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The Golden Shell is the highest prize given to a competing film at the San Sebastián Film Festival
San Sebastián International Film Festival
The San Sebastián International Film Festival is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spanish city of San Sebastián .-History:The festival was founded in 1953...

. 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. Five directors have won the Golden Shell twice: American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 director Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

 (in 1969 & 1984), Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 director Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director. His 1973 film Habla, mudita was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1977, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Camada negra at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival...

 (in 1982 & 1986), Mexican
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 director Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...

 (in 1993 & 2000), Iranian
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 director Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian film director of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan Province. Ghobadi belongs to the so called "new wave" of Iranian cinema.-Biography:...

 (in 2004 & 2006) and Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 director Imanol Uribe
Imanol Uribe
Imanol Uribe is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was born in San Salvador, and is of Basque ancestry. Uribe was married to María Barranco...

 (in 1994 & 1996).

Award winners

Year Film Director Country
1953 La Guerra de Dios Rafael Gil
Rafael Gil
Rafael Gil was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.- Filmography :*El hombre que se quiso matar .*Huella de luz. . –script too-*Viaje sin destino...

 
 Spain*
1954 Sierra maldita Antonio del Amo   Spain
1955 Giorni d'amore Giuseppe de Santis   Italy
1956 Il ferroviere Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di...

 
 Italy*
1957 Oh! Sabella
(La nonna Sabella)
Dino Risi 
1958 Le coeur au poing Charles Binamé
Charles Binamé
Charles Binamé is a Quebec director. He was born in Belgium and came to Montreal with his family at a young age. In 1971, he began work as an assistant director with the National Film Board of Canada. During the 1980s, he directed commercials in England...

 
 Early Modern France*
1959 The Nun's Story
The Nun's Story (film)
The Nun's Story is a 1959 Warner Brothers film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Audrey Hepburn. Based upon the 1956 novel of the same title by Kathryn Hulme, the story tells of the life of Sister Luke , a young Belgian woman who decides to enter a convent and make the many sacrifices...

Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann was an Austrian-American film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed films like High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons.-Life and career:...

 
*
1960 Romeo, Juliet a Tma Jiri Weiss   Czechoslovakia*
1961 One-Eyed Jacks
One-Eyed Jacks
One-Eyed Jacks, a 1961 Western, is the only film directed by actor Marlon Brando, who also played its lead character, Rio.The film was originally to be directed by Stanley Kubrick and Sam Peckinpah...

Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St...

 
1962 Arturo's Island
(L’isola di Arturo)
Damiano Damiani 
1963 Mafioso
Mafioso (1962 film)
Mafioso is a 1962 Italian Black comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada. The film stars Alberto Sordi as a factory manager who visits his hometown in Sicily and is tasked with performing a hit for the mafia...

Alberto Lattuada
Alberto Lattuada
Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada...

 
1964 America, America
America, America
America, America is a 1963 American dramatic film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan, from his own book.-Plot:...

Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan was an American director and actor, described by the New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". Born in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to Greek parents originally from Kayseri in Anatolia, the family emigrated...

 
1965 Golden Queen
(Zlatá reneta)

Mirage
Mirage
A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirare, meaning "to look at, to wonder at"...

(tie)
Otakar Vávra 
Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'.-Early life:Dmytryk was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada,...

 
 Czechoslovakia
1966 I Was Happy Here
I Was Happy Here
I Was Happy Here is a 1966 drama film directed by Desmond Davis. The film won three awards at the 1966 San Sebastián International Film Festival....

Desmond Davis
Desmond Davis
Desmond Davis is a British film and television director.-Early career:After serving a long apprenticeship as a clapper boy in the 1940s, with Britain's Army Film Unit, Davis eventually worked his way up to focus puller and camera operator in low-budget British films of the 1950s...

 
1967 Two for the Road Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen ; is an American film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are Singin' in the Rain and On the Town, both of which he co-directed with Gene Kelly. His other noteworthy films include Royal Wedding, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, Indiscreet, Damn...

 
1968 The Long Day’s Dying Peter Collinson
Peter Collinson (film director)
Peter Collinson was a British film director probably best known for directing the 1969 movie The Italian Job.- Early life :...

 
1969 The Rain People
The Rain People
The Rain People is a 1969 film by Francis Ford Coppola. Alongside Shirley Knight, leading players are James Caan and Robert Duvall, both of whom would later work with Coppola in The Godfather. Future film director and Coppola friend George Lucas worked as an aide on this film, and made a short...

Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

 
1970 Dead of Summer
(Ondata di calore)
Nelo Risi
Nelo Risi
Nelo Risi is an Italian poet and film director, brother of cinematographer Fernando Risi and director Dino Risi.-External links:...

 
1971 Claire's Knee
(Le genou de Claire)
Claire's Knee
Claire's Knee is a 1970 film by Éric Rohmer. It is the fifth movie in the series of the Six Moral Tales.-Plot:...

Eric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....

 
1972 The Glass House Tom Gries
Tom Gries
Thomas S. "Tom" Gries was an American TV and film director, writer and producer....

 
1973 The Spirit of the Beehive
(El espíritu de la colmena)
The Spirit of the Beehive
The Spirit of the Beehive is a 1973 Spanish drama film directed by Victor Erice. The film was Erice's debut and is considered a masterpiece of Spanish cinema...

Víctor Erice
Víctor Erice
Víctor Erice Aras is a Spanish film director.He studied law, political science, and economics at the University of Madrid. He also attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia in 1963 to study film direction...

 
 Spain
1974 Badlands
Badlands
A badlands is a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. It can resemble malpaís, a terrain of volcanic rock. Canyons, ravines, gullies, hoodoos and other such geological forms are common in badlands. They are often...

Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick
Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films....

 
1975 Poachers
(Furtivos)
José Luis Borau
José Luis Borau
José Luis Borau Moradell is a Spanish producer, screenwriter, writer, and film director. He has acted in some films.He won Goya Award as Best Director in 2000 for Leo....

 
 Spain
1976 Queen of the Gypsies
(Tabor ujodit v niebo)
Queen of the Gypsies
Queen of the Gypsies One of the songs near the introduction of the film had become popular on Youtube as the "Gypsie Song".It was the most attended movie in the Soviet Union in 1976, with 64.9 million tickets sold.-External links:*...

Emil Loteanu
Emil Loteanu
Emil Loteanu was a Soviet and Moldovian film director from Greater Romania. He moved to Moscow in his early life.- Biography :...

 
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1977 An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano
(Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino)
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess...

 
1978 The Illegal
(Alambrista!)
Robert M. Young 
1979 Autumn Marathon
(Ossenij marafon)
Autumn Marathon
Autumn Marathon is a 1979 Soviet comedy-drama, a winner of 1979 Venice Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival and 1980 Berlin Film Festival awards in the best director and best actor categories....

Georgi Daneliya
Georgi Daneliya
Georgi Daneliya is a Soviet/Georgian/Russian film director, who became known throughout the Soviet Union for his "sad comedies" .Daneliya graduated from the Moscow Architecture Institute and worked as an architect...

 
1980 Dyrygent Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...

 
 Poland*
1981 Storie di ordinaria follia Marco Ferreri 
1982 Demons in the Garden
(Demonios en el jardín)
Demonios en el Jardín
Demonios en el Jardín is a 1982 Spanish film directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, starring Ángela Molina, Ana Belén and Imanol Arias...

Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director. His 1973 film Habla, mudita was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1977, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Camada negra at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival...

 
 Spain
1983 Between Us
(Coup de foudre)
Diane Kurys
Diane Kurys
Diane Kurys is a French filmmaker and actress. Several of her films as director are autobiographical. Born in Lyon, Rhône, France, her parents divorced when she was a child. She began as an actress with Jean-Louis Barrault's company. She gained film stardom, but didn't like the roles she was...

 
1984 Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish is a 1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the novel Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay....

Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

 
1985 Yesterday Radoslaw Piwowarski   Poland
1986 Half of Heaven
(La mitad del cielo)
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director. His 1973 film Habla, mudita was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1977, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Camada negra at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival...

 
 Spain
1987 Wedding in Galilee
(Urs al-jalil)
Wedding in Galilee
Wedding in Galilee is a 1987 film directed by Michel Khleifi. It was awarded the International Critics Prize at Cannes in 1987.-Synopsis:...

Michel Khleifi
Michel Khleifi
Michel Khleifi is a Palestinian film writer, director and producer. He emigrated from Israel in 1970 and now resides in Belgium. There, he studied television and theatre directing at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle . After graduating from INSAS, he worked in Belgium...

 
 Belgium* - -  Israel*
1988 On the Black Hill
On The Black Hill
On the Black Hill is a novel by Bruce Chatwin published in 1982 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for that year. In 1987 it was made into a film, directed by Andrew Grieve.- Plot summary :...

