Donostia Award

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The Donostia Award (Spanish: Premio Donostia; Basque: Donostia Saria) is an honorary award created in 1986 which is given every year to a number of actors and filmmakers in the San Sebastián International Film Festival.[1] It derives its name from Donostia, the Basque name of San Sebastián.[2]

Recipients

Year Recipient[3] Profession Nationality Notes
1986 Gregory Peck Actor United States
Gene Tierney Actress United States The award to Tierney was announced prior to the festival, but was not handed as Tierney did not eventually travel to San Sebastián.[4]
1987 Glenn Ford Actor Canada / United States
1988 Vittorio Gassman Actor, filmmaker and screenwriter Italy
1989 Bette Davis Actress United States
1990 Claudette Colbert Actress United States
1991 Anthony Perkins Actor United States
1992 Lauren Bacall Actress United States
1993 Robert Mitchum Actor United States
1994 Lana Turner Actress United States
1995 Susan Sarandon Actress United States
Catherine Deneuve Actress France
1996 Al Pacino Actor United States
1997 Michael Douglas Actor and producer United States
Jeremy Irons Actor United Kingdom
1998 Jeanne Moreau Actress and filmmaker France
Anthony Hopkins Actor, filmmaker and producer United Kingdom
John Malkovich Actor United States
1999 Anjelica Huston Actress United States
Fernando Fernán Gómez Actor, screenwriter and filmmaker Spain
Vanessa Redgrave Actress United Kingdom
2000 Michael Caine Actor United Kingdom
Robert De Niro Actor United States
2001 Julie Andrews Actress and singer United Kingdom The award was announced prior to the festival, but was not handed in person as Andrews cancelled her trip to San Sebastián in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.[5]
Warren Beatty Actor and filmmaker United States The award was announced prior to the festival, but was not handed in person as Beatty cancelled his trip to San Sebastián in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.[5]
Francisco Rabal Actor Spain Rabal died weeks before the festival, and the award was handed posthumously to his grandson Liberto Rabal [es].[6]
2002 Jessica Lange Actress United States
Bob Hoskins Actor and filmmaker United Kingdom
Dennis Hopper Actor and filmmaker United States
Francis Ford Coppola Filmmaker, producer and screenwriter United States
2003 Robert Duvall Actor and filmmaker United States
Sean Penn Actor and filmmaker United States
Isabelle Huppert Actress France
2004 Annette Bening Actress United States
Jeff Bridges Actor United States
Woody Allen Actor, filmmaker and screenwriter United States
2005 Willem Dafoe Actor United States
Ben Gazzara Actor United States
2006 Max von Sydow Actor Sweden / France
Matt Dillon Actor United States
2007 Liv Ullmann Actress and filmmaker Norway
Richard Gere Actor United States
2008 Meryl Streep Actress United States
Antonio Banderas Actor and filmmaker Spain
2009 Ian McKellen Actor United Kingdom
2010 Julia Roberts Actress United States
2011 Glenn Close Actress United States
2002 Oliver Stone Filmmaker, producer and screenwriter United States
Ewan McGregor Actor United Kingdom
Tommy Lee Jones Actor United States
John Travolta Actor United States
Dustin Hoffman Actor United States
2013 Carmen Maura Actress Spain
Hugh Jackman Actor Australia
2014 Denzel Washington Actor, producer and filmmaker United States
Benicio del Toro Actor Puerto Rico
2015 Emily Watson Actress United Kingdom
2016 Sigourney Weaver Actress United States
Ethan Hawke Actor, filmmaker and screenwriter United States
2017 Ricardo Darín Actor and producer Argentina
Monica Bellucci Actress Italy
Agnès Varda Filmmaker, screenwriter and artist France
2018 Hirokazu Kore-eda Filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor Japan
Danny DeVito Actor and filmmaker United States
Judi Dench Actress United Kingdom
2019 Penélope Cruz Actress Spain
Costa-Gavras Filmmaker, producer and screenwriter Greece / France
Donald Sutherland Actor Canada
2020 Viggo Mortensen Actor United States / Denmark
2021 Johnny Depp Actor United States
Marion Cotillard Actress France
2022 Juliette Binoche Actress France
David Cronenberg Filmmaker, screenwriter and actor Canada
2023 Javier Bardem Actor Spain The award to Bardem was announced for the 2023 edition, but the award event was later postponed for the 2024 edition due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.[7]
Víctor Erice Filmmaker and screenwriter Spain
Hayao Miyazaki Animator and filmmaker Japan Miyazaki was handed the award virtually from Tokyo.[8]

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ "San Sebastian Film Festival". sansebastianfestival. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  2. ^ (in Spanish) «Donostia-San Sebastián: Onomástica», Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia.
  3. ^ (in English) Donostia Awards, sansebastianfestival.com.
  4. ^ Aldarondo, Ricardo (2016-09-14). "Diego Galán: "Hace treinta años había que empezar de cero y explicar dónde estaba San Sebastián"". diariovasco.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  5. ^ a b Burgueño, Ana (2010-09-10). ""Este modelo de festival no resistiría más recortes"". noticiasdegipuzkoa.eus (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  6. ^ "Paco Rabal recibe un emocionado homenaje en el Festival de San Sebastián". hola.com (in European Spanish). 2001-09-25. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  7. ^ "La entrega del Premio Donostia 2023 a Javier Bardem se pospone hasta el Zinemaldia de 2024". cope.es (in European Spanish). 2023-09-08. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  8. ^ "Hayao Miyazaki recibirá el Premio Donostia de forma virtual". deia.eus (in European Spanish). 2023-09-08. Retrieved 2023-09-09.

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