Awards - San Sebastián International Film Festival - 2015-2024
National Awards
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
- Academy Awards
- Independent Spirit Awards
- 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
- Cannes Film Festival
- Venice Film Festival
- Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Toronto 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
- 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
2024 - 72nd San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Special Jury Prize
The Last Showgirl
(The ensemble cast)Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance
Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
- Bound in Heaven (Xin Huo)
- Emmanuelle (Audrey Diwan)
- Conclave (Edward Berger)
- Glimmers (Pilar Palomero)
- Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
- Last Breath (Costa-Gavras)
- In Her Place (Maite Alberdi)
- On Falling (Laura Carreira)
- Serpent's Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- I'm Nevenka (Icíar Bollaín)
- The End (Joshua Oppenheimer)
- The Last Showgirl (Gia Coppola)
- The Man Who Loved UFOs (Diego Lerman)
- The Wailing (Pedro Martín Calero)
- When Fall Is Coming (François Ozon)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance
Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
Special Jury Prize
- The Last Showgirl (The ensemble cast)
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
New Directors' Section Award
New Director's Section – Special Mention
Horizons Award
- Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega)
- When Clouds Hide the Shadow (José Luis Torres Leiva)
- Cidade; Campo (Juliana Rojas)
- Maybe It's True What They Say About Us (Camilo Becerra, Sofía Paloma Gómez)
- Most People Die on Sundays (Iair Said)
- Beloved Tropic (Ana Endara)
- Ramón y Ramón (Salvador del Solar)
- Reas (Lola Arias)
- Simon of the Mountain (Federico Luis)
- Skin in Spring (Yennifer Uribe Alzate)
- Sleep with Your Eyes Open (Nele Wohlatz)
- Sujo (Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez)
- Zafari (Mariana Rondón)
- The Freshly Cut Grass (Celina Murga)
Irizar Award for Best Basque Film
Irizar Award - Special Mention for Basque Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best European Film
Nest Award
RTVE-Another Look Award
RTVE-Another Look Award Special Mention
Spanish Cooperation Award
Culinary Zinema Best Film Award
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Special Mention
Eusko Label First Prize
Eusko Label Second Prize
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
2023 - 71th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance
Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
Golden Shell for Best Film
- The Rye Horn (Jaione Camborda)
- All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson)
- A Journey in Spring (Tzu-Hui Peng, Pingwen Wang)
- Sultana's Dream (Isabel Herguera)
- Great Absence (Kei Chikaura)
- Fingernails (Christos Nikou)
- Kalak (Isabella Eklöf)
- The Successor (Xavier Legrand)
- The Practice (Martín Rejtman)
- MMXX (Cristi Puiu)
- Men of Divorce (Noah Pritzker)
- Puan (María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat)
- Un amor (Isabel Coixet)
- The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green)
- A Silence (Joachim Lafosse)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance
Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
Special Jury Prize
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
New Directors' Section Award
- Bahadur the Brave (Diwa Shah)
- Achilles (Farhad Delaram)
- The Blue Star (Javier Macipe)
- The Other Son (Juan Sebastián Quebrada)
- Bauryna salu (Askhat Kuchencherekov)
- Mother, Couch (Niclas Larsson)
- Carefree Days (Liang Ming)
- Last Shadow at First Light (Nicole Midori Woodford)
Horizons Award
- The Castle (Martín Benchimol)
- Alemania (María Zanetti)
- Blondi (Dolores Fonzi)
- Clara Gets Lost in the Woods (Camila Fabbri)
- A Strange Path (Guto Parente)
