box)
- The Game (David Fincher)
- Victory (Mark Peploe)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Prize of the Jury
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
- Andrés Wood (Historias de fútbol)
- Anja Murmann (15 Months in May)
- Farhad Mehranfar (Paper Airplanes)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
FIPRESCI Award
FIPRESCI Award Special Mention
OCIC Award
OCIC Award Special Mention
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
CEC Award for Best Screenplay
Alma Award for Best Screenplay
1996 - 44th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Bwana (Imanol Uribe)
- Trojan Eddie (Gillies MacKinnon)
- Under the Skin (Francisco J. Lombardi)
- Beautiful Girls (Ted Demme)
- Blood and Wine (Bob Rafelson)
- Capitaine Conan (Bertrand Tavernier)
- Robert Rylands' Last Journey (Gracia Querejeta)
- Engelchen (Helke Misselwitz)
- Hotel paura (Renato De Maria)
- Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (Mira Nair)
- The Father (Majid Majidi)
- Autumn Sun (Eduardo Mignogna)
- Taxi (Carlos Saura)
- The Emperor's Shadow (Xiaowen Zhou)
- The Fan (Tony Scott)
- Tieta do Agreste (Carlos Diegues)
- Your Name Poisons My Dreams (Pilar Miró)
- Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (Trevor Nunn)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Special Jury Prize
Jury Special Mention
- Capitaine Conan (Guy-Claude François) Za výpravu filmu.
- Taxi (Ingrid Rubio) Za její výkon ve filmu.
Prize of the Jury
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
FIPRESCI Award
OCIC Award
OCIC Award Special Mention
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
CEC Award for Best Screenplay
1995 - 43rd San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Margaret's Museum (Mort Ransen)
- A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuarón)
- A Walk in the Clouds (Alfonso Arau)
- Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
- Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
- El palomo cojo (Jaime de Armiñán)
- Elle (Valeria Sarmiento)
- Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door (Jahnu Barua)
- Zero Kelvin (Hans Petter Moland)
- The Flower of My Secret (Pedro Almodóvar)
- The Horseman on the Roof (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
- Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
- On the Beat (Ying Ning)
- Mujeres insumisas (Alberto Isaac)
- My Family (Gregory Nava)
- Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto (Agustín Díaz Yanes)
- The Journey (Alireza Raisian)
- Schlafes Bruder (Joseph Vilsmaier)
- The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
- The Near Room (David Hayman)
- The Net (Irwin Winkler)
- Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland)
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
1994 - 42nd San Sebastian IFF
Special Jury Prize
Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen
(Andreas Gruber)Second Best
(Chris Menges)Golden Shell for Best Film
- Días contados (Imanol Uribe)
- Tender Heart (Yermek Shinarbayev)
- The Confined (Mrinal Sen)
- Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce)
- El detective y la muerte (Gonzalo Suárez)
- Fado majeur et mineur (Raoul Ruiz)
- Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid (Ji-yeong Jeong)
- La Partie d'échecs (Yves Hanchar)
- Mon amie Max (Michel Brault)
- Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (Ping He)
- Scenes from the New World (Gordon Eriksen, Heather Johnston)
- Second Best (Chris Menges)
- Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle)
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott)
- The Beans of Egypt, Maine (Jennifer Warren)
- The Shadow (Russell Mulcahy)
- Todo es mentira (Álvaro Fernández Armero)
- Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen (Andreas Gruber)
- Wiederkehr (Silvana Abbrescia-Rath)