Golden Shell

{{short description|Best Film award at San Sebastián Film Festival}}

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The Golden Shell{{refn|group=n.|Also referred to in English-language sources as the Golden Conch.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/oct/01/filmnews.film|website=The Guardian|date=1 October 2001|first=Fiachra|last=Gibbons|title=Distribution 'key to film maker's success'}}{{Cite book|page=3|year=2011|title=Film Festivals: Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen|first=Cindy Hing-Yuk|last=Wong|location=New Brunswick|isbn=978-0-8135-5065-7|publisher=Rutgers University Press}}}} ({{langx|es|Concha de Oro|links=no}}; {{langx|eu|Urrezko Maskorra|links=no}}) is the highest prize given to a competing film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com:443/1953/awards_and_jury_members/awards/1/46/in|title=San Sebastian Film Festival|website=sansebastianfestival|access-date=2019-10-02}} It was introduced in 1957.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com:443/1957/awards_and_jury_members/awards/1/50/in|title=San Sebastian Film Festival|website=sansebastianfestival|access-date=2019-10-02}} In 1953 and 1954, the highest prize had been called the Gran Premio. In 1955 and 1956 it was replaced by the Silver Shell. Six directors have won the Golden Shell twice: American director Francis Ford Coppola (in 1969 & 1984), Spanish director Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (in 1982 & 1986), Mexican director Arturo Ripstein (in 1993 & 2000), Spanish director Imanol Uribe (in 1994 & 1996), Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (in 2004 & 2006), and Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta (in 2011 & 2018).

Winners

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Year

!English Title

! Original Title

! Director(s)

! Production Country

1953

|I Was a Parish Priest|| La Guerra de Dios || Rafael Gil || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} Spain

1954

|Cursed Mountain|| Sierra maldita || Antonio del Amo

1955

|Days of Love|| Giorni d'amore || Giuseppe de Santis || rowspan="3" | {{flagcountry|Italy}}

1956

|The Railroad Man|| Il ferroviere || Pietro Germi

1957

|Oh! Sabella|| La nonna Sabella || Dino Risi

1958

|Eve Wants to Sleep|| Ewa chce spać || Tadeusz Chmielewski || {{flagcountry|Poland|1928}}

1959

| colspan="2" |The Nun's Story|| Fred Zinnemann || {{USA}}

1960

|Romeo, Juliet and Darkness|| Romeo, Julie a tma || Jiri Weiss || {{flagcountry|Czechoslovakia}}

1961

| colspan="2" |One-Eyed Jacks|| Marlon Brando || {{USA}}

1962

|Arturo's Island|| L'isola di Arturo || Damiano Damiani || rowspan="2" | {{ITA}}

1963

| colspan="2" |Mafioso|| Alberto Lattuada

1964

| colspan="2" |America, America|| Elia Kazan || {{USA}}

rowspan="2" | 1965

|Golden Queen|| Zlatá reneta ||Otakar Vávra||{{flagcountry|Czechoslovakia}}

colspan="2" |Mirage

|Edward Dmytryk

|{{USA}}

1966

| colspan="2" |I Was Happy Here|| Desmond Davis || {{UK}}

1967

| colspan="2" |Two for the Road|| Stanley Donen || {{USA}}

1968

| colspan="2" |The Long Day's Dying|| Peter Collinson || {{UK}}

1969

| colspan="2" |The Rain People|| Francis Ford Coppola || {{USA}}

1970

|Dead of Summer|| Ondata di calore || Nelo Risi || {{ITA}}

1971

|Claire's Knee|| Le Genou de Claire || Eric Rohmer || {{FRA}}

1972

| colspan="2" |The Glass House|| Tom Gries || {{USA}}

1973

|The Spirit of the Beehive|| El espíritu de la colmena || Víctor Erice || {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} Spain

1974

| colspan="2" |Badlands|| Terrence Malick || {{USA}}

1975

|Poachers || Furtivos || José Luis Borau || {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} Spain

1976

|Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven

| Табор уходит в небо || Emil Loteanu || rowspan="2" | {{USSR}}

1977

|An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano|| Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино || Nikita Mikhalkov

1978

| colspan="2" |Alambrista!|| Robert M. Young || {{USA}}

1979

|Autumn Marathon || Осенний марафон || Georgi Daneliya || {{USSR}}

1980

|The Orchestra Conductor|| Dyrygent || Andrzej Wajda || {{flagcountry|Poland}}

1981

|Tales of Ordinary Madness|| Storie di ordinaria follia || Marco Ferreri || {{ITA}}

1982

|Demons in the Garden|| Demonios en el jardín || Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón || {{flagcountry|Spain}}

1983

| colspan="2" |Entre Nous|| Diane Kurys || {{FRA}}

1984

| colspan="2" |Rumble Fish|| Francis Ford Coppola || {{USA}}

1985

| colspan="2" |Yesterday|| Radosław Piwowarski || {{flagcountry|Poland}}

1986

|Half of Heaven|| La mitad del cielo || Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón || {{flagcountry|Spain}}

1987

|Wedding in Galilee|| عرس الجليل || Michel Khleifi || {{flagcountry|Belgium}}{{FRA}}