- Heroic (David Zonana)
- The Settlers (Felipe Gálvez Haberle)
- The Echo (Tatiana Huezo)
- Toll (Carolina Markowicz)
- Electrophilia (Lucía Puenzo)
- Tótem (Lila Avilés)
Irizar Award for Best Basque Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best European Film
Best Latin American Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
Made in Spanish Award
Spanish Cooperation Award
FIPRESCI Award
Feroz Zinemaldia Award
Award to the Best Basque Screenplay
Sebastiane Award
- 20,000 Species of Bees (Estibaliz Urresola)
- The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
- Sultana's Dream (Isabel Herguera)
- The Castle (Martín Benchimol)
- Gabi, Between Ages 8 and 13 (Engeli Broberg)
- Monster (Hirokazu Kore'eda)
- In the Company of Women (Silvia Munt)
- Gamma Rays (Henry Bernadet)
- Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado)
- Toll (Carolina Markowicz)
- Afire (Christian Petzold)
Culinary Zinema Best Film Award
Dunia Ayaso Award
Euskal Gidoigileen Elkartea Award
RTVE-Otra Mirada Award
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
- The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
- Nights Gone By (Alberto Martín Menacho)
- Grace (Ilya Povolotsky)
- Even Though It's Night (Guillermo García López)
- Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An)
- Camping du lac (Éléonore Saintagnan)
- Counters (Irati Gorostidi)
- The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)
- Short Story (Lang Wu)
- The Trial (Ulises de la Orden)
- Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: “Phony Wars” (Jean-Luc Godard)
- We Are the Hollow Men (Rati Oneli)
- Here (Bas Devos)
- The Island (Damien Manivel)
- La Palisiada (Philip Sotnychenko)
- Mamántula (Ion De Sosa)
- Mixtape La Pampa (Andrés Di Tella)
- Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado)
- Oyu (Atsushi Hirai)
- Single Light (Shaylee Atary)
- Remembering Every Night (Yui Kiyohara)
- Through the Night (Delphine Girard)
- Absence (Lang Wu)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
2022 - 70th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance
Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
Golden Shell for Best Film
- The Kings of the World (Laura Mora)
- The Substitute (Diego Lerman)
- Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures (Marco Martins)
- Wild Flowers (Jaime Rosales)
- The Bohemian (Petr Václav)
- A Hundred Flowers (川村元気)
- Tax Me If You Can (Yannick Kergoat)
- A Woman (Chao Wang)
- La maternal (Pilar Palomero)
- The Rite of Spring (Fernando Franco)
- Pornomelancolía (Manuel Abramovich)
- Winter Boy (Christophe Honoré)
- Forever (Frelle Petersen)
- Runner (Marian Mathias)
- Cork (Mikel Gurrea)
- Sparta (Ulrich Seidl)
- The Wonder (Sebastián Lelio)
- Walk Up (Sang-soo Hong)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance
Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
Special Jury Prize
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
New Director's Section – Special Mention
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
- Jeanne Aslan, Paul Saintillan (Spare Keys)
- Ion Bors (Carbon)
- Carmen Jaquier (Thunder)
- Katrine Brocks (The Great Silence)
- Dinara Drukarova (Woman at Sea)
- Jeong Ji-hye (Jeong-sun)
- Parth Saurabh (On Either Sides of the Pond)
- Rocío Mesa (Tobacco Barns)
Horizons Award
- I Have Electrical Dreams (Valentina Maurel)
- 1976 (Manuela Martelli)
- Charcoal (Carolina Markowicz)
- Dos estaciones (Juan Pablo González)
- The Pack (Andrés Ramírez Pulido)
- The Padilla Affair (Pavel Giroud)
- My Imaginary Country (Patricio Guzmán)
- Octopus Skin (Ana Cristina Barragán)
- Sublime (Mariano Biasin)
- Noise (Natalia Beristáin)
- A Male (Fabian Hernández)
Irizar Award for Best Basque Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best European Film
Best Latin American Film
- Sublime (Mariano Biasin)
- Almost in Love (Leonardo Brzezicki)
- Petit mal (Ruth Caudeli)
- Mars One (Gabriel Martins)
- A Male (Fabian Hernández)