Andrew Grieve
Andrew Grieve
Andrew Grieve is a Welsh television and film director. Grieve's credits include episodes of Warship and Wire in the Blood. On the Black Hill, the screenplay of which he also wrote, won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 1988. He has also directed episodes of Agatha Christie's...

 
1989 Homer and Eddie
Homer and Eddie
Homer and Eddie is a 1989 American film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jim Belushi and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.-Plot:A homicidal escaped mental patient with a brain tumor and only a month to live meets a childlike mentally challenged traveling companion for a cross-country car trip that...


La nación clandestina (tie)
Andrei Konchalovski 
Jorge Sanjinés
Jorge Sanjinés
Jorge Sanjinés is a Bolivian film director and screenwriter. He founded the production group Groupo Ukamau. He won the ALBA Prize for Arts in 2009.-Film career:...

 

 Bolivia*
1990 Letters from Alou
(Las cartas de Alou)
Letters from Alou
Letters from Alou is 1990 Spanish film directed and written by Montxo Armendáriz.-Won:*Cinema Writers Circle Awards**Best Cinematography **Best Film**Best Screenplay – Original *Goya Awards...

Montxo Armendáriz
Montxo Armendáriz
Montxo Armendariz, born Ramón Armendariz Barrios, in Olleta, Orbaibar, in Navarra , Spain 1949, is an awarded Spanish screenwriter and film director....

 
 Spain
1991 Butterfly Wings
(Alas de Mariposa)
Alas de Mariposa
Alas de mariposa is a 1991 Spanish film written and directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa.-Plot:A poor couple wants to have a boy but instead they get a girl. A boy is born afterwards but something terrible happens, which ruins the relationship between mother and daughter....

Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Juan Manuel Bajo Ulloa is a Spanish Basque film director.- Biography :Juanma Bajo Ulloa was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain in 1967. He mortgage his house to obtain the money to produce his first film in 35mm, Alas de Mariposa...

 
 Spain
1992 A Place in the World
(Un lugar en el mundo)
A Place in the World (film)
A Place in the World is an Argentine drama film co-written, co-produced and directed by Adolfo Aristarain. The film features José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto, and others....

Adolfo Aristarain
Adolfo Aristarain
Adolfo Aristarain is an Argentine film director whom Variety has deemed a "master filmmaker."After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before...

 
 Argentina*
1993 The Beginning and the End
(Principio y fin)

Sara
Sara (film)
Sara is a 1992 motion picture directed by Dariush Mehrjui. The film is based on Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House, with Sara in the role of Nora, Hesam in the role of Torvald, Sima in the role of Ms Linde and Goshtasb in the role of Nils Krogstad.The movie won the Audience Award at the Nantes...

Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...

 
Dariush Mehrjui 
 Mexico*
 Iran*
1994 Running Out of Time
(Días contados)
Running Out of Time (1994 film)
Días contados is a 1994 Spanish film directed by Imanol Uribe, starring Carmelo Gómez and Ruth Gabriel.- Plot :...

Imanol Uribe
Imanol Uribe
Imanol Uribe is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was born in San Salvador, and is of Basque ancestry. Uribe was married to María Barranco...

 
 Spain
1995 Margaret's Museum
Margaret's Museum
Margaret's Museum is a critically acclaimed 1995 British-Canadian dark film drama, directed by Mort Ransen and based on Sheldon Currie's novel The Glace Bay Miners' Museum....

Mort Ransen   Canada* -
1996 Bwana
Trojan Eddie
Trojan Eddie
Trojan Eddie is a 1996 British-Irish crime drama film directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The film won an award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 1996....

(tie)
Imanol Uribe
Imanol Uribe
Imanol Uribe is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was born in San Salvador, and is of Basque ancestry. Uribe was married to María Barranco...

 
Gillies Mackinnon
Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon is a Scottish film director and writer.His film credits include Hideous Kinky, Small Faces and Regeneration.-Personal life:...

 
 Spain
 Republic of Ireland*
1997 The Swindle
(Rien ne va plus)
The Swindle (1997 film)
The Swindle is a 1997 French crime-comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert.-Cast:* Isabelle Huppert - Elizabeth / Betty* Michel Serrault - Victor* François Cluzet - Maurice Biagini* Jean-François Balmer - Monsieur K...

Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...

 
1998 Wind with the Gone
(El viento se llevó lo qué)
Alejandro Agresti
Alejandro Agresti
Alejandro Agresti is an Argentine film director and producer. He has become increasingly influential in the United States and directed The Lake House with top Hollywood actors Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in 2006....

