2007 San Sebastian Film Festival Awards
2007 San Sebastian Film Festival: Sept. 20-29, 2007
2007 San Sebastian Film Festival Winners
Official Selection
GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by WAYNE WANG (USA)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE: Buda az sharm foru rikht / Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame by HANA MAKHMALBAF (Iran-France)
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST DIRECTOR: NICK BROOMFIELD for Battle for Haditha (UK)
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTOR: HENRY O. for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (USA)
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTRESS: BLANCA PORTILLO for Siete mesas de billar francés / Seven Billiard Tables (Spain)
JURY PRIZE FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: CHARLIE LAM for Ceot oi kap gei / Exodus (Hong Kong)
JURY PRIZE FOR BEST SCREENPLAY (ex aequo): GRACIA QUEREJETA and DAVID PLANELL for Siete mesas de billar francés / Seven Billiard Tables (Spain) and JOHN SAYLES for Honeydripper (USA)
DONOSTIA PRIZE: Liv Ullmann, Richard Gere
ALTADIS NEW DIRECTORS AWARD: Soul Carriage (China-UK) by Conrad Clark
HORIZONTES AWARD: El baño del Papa, by Enrique Fernández and César Charlone (Uruguay-Brazil-France)
SPECIAL MENTIONS: Párpados azules (Mexico) by Ernesto Contreras, and Satanás (Colombia) by Andrés Baiz, for the excellent performance of Marcela Mar in the part of Paola.
TCM-AUDIENCE AWARD: Caramel by Nadine Labaki (Lebanon-France)
RUNNER-UP: Le Scaphandre et le papillon / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel (France)
YOUTH AWARD: Caramel by Nadine Labaki (Lebanon-France)
PANAVISION (FILM SCHOOL) AWARD: Vita de Giacomo by Luca Governatori (France)
SPECIAL MENTIONS: Idioma by Ian Menoyot (Belgium); De las relaciones by Jorge Acebo (Spain); La Invención by Andrés García Franco (Mexico)
FIPRESCI Film of the Year: 4 Luni, 3 Saptamini si 2 Zile / 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu
FIPRESCI AWARD: Encarnación, Anahí Berneri (Argentina)
SIGNIS AWARD: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Wayne Wang (USA)
SPECIAL MENTION: Battle for Haditha, Nick Broomfield (UK)
CICAE AWARD: Brick Lane, Sarah Gavron (UK)
CEC AWARD: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Wayne Wang ( USA)
GUIPUZCOAN BLOOD-DONORS' ASSOCIATION CORRESPONDING TO THE SOLIDARITY AWARD: JAKOB BRONSKI, the leading character played by Max von Sydow in Emotional Arithmetic, by Paolo Barzman (Canada)
SEBASTIANE AWARD: Caramel by Nadine Labaki (Lebanon-France)
Film in Progress Awards
SIGNIS AWARD: La Extranjera by Fernando Díaz (Argentina)
CICAE AWARD: Gasolina by Julio Hernández Cordón (Guatemala)
FILMS IN PROGRESS INDUSTRY AWARD: Gasolina by Julio Hernández Cordón (Guatemala)
TVE AWARD: Acné by Federico Veiroj (Uruguay-Argentina-Spain-Mexico) and Sol na Neblina by Werner Schumann (Brazil)
CINEMA IN MOTION AWARDS: Salt of this Sea by Annamarie Jacir (France, U.S., Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, U.K.) and Recycle by Mahmoud Al Massad (Jordan)
Official Selection Jury: PAUL AUSTER Chairman, PERNILLA AUGUST, NICOLETTA BRASCHI, BAHMAN GHOBADI, EDUARDO NORIEGA, SUSÚ PECORARO, PETER WEBBER
New Directors Jury: MARK PEPLOE Chairman, JANNIKE ÅHLUND, CARMEN CASTILLO, ESPIDO FREIRE, JEAN-CLAUDE LAMY, DENNIS LIM, PABLO MALO
Horizontes Jury: KARL BAUMGARTNERE, INGRID RUBIO, IVÁN TRUJILLO
San Sebastian International Film Festival Site
