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Oct 27, 2008
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A look back at some Fantasporto prestigious winners

They have been awarded by the International Jury:

Official Fantasy Section



"The Redeemer" by Kristo Papic (82)

"Scanners" by David Cronenberg (83)

"Le Dernier Combat" by Luc Besson (84)

"The Company of Wolves" by Neil Jordan (85)

"Fuego Eterno" by Jose Angel Rebolledo (86)

"Defense of the Realm" by David Drury (87)

"A Chinese Ghost Story" by Chin Siu Tung (88)

"Monkey Shines" by George Romero (89)

"Black Rainbow" by Mike Hodges (90)

"Henry" by John McNaughton (91)

"Toto, L´Heros" by Jaco van Dormael (92)

"Braindead" by Peter Jackson (93)

"Cronos" by Guillermo del Toro (94)

"Shallow Grave" by Danny Boyle (95)

"Seven" by David Fincher (96)

"Bound - Sem limites" by Waschowski Brothers (97)

"Retroactive" by Louis Morneau (98)

"Cube" by Vincenzo Natali (99)

"Siam Sunset" by John Polson (2000)

"Amores Perros" by Alejandro Gonzalez (2001)

"Fausto 5.0" by Los Fura del Baus (2002)

"Intacto" by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (2003)

"A Tale of Two Sisters" by Kin Jee Woon (2004)

"Nothing" by Vincenzo Natali (2005)

"Frostbitten" by Anders Banke (2006)

"El Laberinto del Fauno" by Guillermo del Toro (2007)

“Rec” by Jaume Balagueró e Paco Plaza (2008)



Directors Week Awarded



"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" by Tom Stoppard (91)

"Three Days" by Sharunas Barta (92)

"Swoon" by Tom Kalin (93)

"Bodies, Rest & Motion" by Michael Steinberg (94)

"Clean, Shaven" by Lodge Kerrigan (95)

"Madagascar Skin",by Chris Newby e "Two on a Couch", by Amir Rezazadeh, Ex-Aequo (96)

"Unhook The Stars" by Nick Cassavetes, (97)

"Character" by Mike van Diem(98)

"Happiness" by Todd Solondz (99)

"East is East"de Damien O?Donnell (2000)

"Purely Belter" by Mark Herman (2001)

"Bloody Sunday" by Paul Greengrass (2002)

"L.I.E. by Michael Cuesta (2003)

"The Green Butchers" by Anders Thomas Jensen (2004)

"Old Boy" by Chan Wook Park (2005)

"Adams Apples" by Anders Thomas Jensen (2006)

"Un Franco, 14 Pesetas" by Carlos Iglésias (2007)

“Opium, Diary of a Madwoman” by Janos Szasz (2008)



Also Awarded



Eusébio Poncela in "Arrebato" (82)

Fabian Sovagovic in "O Ritmo do Crime" (83)

Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing e John Carradine in

"The House of the Long Shadows" (84)

John Hurt in "1984" and Eddy Michell in "Frankenstein 90" (85)

Ian Holm in "Dreamchild" (86)

Gabriel Byrne in "Defense of the Realm" and "Gothic" (87)

Jim Van der Wunde in "The Pointsman" (88)

Jeromy Irons in "Dead Ringers" (89)

Bernard Pierre Donnadieu in "The Vanishing" (90)

Michael Rooker in "Henry" (91)

Jeff Daniels in "Timescape" (92)

Hervey Keitel in "Bad Lieutenant" (93)

Frederico Luppi in "Cronos" (94)

Karra Elejalde in "La Madre Muerta"(95)

Rupert Everett in "Dellamorte Dell?Amore"(96)

Juan Inciarte in "Solo Se Muere Dos Veces"(97)

Nancho Novo in "Dame Algo"(98)

Kevin McKidd an Gary Mc Cormack in "The Acid House" (99)

Thomas Fisher (The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz) and Konstantin Prochorowski (Holgi) (2000)

William Dafoe in "The Shadow of The Vampire" (2001)

Eduard Fernandez, Miguel Angel Solá in Fausto 5.0 (2002)