EZAE Youth Jury Award
Spanish Cooperation Award
Zinemira Award
Greenpeace - Lurra Award
FIPRESCI Award
FIPRESCI Film of the Year
- Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
- Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
- The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
- The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
Feroz Zinemaldia Award
SIGNIS Award
SIGNIS Award Special Mention
Sebastiane Award
- Something You Said Last Night (Luis De Filippis)
- Charcoal (Carolina Markowicz)
- Winter Boy (Christophe Honoré)
- Dos estaciones (Juan Pablo González)
- My Way Out (Izaskun Arandia)
- My Emptiness and I (Adrian Silvestre)
- Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
- Peter von Kant (François Ozon)
- Rainbow (Paco León)
- Pornomelancolía (Manuel Abramovich)
- Sublime (Mariano Biasin)
- A Male (Fabian Hernández)
Dunia Ayaso Award
Dunia Ayaso Award - Special Mention
Euskal Gidoigileen Elkartea Award
RTVE-Otra Mirada Award
- The Yellow Ceiling (Isabel Coixet)
- Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)
- Woman at Sea (Dinara Drukarova)
- Thunder (Carmen Jaquier)
- Daughter of Rage (Laura Baumeister de Montis)
- La maternal (Pilar Palomero)
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
- Nest (Hlynur Pálmason)
- Godland (Hlynur Pálmason)
- Friends on a Country Road (Santiago Loza)
- A Human Position (Anders Emblem)
- Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) (Peter Strickland)
- Chords (Estibaliz Urresola)
- Heartbeat (Chang-dong Lee)
- The Water (Elena López Riera)
- The Third Notebook (Lur Olaizola)
- The Mountain (Thomas Salvador)
- Robe of Gems (Natalia López)
- The Melting Creatures (Diego Céspedes)
- Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann)
- Meet Me in the Bathroom (Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern)
- Piaffe (Ann Oren)
- Nowhere to Go But Everywhere (Erik Shirai, Masako Tsumura)
- A Short Story (Gan Bi)
- Piggy (Carlota Pereda)
- Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
- Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
2021 - 69th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
Who's Stopping Us
(ensemble)Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Blue Moon (Alina Grigore)
- Arthur Rambo (Laurent Cantet)
- Camila Comes Out Tonight (Inés María Barrionuevo)
- Benediction (Terence Davies)
- Earwig (Lucile Hadžihalilović)
- As In Heaven (Tea Lindeburg)
- The Good Boss (Fernando León de Aranoa)
- Undercover (Thierry de Peretti)
- The Grandmother (Paco Plaza)
- Maixabel (Icíar Bollaín)
- Fever Dream (Claudia Llosa)
- One Second (Yimou Zhang)
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter)
- Who's Stopping Us (Jonás Trueba)
- Fire on the Plain (Ji Zhang)
- I Want to Talk About Duras (Claire Simon)
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance
Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
- Who's Stopping Us (ensemble)
Special Jury Prize
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
- Ulises Porra, Silvina Schnicer (Carajita)
- Lena Lanskih (Unwanted)
- Hong Seong-eun (Aloners)
- Selman Nacar (Between Two Dawns)
- Darko Sinko (Inventory)
- Mara Pescio (That Weekend)
- Javier Marco (Josephine)
- Juan Sebastian Mesa (The Rust)
- Philippe Grégoire (The Noise of Engines)
- Agustín Banchero (Hilda’s Short Summer)
- Emanuel Pârvu (Mikado)
- Fran Kranz (Mass)
- Liang Sun (Lost in Summer)
Horizons Award
- Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo)
- Amparo (Simón Mesa Soto)
- Aurora (Paz Fabrega)
- Azor (Andreas Fontana)
- The Employer and the Employee (Manolo Nieto)
- Jesús López (Maximiliano Schonfeld)
- The Box (Lorenzo Vigas)
- Madalena (Madiano Marcheti)
- Dusk Stone (Iván Fund)
- A Cop Movie (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
Irizar Award for Best Basque Film
- Maixabel (Icíar Bollaín)
- Imprints (Maru Solores)
- Story of a Steering Wheel (Iñaki Alforja, Iban Toledo)
- The Radio Amateur (Iker Elorrieta)
- The Moaning (Xabier Erkizia)