 
 Argentina - -  Netherlands* -  Spain
1999 What's Life?
(C'est quoi la vie?)
François Dupeyron
François Dupeyron
François Dupeyron is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1977. His film La chambre des officiers was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...

 
2000 The Ruination of Men
(La perdición de los hombres)
Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...

 
 Mexico - Spain
2001 A Cab for Three
(Taxi para tres)
A Cab for Three
A Cab for Three is a 2001 Chilean film directed by Orlando Lubbert. It was Chile's submission to the 74th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:...

Orlando Lübbert   Chile*
2002 Mondays in the Sun
(Los lunes al sol)
Fernando León de Aranoa
Fernando León de Aranoa
Fernando León de Aranoa is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was noted for always saying his greatest work wouldn't come from his hands or mind but from his name. A new Fernando Leon of the 21st century would detail this masterpiece...

 
 Spain - -
2003 Gun-shy
(Schussangst)
Dito Tsintsadze
Dito Tsintsadze
Dito Tsintsadze is a Georgian film director and screenwriter. He has directed eleven films since 1988. His film Lost Killers was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Dakhatuli tsre...

 
 Germany*
2004 Turtles Can Fly
(Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand)
Turtles Can Fly
Turtles Can Fly Kurdish: Kûsî Jî Dikarin Bifirin) is a 2004 film written and directed by the Kurdish Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, with notable theme music composed by Hossein Alizadeh. It was the first film to be made in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.-Plot:The film is set in a Kurdish...

Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian film director of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan Province. Ghobadi belongs to the so called "new wave" of Iranian cinema.-Biography:...

 
 Iran -  Iraq*
2005 Something Like Happiness
(Štěstí)
Something Like Happiness
Something Like Happiness is a 2005 Czech movie directed by Bohdan Sláma. It is about finding hope in the midst of disappointment by three young people who grew up in the same run-down block of flats and are now coming of age. The film won the Golden Seashell at the San Sebastian Film...

Bohdan Sláma
Bohdan Sláma
Bohdan Sláma is a Czech film director. He studied at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague .- Filmography :* 2008 – Venkovský učitel...

 
 Czech Republic*
2006 Half Moon
(Niwemang)
Half Moon (film)
Half Moon is a 2006 film written and directed by the Iranian Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi. Half Moon is a joint production of Iran, Austria, France and Iraq...


Mon fils à moi
Mon fils à moi
Mon fils a moi is a French 2006 film directed by Martial Fougeron. The film is about an unbalanced mother bullying her 12-year-old son Julien .-Plot:...

(tie)
Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian film director of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan Province. Ghobadi belongs to the so called "new wave" of Iranian cinema.-Biography:...

 
Martial Fougeron 
 Iran
2007 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a 2007 drama feature film directed by Wayne Wang starring Yu Feihong, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha Lychnikoff, adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera...

Wayne Wang
Wayne Wang
Wayne Wang is a Chinese American film director.-Biography:Wang was born and raised in Hong Kong, and named after his father's favorite movie star, John Wayne...

 
2008 Pandora's Box
(Pandora'nın kutusu)
Pandora's Box (2008 film)
Pandora's Box is an award-winning 2008 Turkish drama film directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu.- Plot :Two sisters and a brother living in the centre of Istanbul are confronted with the care for their dementing mother who they brought back with them from the mountains near the...

Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Yeşim Ustaoğlu
- Life and career :Ustaoğlu was born in Çaykara in eastern Turkey and grew up in Trabzon on the Black Sea. After studying architecture at the Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, she worked as an architect, then as a journalist and a film critic. Before she made her feature film debut The Trace...

 
 Turkey* -  Belgium - -  Germany
2009 City of Life and Death
(Nánjīng! Nánjīng!)
Lu Chuan
Lu Chuan
Lu Chuan is a Chinese filmmaker and screenwriter. He is the son of the novelist, Lu Tianming.-Education:Educated at the People's Liberation Army International Relations University in Nanjing, Lu spent two years serving in the Army as a secretary to a general. After his time in the army, Lu...

 
 Mainland China*
2010 Neds Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and film-maker who has been appearing in films since 1990.-Early life:Mullan, the sixth of eight children, was born in Peterhead in the northeast of Scotland, the son of Patricia, a nurse, and Charles Mullan, a lab technician who worked at Glasgow University. He...

 
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2011 Los pasos dobles Isaki Lacuesta -

*denotes first win for a nation
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