List of Greek award-winning films in International Film Festivals
Many Greek films have represented the Greek cinema in International Film Festivals. Greek films or (Greek co-productive films) have won accolades in the most famous International Film Festival such as Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Cannes Festival, Venice Festival, Berlin Festival, Cyprus International Film Festival and other. Below are considered the awarded Greek films in the most notable international film festival.
Academy Awards[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never on Sunday | 1960 | 33rd Academy Awards | Best Original Song | Manos Hatzidakis | Won |
Zorba The Greek | 1964 | 37th Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Lila Kedrova | Won |
Best Production Design | Vassilis Photopoulos | Won | |||
Best Cinematography | Walter Lassally | Won |
Golden Globes[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stella[1] | 1955 | 13th Golden Globe Awards | Best Foreign Language Film | Michael Cacoyannis | Won |
A Girl in Black[2] | 1956 | 14th Golden Globe Awards | Best Foreign Language Film | Michael Cacoyannis | Won |
Cannes International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never on Sunday | 1960 | 1960 Cannes Film Festival | Best Actress Award | Melina Mercouri | Won |
Voyage to Cythera | 1984 | 1984 Cannes Film Festival | Best Screenplay Award | Theo Angelopoulos | Won |
Ulysses' Gaze | 1995 | 1995 Cannes Film Festival | Grand Jury Prize | Theo Angelopoulos | Won |
Eternity and a Day | 1998 | 1998 Cannes Film Festival | Palme d'Or | Theo Angelopoulos | Won |
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Theo Angelopoulos | Won | |||
Dogtooth | 2009 | 2009 Cannes Film Festival | Prix Un Certain Regard | Yorgos Lanthimos | Won |
The Lobster | 2015 | 2015 Cannes Film Festival | Jury Prize | Yorgos Lanthimos | Won |
Berlin International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Young Aphrodites | 1963 | 13th Berlin International Film Festival | Silver Bear for Best Director | Nikos Koundouros | Won |
Rebetiko | 1984 | 34th Berlin International Film Festival | Silver Bear | Costas Ferris | Won |
Venice International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | 45th Venice International Film Festival | Silver Lion | Theo Angelopoulos | Won |
Attenberg | 2010 | 67th Venice International Film Festival | Volpi Cup | Ariane Labed | Won |
Alps | 2011 | 68th Venice International Film Festival | Golden Osella | Yorgos Lanthimos | Won |
Miss Violence[6] | 2013 | 70th Venice International Film Festival | Silver Lion | Alexandros Avranas | Won |
Volpi Cup | Themis Panou | Won |
Moscow International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Descent of the Nine | 1984 | 14th Moscow International Film Festival | Golden Prize | Won |
Shanghai International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
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Little England[7] | 2013 | 2014 Shanghai International Film Festival | Best Feature Film | Pantelis Voulgaris | Won |
Best Director | Pantelis Voulgaris | Won | |||
Best Actress | Pinelopi Tsilika | Won |
Locarno International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Idlers of the Fertile Valley | 1978 | 1978 Locarno International Film Festival | Golden Leopard | Won | |
[8] | 2002 | 2002 Locarno International Film Festival | Best Actor | Won |
European Film Awards[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | 2nd European Film Awards | Best Film | Theo Angelopoulos | Won |
The Lobster | 2015 | 28th European Film Awards | Best Screenwriter | Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou | Won |
Best Costume Designer | Sarah Blenkinsop | Won |
San Sebastian International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unfair World | 2012 | 2012 San Sebastián Film Festival | Silver Shell | Filippos Tsitos | Won |
Best Actor | Antonis Kafetzopoulos | Won |
Cairo International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vasiliki[11] | 1997 | 1998 Cairo International Film Festival | Best Actor | Won | |
The King[12] | 2002 | 2003 Cairo International Film Festival | Golden Pyramid | Nikos Grammatikos | Won |
El Greco | 2007 | 32nd Cairo International Film Festival | Best Actor | Juan Diego Botto | Won |
[13] | 2014 | 36th Cairo International Film Festival | Silver Pyramid | Won |
Mar del Plata International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vasiliki[11] | 1997 | 1998 Mar del Plata International Film Festival | Best Actor | Won |
Chicago International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
And the Wife Shall Revere Her Husband[14] | 1965 | Chicago International Film Festival | Best Director | George Tzavellas | Won |
The Hunters[15] | 1977 | Chicago International Film Festival | Golden Hugo | Theo Angelopoulos | Won |
Goya Awards[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
El Greco | 2007 | 23rd Goya Awards | Best Costume Design | Won |
Fantasporto[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Money, A Mythology of Darkness | 1999 | Jury's special award | Vassilis Mazomenos | Won | |
Vassilis Mazomenos | 2001 | Won |
Maverick Movie Awards[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lines (film) | 2017 | Best Director | Vassilis Mazomenos | Won |
South East European Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lines (film) | 2018 | Best Director | Vassilis Mazomenos | Won |
Mumbai Awards[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Black Field | 2009 | 2010 Mumbai International Film Festival | Silver Gateway Trophy | Won |
*Film won the top prize |
Cyprus International Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | 2011 Cyprus International Film Festival | Golden Aphrodite Award | Won |
*Film won the top prize |
South East European Film Festival[]
Film | Year | Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Best Director | Sotiris Tsafoulias | Won |
See also[]
- List of Greek Academy Award winners and nominees
- List of Greek submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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