- Pandemic Tour Belako (Hernán Zin)
- We Are Nothing (Javier Corcuera)
Irizar Award - Special Mention for Basque Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best European Film
Best Latin American Film
- Medusa (Anita Rocha da Silveira)
- The First Death of Joana (Cristiane Oliveira)
- Dance of the 41 (David Pablos Sánchez)
- Madalena (Madiano Marcheti)
- Mixteca Knot (Ángeles Cruz)
EZAE Youth Jury Award
Nest Award
Nest Award - Special Mention
Films in Progress Award
Spanish Cooperation Award
FIPRESCI Award
FIPRESCI Film of the Year
- Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
- What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
- Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
- Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
- Quo vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić)
Feroz Zinemaldia Award
SIGNIS Award
Sebastiane Award
- The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
- Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
- Camila Comes Out Tonight (Inés María Barrionuevo)
- Benediction (Terence Davies)
- That Weekend (Mara Pescio)
- Official Competition (Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat)
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
- The Grandmother (Paco Plaza)
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter)
- Titane (Julia Ducournau)
- Madalena (Madiano Marcheti)
- The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
- I Want to Talk About Duras (Claire Simon)
- Sediments (Adrian Silvestre)
Dunia Ayaso Award
- Mighty Flash (Ainhoa Rodríguez)
- Josephine (Javier Marco)
- The Laws of the Border (Daniel Monzón)
- Maixabel (Icíar Bollaín)
RTVE-Otra Mirada Award
- Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo)
- Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
- 107 Mothers (Peter Kerekes)
- Camila Comes Out Tonight (Inés María Barrionuevo)
- Blue Moon (Alina Grigore)
- As In Heaven (Tea Lindeburg)
- Unwanted (Lena Lanskih)
- Maixabel (Icíar Bollaín)
- Titane (Julia Ducournau)
- Unclenching the Fists (Кира Коваленко)
- Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carrère)
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
- Vortex (Gaspar Noé)
- 107 Mothers (Peter Kerekes)
- They Carry Death (Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón)
- The Great Movement (Kiro Russo)
- Heltzear (Mikel Gurrea)
- Haruhara San's Recorder (Kyoshi Sugita)
- The Crossing (Florence Miailhe)
- The Cormorant (Lubna Playoust)
- Mi iubita, mon amour (Noémie Merlant)
- My Friends and the Fire (Laura Rius Aran)
- My Uncle Tudor (Olga Lucovnicova)
- Petrov's Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov)
- Unclenching the Fists (Кира Коваленко)
- The Souvenir: Part II (Joanna Hogg)
- Returning to Reims (Jean-Gabriel Périot)
- Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
- Playground (Laura Wandel)
- Day Is Done (Dalei Zhang)
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
2020 - 68th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
- Coven of Sisters (Pablo Agüero)
- True Mothers (Naomi Kawase)
- Courtroom 3H (Antonio Méndez Esparza)
- Crock of Gold (Julien Temple)
- Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
- Summer of 85 (François Ozon)
- In the Dusk (Sharunas Bartas)
- Any Crybabies Around? (Takuma Satô)
- We Will Never Die (Eduardo Crespo)
- Simple Passion (Danielle Arbid)
- Supernova (Harry Macqueen)
- Wuhai (Ziyang Zhou)
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' Section Award
- Last Days of Spring (Isabel Lamberti)
- Along the Sea (Akio Fujimoto)
- Ane Is Missing (David Pérez Sañudo)
- Chupacabra (Grigory Kolomytsev)
- Death Knell (Imanol Rayo)
- Spagat (Christian Johannes Koch)
- Gull (Kim Mi-jo)
- I Never Cry (Piotr Domalewski)
- Limbo (Ben Sharrock)
- Memory House (João Paulo Miranda Maria)
- Slow Singing (Xingyi Dong)
- Spring Blossom (Suzanne Lindon)
New Director's Section – Special Mention
Horizons Award
Horizons Award – Special Mention