Jeremy Northam in "Cypher" (2003)

Dario Grandinetti in "Killing Words" (2004)

Bong Joon-Ho by "The Host" (2007)

Jens Lien by "The Bothersomme Man" (2007)

Gyorgy Palfi by "Taxidermia" (2007)

Satoshi Kon by "Paprika" (2007)

“El Orfanato” by Juan Antonio Bayona (2008)

“Rojo Red” by Juan Manuel Betancourt (2008)

“You, The Living” by Roy Andersson (2008)



Other Awards



Bigas Luna, Best Direction by "Caniche"

"Britannia Hospital" by Lindsay Anderson, Audience Award

"Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky, Critcs Award

"The Draughtsman´s Contract" by Peter Greenaway, Audience Award

"Necrofilia" by Victor Silva , Best Short

Lars von Trier, Best Direction bt "The Element of the Crime"

"Blood Simple" by Joel and Ethan Coen, Audience Award

Pedro Almodovar, Best Direction by "Matador"

Jack Sholder, Best Direction by "The Hidden"

"The Navigator" by Vincent Ward, Audience Award

"It´s Hard to be a God" by Peter Fleishman, Audience Award

"Delicatessen" by Jeunet e Caro, Audience Award

"Poison" by Tod Haynes, Critics Award

"Army of Darkness" by Sam Raimi, Critics Award

"The Forbidden Quest" by Peter Delpeuth, Special Jury Award

"The Ellementary School" by Jan Sverak, Special Mention

"Loaded" by Anna Campion, Special mention

"Taxandria" by Raoul Servais and "Institute Benjamenta" by Quay Brothers em Ex-Aequo, Specxial Mention

Robert Tinnell, Best Direction by "Frankenstein And Me"

"Darklands" by Julian Richards, Best Screenplay

"The Killer Tongue" by Alberto Sciamma , Best Special effects

"L´Enchanteur" by Richard Wright , Best Short

"Sweet Angel Mine" by Curtis Radclyffe and "Darklands" by Julian Richards, Ex-Aequo, Special Jury Award

"Ghost In The Shell" by Mamoru Oshi, Special Mention

"Funny Games" by Michael Haneke, Critics and Special Jury Awards

"Fudoh" by Takashi Miike, Special Jury Award

Lars von Trier, Best Direction and Screenplay in "The Kingdom 2"

"Money, Mithology of Darkness" by Vassilis Mazomenos, Special Jury Award

"Sorum" by Yoon Jong Chang, Special Jury Award

"Cypher" by Vincenzo Natali Special Jury Award

"The Daytrippers" by Greg Mottola, Special Jury Award

Scott Hicks, Best Director by "Shine"

"The Daytrippers" by Greg Mottola, Best Screenplay

"The Empty Mirror" by Barry J. Herdhey, Best Cinematography

"Fintar o Destino" by Fernando Vendrell, Best Director

"Giro di Luna Tra Terra and Mare" by Giuseppe Gaudino, Special Juty Award (98)

"Junk Mail" by Pal Stetaune, Best Cinematography

"High Art" by Lisa Cholodenko, Jury Special Menbtion

"Quando Troveja" by Manuel Mozos, Special Jury Award

"Divorcing Jack" by David Caffrey, Best Screenplay

"Love is the Devil" by John Maybury, Best Cinematography

"The Criminal" by Julian Simpson, Best Director

"The Last Minute" by Stephen Norrington, Special Jury Award

"Historias del Desencanto" by Alejandro Valle, Special Jury Award - Official Fantasy Section 2007

"Sucidio Encomendado" by Artur Serra Araújo, Special Jury Award - 17th Director's Week

“The Lovebirds” by Bruno de Almeida, Special Jury Award - 18th Director's Week

“How to get Rid of Others” by Anders Ronnow Klarlund, Special Jury Award - Official Fantasy Section 2008



Méliès D'Argent



Features



"Darklands" by Julian Richards (97)

Jury Special Mention: "Mortinho por Chegar a Casa" by Carlos da Silva and Jorge Sluizer (97)

