Awards - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) - 2014-2024
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 - 58. MFF Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
- A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (Mark Cousins)
- Rude to Love (森ガキ侑大)
- Pierce (Nelicia Low)
- Banzo (Margarida Cardoso)
- Three Days of Fish (Peter Hoogendoorn)
- Loveable (Lilja Ingolfsdottir)
- The Hungarian Dressmaker (Iveta Grófová)
- Our Lovely Pig Slaughter (Adam Martinec)
- Panopticon (George Sikharulidze)
- Tiny Lights (Beata Parkanová)
- Celebration (Bruno Anković)
- Xoftex (Noaz Deshe)
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Special Jury Prize
Special Mention
Proxima Competition Award
- Stranger (Zhengfan Yang)
- Windless (Pavel G. Vesnakov)
- Cabo Negro (Abdellah Taïa)
- Chlorophyll (Ivana Gloria)
- The Alienated (Anja Kreis)
- Nothing in Its Place (Burak Çevik)
- Lapilli (Paula Ďurinová)
- March to May (Martin Pavol Repka)
- Second Chance (Subhadra Mahajan)
- Trans Memoria (Victoria Verseau)
- Tropicana (Omer Tobi)
- Night Has Come (Paolo Tizón)
Proxima Special Jury Prize
Proxima Competition Special Mention
The Ecumenical Jury Award
The Ecumenical Jury Special Mention
The FIPRESCI Jury Award - Main Competition
The FIPRESCI Jury Award - Proxima Competition
Europa Cinemas Label Jury Award
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to Czech Cinema
Festival President’s Award
"Právo" Audience Award
2023 - 57. MFF Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
- Blaga's Lessons (Stephan Komandarev)
- A Sensitive Person (Tomáš Klein)
- Fremont (Babak Jalali)
- The Girls Are Alright (Itsaso Arana)
- We Have Never Been Modern (Matěj Chlupáček)
- The Hypnosis (Ernst De Geer)
- Empty Nets (Behrooz Karamizade)
- Red Rooms (Pascal Plante)
- Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano (Cyril Aris)
- Citizen Saint (Tinatin Kajrishvili)
- Where the Wind Blows (Marco Righi)
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Special Jury Prize
Special Mention
Proxima Competition Award
- Birth (Ji-young Yoo)
- Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife (Alexandru Solomon)
- The Song of the Auricanturi (Camila Rodriguez Triana)
- Brutal Heat (Albert Hospodářský)
- Say God Bye (Thomas Imbach)
- Guras (Saurav Rai)
- Imago (Olga Chajdas)
- Keeping Mum (Émilie Brisavoine)
- Dark Matter (Karim Lakzadeh)
- In Camera (Naqqash Khalid)
- Embryo Larva Butterfly (Kyros Papavassiliou)
- The Lost Children (Michèle Jacob)
Proxima Special Jury Prize
Proxima Competition Special Mention
The Ecumenical Jury Award
The Ecumenical Jury Special Mention
The FIPRESCI Jury Award - Main Competition
The FIPRESCI Jury Award - Proxima Competition
Europa Cinemas Label Jury Award
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to Czech Cinema
Festival President’s Award
"Právo" Audience Award
2022 - 56. MFF Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
- Summer with Hope (Sadaf Foroughi)
- America (Ofir Raul Graizer)
- The Ordinaries (Sophie Linnenbaum)
- Fucking Bornholm (Anna Kazejak)
- You Have to Come and See It (Jonás Trueba)
- Borders of Love (Tomasz Wiński)
- The Word (Beata Parkanová)
- A Provincial Hospital (Ivan Chertov, Ilian Metev, Zlatina Teneva)
- Silence 6-9 (Hristos Passalis)
- Vesper (Kristina Buožytė, Bruno Samper)
- A Room of My Own (Ioseb Bliadze)
- A Far Shore (Masaaki Kudô)
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Special Jury Prize
Proxima Competition Award
- Art Talent Show (Tomáš Bojar, Adéla Komrzý)
- And Then There Was Love... (Šimon Holý)
- Another Spring (Mladen Kovačević)
