Sitges Film Festival
Location | Sitges, Catalonia (Spain) |
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Founded | 1967 |
Language | Spanish |
The Sitges Film Festival (Catalan: Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya) is a Spanish film festival and one of the world's foremost international festivals specializing in fantasy and horror films. Established in 1968, the festival takes place every year, usually in early October, in the coastal town of Sitges, 34 kilometers West-South-West of the city of Barcelona, and is easily reachable by train.
Venues[]
The main venue of the Sitges Film Festival is the Auditori (Auditorium), located in the Hotel Melià Sitges (in the Port d'Aiguadolç area), which has a capacity of 1,384 seats. As of 2020, other venues are: Cine El Retiro (El Retiro Cinema), Cine Prado (Prado Cinema), Brigadoon - L'escorxador (a beautiful modernista building), Tramuntana (another cinema hall in Hotel Melià), Platja de Sant Sebastià (Sant Sebastià Beach), the emblematic Palau de Maricel (villa), Hort de Can Falç (Can Falç Garden) and Edifici Miramar (Miramar Building).[1]
Directors[]
The director of the festival since 2001 is Àngel Sala Corbí, who succeeded Roc Villas i Ventura (1999-2000), and Àlex Gorina i Macià (1994-1998) before him, etc.[2][3]
Awards[]
Since 1971 the festival has given awards to the best films, actors, and filmmakers.[4]
The Gorilla (Official Fantastic Section) are the festival's main awards. Award-winners are selected by an international jury. These awards are:[5][6]
- Best Feature-Length Film
- Best Director
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Screenplay
- Best Special Effects
- Best Cinematography
- Best Original Score
- Special Jury Prize
- Grand Audience Award for Best Motion Picture (Official Fantastic Selection)
- Best Fantastic Genre Short Film
The festival also presents:
- The José Luis Guarner Critics’ Award
- Citizen Kane Award for the Best Debut Feature (Best New Director)
- The Noves Visions (New Visions) Award
- The Carnet Jove Jury Award (film selected by a youth jury)
- The Grand Honorary Award (for Lifetime Achievement in Cinema)
- The Anima't Awards for Best Animated Short and Feature Film
- The Màquina del Temps (Time Machine) Award, given to individuals from the fantasy world film genre
- The Midnight X-Treme Award, for the best motion picture from the special screenings (selected by the Carnet Jove Jury)
and a few others...
Winners[]
Year | Best Film | Best Director | Best Actor | Best Actress |
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1971[7] | Janusz Majewski (Lokis) and Michael Skaife (Necrophagus) | Vincent Price (The Abominable Dr. Phibes) | Youn Yuh-jung (Woman of Fire) | |
1972[8] | The Cremator | Robert Mulligan (The Other) | Rudolf Hrusinsky (The Cremator) | Geraldine Chaplin (Zero Population Growth) |
1973[9] | Juan Luis Buñuel (Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse) | Eugene Levy (Cannibal Girls) | Andrea Martin (Cannibal Girls) | |
1974[10] | Robert Fuest (Dr. Phibes Rises Again) | Mark Burns (House of the Living Dead) | Cristina Galbó (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie) | |
1975[11] | David Cronenberg (Shivers) | Paul Naschy (La Maldicion de la Bestia) | Lana Turner (Persecution) | |
1976[12] | Dario Argento (Profondo Rosso) | Peter Cushing (The Ghoul) | Brenda Vaccaro (Death Weekend) | |
1977[13] | Dan Curtis (Burnt Offerings) | Burgess Meredith (Burnt Offerings) | Karen Black (Burnt Offerings) | |
1978[14] | Long Weekend | Richard Franklin (Patrick) | John Hargreaves (Long Weekend) | Camille Keaton (Day of the Woman) |
1979[15] | Juraj Herz (Panna a netvor) | Gerhard Olschewski (Der Mörder) | Lisa Pelikan (Jennifer) | |
1980[16] | Veljko Bulajic (The Man to Destroy) | Nicholas Worth (Don't Answer the Phone) | Cyd Hayman (The Godsend) | |
1981[17] | Walerian Borowczyk (Docteur Jekyll et les femmes) | Mircea Bogdan (Povestea dragostei) | Linda Haynes (Human Experiments) | |
1982[18] | Tony Williams (Next of Kin) | Richard Chamberlain (The Last Wave) | Annie McEnroe (Warlords of the 21st Century) | |
1983[19] | Le Dernier Combat | Luc Besson (Le Dernier Combat) | Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Carradine | Elizabeth Ward (Alone in the Dark) |
1984[20] | The Company of Wolves | Carl Schenkel (Abwärts) | Joe Morton (The Brother from Another Planet) | Amy Madigan (Streets of Fire) |
1985[21] | Re-Animator | Shuji Terayama (Farewell to the Ark) | John Walcutt (Return) | Lori Cardille (Day of the Dead) |
1986[22] | Blue Velvet | Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze (The Legend of the Suram Fortress) | Juanjo Puigcorbé (Més enllà de la passió) | Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2) |
1987[23] | A Hungarian Fairy Tale | Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop) | Michael Nouri (The Hidden) | Jill Schoelen (The Stepfather) |
1988[24] | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | George A. Romero (Monkey Shines) | Grigory Gladiy (Otstupnik) | Kate McNeil (Monkey Shines) |
1989[25] | Heart of Midnight | Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) | Michael Gambon (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover), Nicolas Cage (Vampire's Kiss) | Rosanna Arquette (Black Rainbow) |
1990[26] | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | ex-aequo: Sam Raimi (Darkman),
John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) |
Jeff Goldblum (Mister Frost) | Lindsay Duncan (The Reflecting Skin) |
