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The Golden Shell (Spanish: Concha de Oro; Basque: Urrezko Maskorra) is the highest prize given to a competing film at the San Sebastián Film Festival. It was introduced in 1957. 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).
Award winners
Year |
Film |
Director |
Country |
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1953 | La Guerra de Dios | Rafael Gil | ![]() |
1954 | Sierra maldita | Antonio del Amo | ![]() |
1955 | Giorni d'amore | Giuseppe de Santis | ![]() |
1956 | Il ferroviere | Pietro Germi | ![]() |
1957 | Oh! Sabella (La nonna Sabella) |
Dino Risi | ![]() |
1958 | Ewa chce spac | Tadeusz Chmielewski | ![]() |
1959 | The Nun's Story | Fred Zinnemann | ![]() |
1960 | Romeo, Juliet and Darkness | Jiri Weiss | ![]() |
1961 | One-Eyed Jacks | Marlon Brando | ![]() |
1962 | Arturo's Island (L’isola di Arturo) |
Damiano Damiani | ![]() |
1963 | Mafioso | Alberto Lattuada | ![]() |
1964 | America, America | Elia Kazan | ![]() |
1965 | Golden Queen (Zlatá reneta) Mirage (tie) |
Otakar Vávra Edward Dmytryk |
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1966 | I Was Happy Here | Desmond Davis | ![]() |
1967 | Two for the Road | Stanley Donen | ![]() |
1968 | The Long Day’s Dying | Peter Collinson | ![]() |
1969 | The Rain People | Francis Ford Coppola | ![]() |
1970 | Dead of Summer (Ondata di calore) |
Nelo Risi | ![]() |
1971 | Claire's Knee (Le genou de Claire) |
Eric Rohmer | ![]() |
1972 | The Glass House | Tom Gries | ![]() |
1973 | The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) |
Víctor Erice | ![]() |
1974 | Badlands | Terrence Malick | ![]() |
1975 | Poachers (Furtivos) |
José Luis Borau | ![]() |
1976 | Queen of the Gypsies (Tabor ujodit v niebo) |
Emil Loteanu | ![]() |
1977 | An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano (Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino) |
Nikita Mikhalkov | ![]() |
1978 | The Illegal (Alambrista!) |
Robert M. Young | ![]() |
1979 | Autumn Marathon (Ossenij marafon) |
Georgi Daneliya | ![]() |
1980 | Dyrygent | Andrzej Wajda | ![]() |
1981 | Storie di ordinaria follia | Marco Ferreri | ![]() |
1982 | Demons in the Garden (Demonios en el jardín) |
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | ![]() |
1983 | Between Us (Coup de foudre) |
Diane Kurys | ![]() |
1984 | Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | ![]() |
1985 | Yesterday | Radoslaw Piwowarski | ![]() |
1986 | Half of Heaven (La mitad del cielo) |
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | ![]() |
1987 | Wedding in Galilee (Urs al-jalil) |
Michel Khleifi | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1988 | On the Black Hill | Andrew Grieve | ![]() |
1989 | Homer and Eddie La nación clandestina (tie) |
Andrei Konchalovski Jorge Sanjinés |
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1990 | Letters from Alou (Las cartas de Alou) |
Montxo Armendáriz | ![]() |
1991 | Butterfly Wings (Alas de Mariposa) |
Juanma Bajo Ulloa | ![]() |
1992 | A Place in the World (Un lugar en el mundo) |
Adolfo Aristarain | ![]() |
1993 | The Beginning and the End (Principio y fin) Sara |
Arturo Ripstein Dariush Mehrjui |
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1994 | Running Out of Time (Días contados) |
Imanol Uribe | ![]() |
1995 | Margaret's Museum | Mort Ransen | ![]() ![]() |
1996 | Bwana Trojan Eddie (tie) |
Imanol Uribe Gillies Mackinnon |
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1997 | The Swindle (Rien ne va plus) |
Claude Chabrol | ![]() |
1998 | Wind with the Gone (El viento se llevó lo qué) |
Alejandro Agresti | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1999 | C'est quoi la vie? | François Dupeyron | ![]() |
2000 | The Ruination of Men (La perdición de los hombres) |
Arturo Ripstein | ![]() |
2001 | A Cab for Three (Taxi para tres) |
Orlando Lübbert | ![]() |
2002 | Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol) |
Fernando León de Aranoa | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2003 | Gun-shy (Schussangst) |
Dito Tsintsadze | ![]() |
2004 | Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand) |
Bahman Ghobadi | ![]() ![]() |
2005 | Something Like Happiness (Štěstí) |
Bohdan Sláma | ![]() |
2006 | Half Moon (Niwemang) Mon fils à moi (tie) |
Bahman Ghobadi Martial Fougeron |
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2007 | A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | Wayne Wang | ![]() |
2008 | Pandora's Box (Pandora'nın kutusu) |
Yeşim Ustaoğlu | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2009 | City of Life and Death (Nánjīng! Nánjīng!) |
Lu Chuan | ![]() |
2010 | Neds | Peter Mullan | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2011 | Los pasos dobles | Isaki Lacuesta | ![]() ![]() |
2012 | In the House (Dans la maison) |
François Ozon | ![]() |
2013 | Bad Hair (Pelo Malo) |
Mariana Rondón | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2014 | Magical Girl | Carlos Vermut | ![]() |
2015 | Sparrows (Þrestir) |
Rúnar Rúnarsson | ![]() ![]() |
2016 | I Am Not Madame Bovary | Feng Xiaogang | ![]() |
2017 | The Disaster Artist | James Franco | ![]() |
2018 | Entre dos aguas | Isaki Lacuesta | ![]() |
*denotes first win for a nation
External links
Official website(in Spanish) (in Basque) (in English)
San Sebastián International Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database
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