Irizar Award for Best Basque Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best European Film
International Film Students Meeting ORONA AWARD
RTVE-Another Look Award
RTVE-Another Look Award Special Mention
Spanish Cooperation Award
Zinemira Award
FIPRESCI Award
SIGNIS Award
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Special Mention
Prize San Sebastián
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
2019 - 67th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Pacified (Paxton Winters)
- Blackbird (Roger Michell)
- A Dark, Dark Man (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)
- The Audition (Ina Weisse)
- And the Birds Rained Down (Louise Archambault)
- A Thief's Daughter (Belén Funes)
- The Endless Trench (Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, José María Goenaga)
- Lhamo and Skalbe (Sonthar Gyal)
- Workforce (David Zonana)
- While at War (Alejandro Amenábar)
- Patrick (Gonçalo Waddington)
- Proxima (Alice Winocour)
- Rocks (Sarah Gavron)
- Just Great (Guillaume Nicloux)
- The Other Lamb (Malgorzata Szumowska)
- Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes (José Luis Torres Leiva)
- Heroic Losers (Sebastián Borensztein)
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
Horizons Award
Horizons Award – Special Mention
Irizar Award for Best Basque Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best European Film
Special Mention Students film
RTVE-Another Look Award
Spanish Cooperation Award
Zinemira Award
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Special Mention
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
2018 - 66th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Between Two Waters (Isaki Lacuesta)
- An Unexpected Love (Juan Vera)
- Alpha: The Right to Kill (Brillante Mendoza)
- Angelo (Markus Schleinzer)
- Baby (Jie Liu)
- Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen)
- Blindsone (Tuva Novotny)
- The Innocent (Simon Jaquemet)
- The Candidate (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
- Between Two Waters (Isaki Lacuesta)
- High Life (Claire Denis)
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (Jee-woon Kim)
- In Fabric (Peter Strickland)
- A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel)
- The Black Book (Valeria Sarmiento)
- Who Will Sing to You (Carlos Vermut)
- Rojo (Benjamín Naishtat)
- Vision (Naomi Kawase)
- Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story (Icíar Bollaín)
- Giants (Jorge Dorado, Enrique Urbizu)
- Dantza (Telmo Esnal)
- Some Time After (José Luis Cuerda)
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
Horizons Award
- A Family Submerged (María Alché)
- The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi)
- Buy Me a Gun (Julio Hernández Cordón)
- The Snatch Thief (Agustín Toscano)
- Enigma (Ignacio Juricic)
- Rust (Aly Muritiba)
- Figures (Eugenio Canevari)
- A Twelve-Year Night (Álvaro Brechner)
- Los Silencios (Beatriz Seigner)
- Marilyn (Martín Rodríguez Redondo)
- Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)
- Florianópolis Dream (Ana Katz)
Horizons Award – Special Mention
Irizar Award for Best Basque Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best European Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
International Film Students Meeting Awards FIRST PRIZE
International Film Students Meeting ORONA AWARD
Films in Progress Award
RTVE-Another Look Award
Spanish Cooperation Award
Zinemira Award
Greenpeace - Lurra Award
Fedeora Award
FIPRESCI Award
Feroz Zinemaldia Award
SIGNIS Award
SIGNIS Award Special Mention
Award to the Best Basque Screenplay
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
Sebastiane Award
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
2017 - 65th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Golden Shell for Best Film
- The Disaster Artist (James Franco)
- Submergence (Wim Wenders)
- The Wife (Björn Runge)
- Alanis (Anahi Berneri)
- Beyond Words (Urszula Antoniak)
- The Captain (Robert Schwentke)