1991[27] | Europa | Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro (Delicatessen) | Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen) | Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) |
1992[28] | C'est arrivé près de chez vous | Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) | Benoît Poelvoorde (C’est arrivé près de chez vous) | Joey Wang (A Chinese Ghost Story III) |
1993[29] | Orlando | Dave Borthwick (The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb) | Federico Luppi (Cronos) | Jennifer Ward-Lealand (Desperate Remedies) |
1994[30] | 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls | Scott McGehee, David Siegel (Suture) | Santiago Segura (Justino) | Jane Horrocks (Deadly Advice) |
1995[31] | Citizen X | Chris Gerolmo (Citizen X), Michael Almereyda (Nadja (film)) | Stephen Rea (Citizen X) | Bridget Fonda (Rough Magic) |
1996[32] | The Pillow Book | Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh) | James Woods (Killer: A Journal of Murder) | Melinda Clarke (Killer Tongue) |
1997[33] | Gattaca | (The Ugly) | Sam Rockwell (Lawn Dogs) | Reese Witherspoon (Freeway) |
1998[34] | Cube | (Animals with the Tollkeeper) | Jared Harris (Trance) | (Sitcom) |
1999[35] | Ringu | Ben Hopkins (Simon Magus) | Noah Taylor (Simon Magus) | Emma Vilarasau (The Nameless) |
2000[36] | In the Light of the Moon | Geoffrey Wright (Cherry Falls) | Steve Railsback (In the Light of the Moon) | |
2001[37] | Vidocq | Brad Anderson (Session 9) | Eduard Fernández (Fausto 5.0) | Yūki Amami (Inugami) |
2002[38] | Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary | David Cronenberg (Spider) | Jeremy Northam (Cypher) | Angela Bettis (May) |
2003[39] | Zatōichi | Alexandre Aja (High Tension) | Robert Downey Jr. (The Singing Detective) | Cécile de France (High Tension) |
2004[40] | Oldboy | Johnnie To (Breaking News) | Christian Bale (The Machinist) | Mónica López (El Habitante Incierto) |
2005[41] | Hard Candy | Johnnie To (Election) | Lee Kang-sheng (The Wayward Cloud) | Lee Young-ae (Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) |
2006[42] | Requiem | Martin Weisz (Grimm Love) | Thomas Kretschmann, Thomas Huber (Grimm Love) | Sandra Hüller (Requiem) |
2007[43] | The Fall | Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza (REC) | Sam Rockwell for (Joshua) | Manuela Velasco (REC) |
2008[44] | Surveillance | Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird) | Brian Cox (Red) | Semra Turan (Fighter) |
2009[45] | Moon | Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay) | Sam Rockwell (Moon) | Ex-aequo: Elena Anaya (Hierro)
and Kim Ok-vin for (Thirst) |
2010[46] | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale) | Patrick Fabian (The Last Exorcism) | Josie Ho (Dream Home) |
2011[47] | Red State | Julia Leigh (Sleeping Beauty) | Michael Parks (Red State) | Brit Marling (Another Earth) |
2012[48] | Holy Motors | Léos Carax (Holy Motors) | Vincent D'Onofrio (Chained) | Alice Lowe (Sightseers) |
2013[49] | Borgman | Navot Papushado, Aharon Keshales (Big Bad Wolves) | Andy Lau (Blind Detective) | Juno Temple (Magic Magic) |
2014[50] | I Origins | (Cub) | Nathan Phillips (These Final Hours), Kōji Yakusho (The World of Kanako) | Essie Davis (The Babadook), Julianne Moore (Maps to the Stars) |
2015[51] | The Invitation | S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) | Joel Edgerton (The Gift) | (The Brand New Testament) |
2016[52] | Swiss Army Man | Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan) | Daniel Radcliffe (Swiss Army Man) | Sennia Nanua (The Girl with All the Gifts) |
2017[53] | Jupiter’s Moon | (Revenge) | Rafe Spall (The Ritual) | (Marlina The Murderer In Four Acts) |
2018[54] | Climax | Panos Cosmatos (Mandy) | (Pig) | Andrea Riseborough (Nancy) |
2019[55] | The Platform | Kleber Mendonça Filho & (Bacurau) | Miles Robbins (Daniel Isn't Real) | Imogen Poots (Vivarium) |
2020[56] | Possessor | Brandon Cronenberg (Possessor) | & (Mandibules) | Suliane Brahim (The Swarm) |
See also[]
- European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation
Other genre film festivals[]
- Fantasporto
- Fantasia International Film Festival
- Fantastic Fest
- Screamfest Horror Film Festival
- Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film
- Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
- Dead by Dawn
- Fantafestival
- International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival
- New York City Horror Film Festival
- Toronto After Dark Film Festival
- TromaDance
- Lusca Fantastic Film Fest
References[]
- ^ "Venues", official Sitges Film Festival website. [Consulted 27-05-2020].
- ^ "Dimiteixen els responsables de Sitges Teatre Internacional", Teatralnet, 13 Feb 2001, (in Catalan). [Consulted 27-05-2020].
- ^ "Team", Sitges Film Festival official website. [Consulted 27-05-2020].
- ^ "Festival Awards". sitgesfilmfestival.com. Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya.
- ^ Festival Awards, official website of the Sitges Film Festival. [Consulted 27-05-2020].
- ^ Festival Award-winners for the 52nd Edition (2019), official website of the Sitges Film Festival. [Consulted 27-05-2020].
- ^ Sitges 1971 Awards
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- ^ "Sitges 2017 Awards".
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External links[]
- Sitges Film Festival at IMDb
- Film festivals in Catalonia
- Fantasy and horror film festivals
- 1967 establishments in Spain
- 1976 establishments in Catalonia
- Recurring events established in 1967
- Annual events in Catalonia
- Sitges
- Film festivals established in 1967
- Autumn events in Spain