"Photographing Fairies" by Nick Willing (98)

Jury Special mention: "The Fifth Province" by Frank Stapleton (98)

"The Acid House" by Paul Mc Guigan (99)

"La Mujar Mas Fea del Mundo" by Miguel Bardem (2000)

"Vidocq" by Pitof (2002)

"28 Days Later" by Danny Boyle (2003)

"Palabras Encadenadas" by Laura Maña (2004)

"Les Revenants" by Robin Campillo (2005)

"Animal" by Roselyne Bosch (2006)

"Renaissance" by Christian Volkman (2007)

“La Habitacion de Fermat” by Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña (2008)



Shorts



"Venus Velvet" - Jorge Cramez (2002)

"Atraksion" - Raoul Servais (2003)

"I'll See You in My Dreams" by Filipe Melo (2004)

"La Derniére Minute" by Nicolas Salis (2005)

"La Leyenda del Espantapajaros" by Marc Besas (2006)

"Finkle's Odyssey" by Barney Vlay (2007)

“Ark” by Grzegorz Jonkajtys (2008)



Fantásia



"Fudoh" by Takashi Miike, Best Film (98)

"Perfect Blue" by Satoshi Kon, Best Animated Film (98)

"The Quiet Family" by Kim Ji-Woon, Best Film (99)

"Jin-Roh" by Hiroyuko Okiura, Best Animated FIlm (99)



Orient Express



"A Tale of Two Sisters" by Kim Jee Woon, Best Film (2004)

"Acacia" by Park Ki-hyeong, Special Jury Award (2004)

"My Mother the Mermaid" by Heung-Shik Park, Best Film (2005)

"Vital" by Shynia Tsukamoto: Special Jury Award (2005)

"Sympathy for Lady vengeance" by Chan Wook Park (2006)

"The Bow" by Kim Ki Duk, Special Jury Award (2006)

"Isabella" by Ho Cheung Pang (2007)

“Triangle” by Johnnie To, Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam (2008)



Some Fantas Retrospectives:



100 years of British Cinema

100 years of Monstors

Alejandro Jodorowski

Alex Cox

Alfred Hitchcock -100 Years

André Delvaux

Andrzej Zulawski

Animation Cinema/Zagreb School

Belgium Fantastic Cinema, Harry Kummel

Bertand Tavernier

Bigas Luna and Catalan Fantastic Cinema

Bill Plympton

Bollywood

Brian de Palma

British Fantastic Cinema

Canadian Cinema

Cinema and Cartoons

Danish Cinema

Dario Argento and Mário Bava

David Cronenberg

Drácula in Cinema

Dutch Cinema

Fantastic "Rock" Cinema

Fernando Lopes

Frankenstein in Cinema

French Animation Cinema

French Cinema Pioneers

French Romantic Cinema

French Short Fantasy Films

George Meliès

Gerges Franju

German Expressionist Cinema

Hungarian Cinema

Italian Horror Masters

Jacques Tourneur

Japanese Fantastic Cinema

Jean Claude Carrière

John Waters e Andy Wharol

Jorge Grau

Juan Luis Bunel

Julien Temple

Júlio Bressane

Karel Zehman

Leni Riefenstahl

Louis Feuillade

Luis Bunuel

Marcel Carné

Max Von Sydow

Michele Soavi

MK2 - Marin Karmitz

Monty Python

Mosfilm - The Russian Cinema

New Zealand Cinema

Orson Weslles

Oswaldo Caldeira

Pam Grier & Blaxploitation

Paul Nashy

Paul Verhoeven

Peter Cushing

Portuguese Fantastic Cinema

René Clair

René Laloux

RKO

Roman Porno

Seventies Fantastic Movie

Soviet Fantastic Cinema

Space 1999

Spanish Cinema

Spanish Fantastic Cinema

Stephen King

Takashi Miike

Terence Fisher

The Greek Cinema

Tobe Hooper

UrbanTerror

Vicente Aranda

Walt Disney

XXI Century Austrian Cinema

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