1988

| colspan="2" |On the Black Hill|| Andrew Grieve || {{UK}}

rowspan="2" | 1989

| colspan="2" |Homer and Eddie||Andrei Konchalovski ||{{USA}}

colspan="2" |La nación clandestina

|Jorge Sanjinés

|{{flagcountry|Bolivia}}

1990

|Letters from Alou|| Las cartas de Alou || Montxo Armendáriz || rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Spain}}

1991

|Butterfly Wings|| Alas de mariposa || Juanma Bajo Ulloa

1992

|A Place in the World|| Un lugar en el mundo || Adolfo Aristarain || {{flagcountry|Argentina}}

rowspan="2" | 1993

|The Beginning and the End|| Principio y fin||Arturo Ripstein||{{flagcountry|Mexico}}

Sara

|سارا

|Dariush Mehrjui

|{{flagcountry|Iran}}

1994

| colspan="2" |Días contados|| Imanol Uribe || {{flagcountry|Spain}}

1995

| colspan="2" |Margaret's Museum|| Mort Ransen || {{flagcountry|Canada}} {{UK}}

rowspan="2" | 1996

| colspan="2" |Bwana ||Imanol Uribe||{{flagcountry|Spain}}

colspan="2" |Trojan Eddie

|Gillies MacKinnon

|{{flagcountry|Ireland}}

1997

|The Swindle|| Rien ne va plus || Claude Chabrol || {{FRA}}

1998

|Wind with the Gone|| El viento se llevó lo qué || Alejandro Agresti || {{flagcountry|Argentina}} {{flagcountry|FRA}}
{{flagcountry|Netherlands}} {{flagcountry|Spain}}

1999

| colspan="2" |C'est quoi la vie?|| François Dupeyron || {{FRA}}

2000

|The Ruination of Men||La perdición de los hombres

| Arturo Ripstein || {{flagcountry|Mexico}} {{flagcountry|Spain}}

2001

|A Cab for Three|| Taxi para tres || Orlando Lübbert || {{flagcountry|Chile}}

2002

|Mondays in the Sun|| Los lunes al sol || Fernando León de Aranoa || {{flagcountry|Spain}} {{FRA}} {{ITA}}

2003

|Gun-shy|| Schussangst || Dito Tsintsadze || {{flagcountry|Germany}}

2004

|Turtles Can Fly || کیسەڵەکانیش دەفڕن || Bahman Ghobadi || {{flagcountry|Iran}} {{FRA}} {{flagcountry|Iraq}}

2005

|Something Like Happiness|| Štěstí || Bohdan Sláma || {{flagcountry|Czech Republic}}

rowspan="2" | 2006

|Half Moon|| نیوەمانگ

|Bahman Ghobadi||{{flagcountry|Iran}}

colspan="2" |Mon fils à moi

|Martial Fougeron

|{{FRA}}

2007

| colspan="2" |A Thousand Years of Good Prayers|| Wayne Wang || {{USA}}

2008

|Pandora's Box|| Pandora'nın Kutusu || Yeşim Ustaoğlu || {{flagcountry|Turkey}}

2009

|City of Life and Death|| 南京!南京! || Lu Chuan || {{flagcountry|China}}

2010

| colspan="2" |Neds|| Peter Mullan || {{UK}}
{{FRA}} {{flagcountry|ITA}}

2011

| colspan="2" |Los pasos dobles||Isaki Lacuesta || {{ESP}} {{flagcountry|CHE}}

2012

|In the House|| Dans la maison || François Ozon || {{flagcountry|FRA}}

2013

|Bad Hair|| Pelo malo || Mariana Rondón || {{flagcountry|VEN}} {{flagcountry|PER}} {{flagcountry|GER}}

2014

| colspan="2" |Magical Girl|| Carlos Vermut || {{flagcountry|ESP}}

2015

|Sparrows|| Þrestir || Rúnar Rúnarsson || {{flagcountry|DEN}} {{flagcountry|ISL}}

2016

|I Am Not Madame Bovary|| 我不是潘金莲 || Feng Xiaogang || {{flagcountry|China}}

2017

| colspan="2" |The Disaster Artist|| James Franco || {{flagcountry|USA}}

2018

|Between Two Waters|| Entre dos Aguas || Isaki Lacuesta || {{flagcountry|ESP}}

2019

|Pacified{{Cite web |date=2019-09-03 |title=San Sebastian Film Festival :: |url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903025945/https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/ |archive-date=2019-09-03 |access-date=2019-10-05}}||Pacificado || Paxton Winters || {{flagcountry|BRA}}

2020

|Beginning{{Cite web |date=2020-09-26 |title=Official Awards - FIAPF |url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2020/awards_and_jury_members/1/8731/in |access-date=2020-09-26}}||დასაწყისი || Déa Kulumbegashvili || {{flagcountry|GEO}}

2021

|Blue Moon

|Crai Nou

|Alina Grigore

|{{flagcountry|ROU}}

2022

|The Kings of the World

|Los reyes del mundo

|Laura Mora

|{{flagcountry|COL}}

2023

|The Rye Horn

|O corno

|Jaione Camborda

|{{ESP}} {{POR}} {{BEL}}

2024

|Afternoons of Solitude

|Tardes de soledad

|Albert Serra

|{{ESP}} {{POR}} {{FRA}}

See also

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