- The Motive (Manuel Martín Cuenca)
- Giant (Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño)
- Memoir of War (Emmanuel Finkiel)
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Nobuhiro Suwa)
- C'est la vie! (Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano)
- Mademoiselle Paradis (Barbara Albert)
- Life and Nothing More (Antonio Méndez Esparza)
- Love Me Not (Alexandros Avranas)
- So Help Me God (Yves Hinant, Jean Libon)
- Pororoca (Constantin Popescu)
- Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (Ivana Mladenović)
- Sollers Point (Matt Porterfield)
- A Sort of Family (Diego Lerman)
- The Plague (Alberto Rodríguez)
- The Secret of Marrowbone (Sergio G. Sánchez)
- See You Up There (Albert Dupontel)
- Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (Akiyuki Simbo, Nobuyuki Takeuchi)
- Wonders of the Sea 3D (Jean-Michel Cousteau, Jean-Jacques Mantello)
- Dying (Fernando Franco)
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
Silver Shell Special Mention
New Directors Award (Kutxabank)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
Horizons Award
- Los Perros (Marcela Said)
- A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio)
- To the Desert (Ulises Rosell)
- Araby (João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa)
- Cocote (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias)
- Rey´s Education (Santiago Esteves)
- The Family (Gustavo Rondón Córdova)
- The Desert Bride (Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato)
- April's Daughter (Michel Franco)
- The Waves (Adrián Biniez)
- Medea (Alexandra Latishev Salazar)
- Hunting Season (Natalia Garagiola)
Jaeger-Lecoutre Latin Cinema Award
Irizar Award for Best Basque Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best European Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
International Film Students Meeting Awards FIRST PRIZE
International Film Students Meeting ORONA AWARD
Special Mention Students film
RTVE-Another Look Award
Spanish Cooperation Award
Zinemira Award
Greenpeace - Lurra Award
FIPRESCI Award
Feroz Zinemaldia Award
SIGNIS Award
SIGNIS Award Special Mention
Special Award 60 Years of Signis Jury in San Seabastian
Award to the Best Basque Screenplay
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
Sebastiane Award
Sebastiane Award Special Mention
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
2016 - 64th San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Special Jury Prize
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Golden Shell for Best Film
- I Am Not Madame Bovary (Xiaogang Feng)
- American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor)
- As You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
- Bigas x Bigas (Santiago Garrido Rua, Bigas Luna)
- Yourself and Yours (Sang-soo Hong)
- The Oath (Baltasar Kormákur)
- Smoke & Mirrors (Alberto Rodríguez)
- The Winter (Emiliano Torres)
- Rage (Sang-il Lee)
- Jesús (Fernando Guzzoni)
- The Giant (Johannes Nyholm)
- Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai)
- 150 Milligrams (Emmanuelle Bercot)
- The Reconquest (Jonás Trueba)
- Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd)
- Men Got Guts (Diego Galán)
- Paris Is Happening (Bertrand Bonello)
- Orphan (Arnaud des Pallières)
- Playground (Bartosz M. Kowalski)
- May God Save Us (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
- Living and Other Fictions (Jo Sol)
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
Horizons Award
- Rara (Pepa San Martín)
- Alba (Ana Cristina Barragán)
- Much Ado About Nothing (Alejandro Fernández Almendras)
- El amparo (Rober Calzadilla)
- The Blind Christ (Christopher Murray)
- The Tenth Man (Daniel Burman)
- The Cambridge Squatter (Eliane Caffé)
- The Idea of a Lake (Milagros Mumenthaler)
- The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis (Francisco Márquez, Andrea Testa)
- The Untamed (Amat Escalante)
- Santa & Andres (Carlos Lechuga)
- Dark Skull (Kiro Russo)
