IFFI Best Film Award

(Redirected from Golden Peacock)

The IFFI Best Film Award (officially known as the Golden Peacock for the Best Feature Film) is the main prize of the International Film Festival of India presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India.[3][4] It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with the Golden Peacock a representation of the Peacock, India’s national bird, with a permanent motto of the festival Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The whole world is a family).[5] The award is announced for films produced in a year across the world. The award was instituted in 1965 from the 3rd IFFI competitive edition.[5][6]

IFFI Best Film Award
Golden Peacock
Awarded for"Outstanding film of a high aesthetic and technical standard and educational and culture value"[1]
Sponsored byInternational Film Festival of India
First awarded1965; 59 years ago (1965)[2]
Last awarded2023
Most recent winnerEndless Borders
Highlights
Total awarded36
First winnerGamperaliya

List of recipients

edit

The award carries a cash prize of 40 lakh (US$48,000) shared equally between the director and producer. The director will receive the Golden Peacock and a certificate in addition to the cash prize. The producer will receive a certificate in addition to the cash.

Year Film Original Title Director Country
1965 Gamperaliya Lester James Peries   Sri Lanka
1969 The Damned Luchino Visconti   Italy
1974 Dreaming Youth János Rózsás   Hungary
1977 Brother and Sister Ani Imōto Tadashi Imai   Japan
1979 Hungarian Rhapsody Miklós Jancsó   Hungary
1981 The Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes Rangel Valchanov   Bulgaria
Aakrosh Govind Nihalani   India
1983 Not Awarded Not Awarded Not Awarded Not Awarded
1985 The Bostonians James Ivory   United Kingdom
Ruthless Romance Eldar Ryazanov   Russia
1987 Farewell Green Summer Proshal Zelen Leta Elyer Ishmukhamedov   Russia
1996 Blush Li Shaohong   China
1998 The King of Masks Wu Tianming   China
2000 Karunam Karunam Jayaraj   India
Railroad Man Poppoya Yasuo Furuhata   Japan
2002 Letters to Elza Igor Maslennikov   Russia
2003 At Five in the Afternoon Panj é asr Samira Makhmalbaf   Iran /   France
2004 The Beautiful City Shah-re ziba Asghar Farhadi   Iran
2005 Iron Island Jazireh ahani Mohammad Rasoulof   Iran
2006 The Old Barber Hasi Chaolu   China
2007 The Wall Lin Chih Ju   Taiwan
2008 Tulpan Sergei Dvortsevoy   Kazakhstan /   Russia
2009 Cannot Live Without You Leon Dai   Taiwan
2010 Moner Manush Gautam Ghose   India
2011 Porfirio Alejandro Landes   Colombia /   Argentina
2012 Anhe Ghore Da Daan Gurvinder Singh   India
2013 Beatriz's War A Guerra da Beatriz Luigi Acquisto / Bety Reis   Timor-Leste
2014 Leviathan Leviafan Andrey Zvyagintsev   Russia
2015 Embrace of the Serpent El abrazo de la serpiente Ciro Guerra   Colombia
2016 Daughter Dokhtar Reza Mirkarimi   Iran
2017 BPM (Beats per Minute) Robin Campillo   France
2018 Donbass Sergei Loznitsa   Ukraine
2019 Particles Les particules Blaise Harrison   France /    Switzerland
2020 Into the Darkness De forbandede år Anders Refn   Denmark
2021 Ring Wandering リング・ワンダリング Masakazu Kaneko   Japan
2022 I Have Electric Dreams Tengo sueños eléctricos Valentina Maurel   Spain
2023 Endless Borders Abbas Amini   Iran

Discontinued awards

edit

Silver Peacock Award winners (Best Feature Film)

edit
Edition Film Director Country
3rd Nirjan Saikate Tapan Sinha   India
4th Man and the Crow (Short Film)   Sri Lanka
29th Paper Airplanes Farhad Mehhranfar   Iran
45th Ek Hazarachi Note Shrihari Sathe   India
Edition Film Country
3rd Cyclone   Cuba
4th Taking off at 1800 Hours   Cuba
5th Automatic   Czechoslovakia
6th After the Silence   India
7th An Encounter with Faces
Olympic Games
  India
  Poland
8th A Period of Transition   Denmark
9th Not Awarded Not Awarded
10th Narcissus   Canada
11th Not Awarded Not Awarded

Other awards

edit

Special Awards for Short Films at the 42nd IFFI

edit
  • Vasudha award for “A Pestering Journey” by K. R. Manoj
  • Second prize of Golden Lamp Tree: “Another Planet” by Smita Bhide
  • Silver Lamp Tree award: “Crazy Beats Strong Every Time’ by Mool Monson
  • International Jury Prize: “Khule Darwaze” by Ashish Pande
  • Special Jury Prize: "Anthony Gonsolves" by Ashok Rane

References

edit
  1. ^ "Directorate of Film Festival" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  2. ^ "International Film Festival in India". rrtd.nic.in. Archived from the original on 21 November 2004. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  3. ^ "One of Asia's First Film Festivals – IFFI over the years". 3 October 2017. Archived from the original on 8 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Key highlights of the 46th International Film Festival of India". PIB. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  5. ^ a b Saverio Giovacchini; Robert Sklar (1 December 2011). Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 179–. ISBN 978-1-61703-122-9. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  6. ^ "Directorate of Film Festival" (PDF). iffi.nic.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
edit