- Zoo Lock Down (Andreas Horvath)
- La Pietà (Eduardo Casanova)
- Fools (Tomasz Wasilewski)
- The Uncle (David Kapac, Andrija Mardešić)
- Horseplay (Marco Berger)
- Ramona (Andrea Bagney)
- Tinnitus (Gregorio Graziosi)
- Like a Fish on the Moon (Dornaz Hajiha)
- In Broad Daylight (Emmanuel Tardif)
Proxima Special Jury Prize
Proxima Competition Special Mention
The Ecumenical Jury Award
The FIPRESCI Jury Award - Main Competition
The FIPRESCI Jury Award - Proxima Competition
Europa Cinemas Label Jury Award
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema
Festival President’s Award
"Právo" Audience Award
2021 - 55. MFF Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
- As Far as I Can Walk (Stefan Arsenijevic)
- Bird Atlas (Olmo Omerzu)
- Boiling Point (Philip Barantini)
- Wars (Nicolas Roy)
- Every Single Minute (Erika Hníková, Jiří Konečný)
- At Full Throttle (Miro Remo)
- Nö (Dietrich Brüggemann)
- Prince (Lisa Bierwirth)
- The Land of the Sons (Claudio Cupellini)
- The Staffroom (Sonja Tarokić)
- Saving One Who Was Dead (Václav Kadrnka)
- The Exam (Shawkat Amin Korki)
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Special Jury Prize
Special Mention
- The Staffroom (Sonja Tarokić)
- Boiling Point (Vinette Robinson)
- As Far as I Can Walk (Jelena Stanković)
East of the West Prize
- Nuuccha (Vladimir Munkuev)
- Dear Ones (Grzegorz Jaroszuk)
- Sisterhood (Dina Duma)
- Intensive Life Unit (Adéla Komrzý)
- Wild Roots (Hajni Kis)
- Roots (Tea Lukač)
- Two Ships (Jan Foukal)
- After the Winter (Ivan Bakrač)
- Otar's Death (Ioseb Bliadze)
- Patchwork (Petros Charalambous)
- Runner (Andrius Blaževičius)
- Mirrors in the Dark (Šimon Holý)
East of the West Prize - Special Mention
International Film Critics Award
The Ecumenical Jury Award
The Ecumenical Jury Special Award
The FEDEORA Jury Award
The FEDEORA Jury Award - Special Mention
Europa Cinemas Label Jury Award
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema
Festival President’s Award
"Právo" Audience Award
2019 - 54. MFF Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
- The Father (Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov)
- Mosaic Portrait
- Monsoon
- Lara
- Ode to Nothing
- The August Virgin
- To the Stars
- Half-Sister
- Let There Be Light
- Patrick
- The Man from the Future
- La Belle Indifference
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Special Jury Prize
Special Mention
- The Man from the Future (Antonia Giesen) (herecký výkon)
- The August Virgin (Jonás Trueba)
Best Documentary
Documentary - Special Mention
East of the West Prize
East of the West Prize - Special Mention
The Ecumenical Jury Award
The FIPRESCI Jury Award - Main Competition
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to Czech Cinema
"Právo" Audience Award
2018 - 53. MFF Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
- “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (Radu Jude)
- Redemption (Yossi Madmoni, Boaz Yehonatan Yaacov)
- Panic Attack (Paweł Maślona)
- Winter Flies (Olmo Omerzu)
- Domestique (Adam Sedlák)
- Jumpman (Ivan I. Tverdovskiy)
- The Fireflies Are Gone (Sébastien Pilote)
- Miriam Lies (Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada)
- Brothers (Ömür Atay)
- Florianópolis Dream (Ana Katz)
- To the Night (Peter Brunner)
- History of Love (Sonja Prosenc)
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Special Jury Prize
Special Mention
Best Documentary
Documentary - Special Mention
East of the West Prize
East of the West Prize - Special Mention
International Film Critics Award
The Ecumenical Jury Award
The FEDEORA Jury Award
Europa Cinemas Label Jury Award
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to Czech Cinema
Festival President’s Award
"Právo" Audience Award
2017 - 52. MFF Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
- Little Crusader (Václav Kadrnka)
- Arrhythmia (Boris Khlebnikov)
- Breaking News (Iulia Rugină)
- Ralang Road (Karma Takapa)
- The Cakemaker (Ofir Raul Graizer)
- The Line (Peter Bebjak)
- Keep the Change (Rachel Israel)
- Khibula (George Ovashvili)
- Men Don't Cry (Alen Drljević)
- More (Onur Saylak)
- Corporate (Nicolas Silhol)
- Birds Are Singing in Kigali (Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze)
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Special Jury Prize
Special Mention
- Keep the Change (Rachel Israel) za nejlepšího nováčka
- Breaking News (Voica Oltean) za nejlepší debut
Best Documentary
Documentary - Special Mention
East of the West Prize
East of the West Prize - Special Mention
International Film Critics Award
The Ecumenical Jury Award
The FEDEORA Jury Award
The FEDEORA Jury Award - Special Mention
Europa Cinemas Label Jury Award
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema
Festival President’s Award
"Právo" Audience Award
2016 - 51. MFF Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
- It's Not the Time of My Life (Szabolcs Hajdu)
- Nightlife (Damjan Kozole)
- The Next Skin (Isabel Campo, Isaki Lacuesta)
- My Father's Wings (Kıvanç Sezer)
- We're Still Together (Jesse Klein)
- Original Bliss (Sven Taddicken)
- The Teacher (Jan Hřebejk)
- By the Rails (Cătălin Mitulescu)
- The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (Jan Němec)
- Waves (Grzegorz Zariczny)
- Zoology (Ivan I. Tverdovskiy)
- The Confessions (Roberto Andò)
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Special Jury Prize
Special Mention
Best Documentary
Documentary - Special Mention
East of the West Prize
East of the West Prize - Special Mention
International Film Critics Award
The Ecumenical Jury Award
The FEDEORA Jury Award
Europa Cinemas Label Jury Award
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to Czech Cinema
Festival President’s Award
"Právo" Audience Award
2015 - 50. MFF Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
- Bob and the Trees (Diego Ongaro)
- Antonia (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino)
- Father (Visar Morina)
- Box (Florin Şerban)
- Home Care (Slávek Horák)
- Heil (Dietrich Brüggemann)
- The Snake Brothers (Jan Prušinovský)
- The Magic Mountain (Anca Damian)
- Those Who Fall Have Wings (Peter Brunner)
- Song of Songs (Ева Нейман)
- Gold Coast (Daniel Dencik)
- The Red Spider (Marcin Koszałka)
- The Sound of Trees (François Péloquin)
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Special Jury Prize
Best Documentary under 30 Minutes
Best Documentary over 60 Minutes
Independent Forum Award
East of the West Prize
International Film Critics Award
The Ecumenical Jury Award
The FEDEORA Jury Award
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema
Festival President’s Award
2014 - 49. MFF Karlovy Vary
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actress Award
Best Actor Award
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
- Corn Island (George Ovashvili)
- Low Down (Jeff Preiss)
- Patchwork Family (Pascal Rabaté)
- Adventure (Nariman Turebayev)
- Nowhere in Moravia (Miroslav Krobot)
- Fair Play (Andrea Sedláčková)
- I'm Yours (David Lambert)
- Paris of the North (Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson)
- Perpetual Sadness (Jorge Pérez Solano)
- Free Fall (György Pálfi)
- Welcome Home (Ангелина Никонова)
- Rocks in My Pockets (Signe Baumane)