- X500 (Juan Andrés Arango Garcia)
Horizons Award – Special Mention
Jaeger-Lecoutre Latin Cinema Award
Irizar Award for Best Basque Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best European Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
International Film Students Meeting Awards FIRST PRIZE
International Film Students Meeting ORONA AWARD
International Film Students Meeting ORONA AWARD - Special Mention
Special Mention Students film
Tokyo Gohan Film Festival Award
Films in Progress Award
Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum. EGEDA Best Project Award
Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum. EGEDA Best Project Award Special Mention
RTVE-Another Look Award
Spanish Cooperation Award
Spanish Cooperation Award - Special Mention
Zinemira Award
Greenpeace - Lurra Award
FIPRESCI Award
Feroz Zinemaldia Award
SIGNIS Award
SIGNIS Award Special Mention
Award to the Best Basque Screenplay
Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award
Sebastiane Award
Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award
2015 - 63rd San Sebastian IFF
Golden Shell for Best Film
Special Jury Prize
Silver Shell for Best Director
Silver Shell for Best Actor
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Golden Shell for Best Film
- Sparrows (Rúnar Rúnarsson)
- Regression (Alejandro Amenábar)
- London Road (Rufus Norris)
- 21 Nights with Pattie (Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu)
- Amama - When A Tree Falls (Asier Altuna)
- Back to the North (Hao Lui)
- The Boy and the Beast (Mamoru Hosoda)
- The Apostate (Federico Veiroj)
- The King of Havana (Agustí Villaronga)
- Eva Doesn't Sleep (Pablo Agüero)
- Evolution (Lucile Hadžihalilović)
- Freeheld (Peter Sollett)
- High-Rise (Ben Wheatley)
- The White Knights (Joachim Lafosse)
- The Demons (Philippe Lesage)
- Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
- Truman (Cesc Gay)
- A Perfect Day to Fly (Marc Recha)
- My Great Night (Álex de la Iglesia)
- Lejos del mar (Imanol Uribe)
- No estamos solos (Pere Joan Ventura)
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)
New Directors Award (Kutxabank) - Special Mention
Horizons Award
- Paulina (Santiago Mitre)
- The Club (Pablo Larraín)
- 600 Miles (Gabriel Ripstein)
- Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
- The Pearl Button (Patricio Guzmán)
- Chronic (Michel Franco)
- From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas)
- The Chosen Ones (David Pablos Sánchez)
- Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante)
- Magallanes (Salvador del Solar)
- The Project of the Century (Carlos Quintela)
- Para Minha Amada Morta (Aly Muritiba)
- I Promise You Anarchy (Julio Hernández Cordón)
- Land and Shade (César Augusto Acevedo)
Horizons Award – Special Mention
- From Afar (Luis Silva) Zvláštní uznání herci Luis Silva.
- I Promise You Anarchy (Julio Hernández Cordón)
Irizar Award for Best Basque Film
Irizar Award - Special Mention for Basque Film
- Un otoño sin Berlín (Irene Escolar) Zvláštní uznání herečce Irene Escolar.
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best Film
City of Donostia Audience Award for Best European Film
EZAE Youth Jury Award
International Film Students Meeting Awards FIRST PRIZE
International Film Students Meeting SECOND PRIZE
International Film Students Meeting THIRD PRIZE
International Film Students Meeting ORONA AWARD
International Film Students Meeting TORINO AWARD
Tokyo Gohan Film Festival Award
Films in Progress Award
Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum. EGEDA Best Project Award
- The Omission (Sebastián Schjaer) Argentina, Německo, Francie.
Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum. EGEDA Best Project Award Special Mention
- Španělsko, Uruguay.
- A Twelve-Year Night (Álvaro Brechner)
RTVE-Another Look Award
Spanish Cooperation Award
Greenpeace - Lurra Award
- One Day I Saw 10.000 Elephants (Alex Guimerà, Juan Pajares)
- Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez)