IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention

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IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention
International award for contributions to World Cinema
Awarded forExcellency in Film Art
Sponsored byDirectorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)Special Jury Award
Special Mention
First awarded1969, 1998
Last awarded2023
Most recent winnerRishab Shetty for Kantara
Highlights
Total awarded41
First winnerLester James Peries
Last winnerLav Diaz
Praveen Kandregula

The IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention (officially known as the Silver Peacock - Special Jury Award and Special Mention) are the two honors presented annually at the International Film Festival of India for excellency in Film Art in World cinema.[1] It was first presented during the 4th IFFI 1969.[2] The award was later re-instated since 29th IFFI 1998.[3][4] On the occasion of 100 years of Indian cinema, Centenary Awards were conferred during 2012, 2013, and 2014.[5][6] The Special Mention being awarded since the 46th IFFI 2015.[7]

Recipients[edit]

IFFI Special Jury Award (1969–Present)[edit]

List of Silver Peacock award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)
Year Recipient(s) Work(s) Language(s) Ref.
1969
(4th)
Lester James Peries
Mrinal Sen
Sobhan Babu
"Golu Hadawatha"
"Bhuvan Shome"
"Bangaru Panjaram"
Sinhala
Bengali
Telugu
[1]
1998
(29th)
Santwana Bardoloi "Adajya" Assamese [3][4]
2000
(31st)
Huo Jianqi "Postmen in the Mountains" Mandarin [8]
2002
(33rd)
Revathi
Magdy Ahmed Aly
"Mitr, My Friend"
"Asrar EL-Banat"
Hindi
Egyptian
[9]
2003
(34th)
Subhadro Chowdhury "Prohor" Bengali [10]
2004
(35th)
Gennady Sidorov "Old Women" Russian [11][12]
2005
(36th)
Tom Hooper "Red Dust" English (South Africa) [13]
2006
(37th)
Abu Sayeed "Nirontor" Bengali (Bangladesh) [14]
2007
(38th)
Golam Rabanny Biplab
Julia Urbini
"On The Wings of Dreams" (Bangladesh)
"More Than Anything in the World"
Bengali
Mexican
[15][16]
2008
(39th)
Malani Fonseka "Akasa Kusum" Sinhala [17]
2009
(40th)
Giorgi Ovashvili "The Other Bank" (Georgia) Russian [18]
2010
(41st)
Kaushik Ganguly
Taika Waititi
"Arekti Premer Golpo"
"Boy"
Bengali
English
[18]
2011
(42nd)
Salim Ahamed "Adaminte Makan Abu" Malayalam [19]
2012
(43rd)
Lucy Mulloy "Una noche" Spanish [5]
2013
(44th)
Onur Ünlü "Thou Gild'st the Even" Turkey [20]
2015
(46th)
Julia Vargas-Weise "Sealed Cargo" Spanish [21]
2016
(47th)
Lee Joon-ik "The Throne" Korean [22]
2017
(48th)
Mahesh Narayanan "Take Off" Malayalam [23]
2018
(49th)
Milko Lazarov "Ága" Yakut [24]
2019
(50th)
Pema Tseden "Balloon" Chinese [25]
2020
(51st)
Kamen Kalev "February" Bulgarian [26]
2021
(52nd)
Renata Carvalho
Nikhil Mahajan
"The First Fallen"
"Godavari"
Brazilian
Marathi
[27]
2022
(53rd)
Lav Diaz "When The Waves Are Gone" Filipino [28]
2023
(54th)
Rishab Shetty "Kantara" Kannada [29]

Recipients[edit]

IFFI Special Mention (2015–Present)[edit]

List of Special Mention recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)
Year Recipient(s) Work(s) Language(s) Ref.
2015
(46th)
Goran Radovaovic "Enclave" Serbian [21]
2016
(47th)
Tiffany Hsiung "The Apology" English [22]
2018
(49th)
Chezhiyan "To Let" Tamil [24]
2019
(50th)
Abhishek Shah "Hellaro" Gujarati [25]
2020
(51st)
Kripal Kalita "Bridge" Assamese [26]
2021
(52nd)
Simon Farriol
Roman Vasyanov
"The Wealth of the World"
"The Dorm"
English
Russian
[27]
2022
(53rd)
Praveen Kandregula "Cinema Bandi" Telugu [28]

IFFI Centenary Award (2012–2014)[edit]

List of Centenary Award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)
Year Recipient(s) Work(s) Language(s) Ref.
2012
(43rd)
Mira Nair "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" English [5]
2013
(44th)
Kamaleshwar Mukherjee "Meghe Dhaka Tara" Bengali [20]
2014
(45th)
Shrihari Sathe "Ek Hazarachi Note" Marathi [30]

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