San sebastian awards winners since 1953
1953
La Guerra de Dios by Rafael Gil
Spain
1954
Sierra maldita by Antonio del Amo
Spain
1955
Giorni d'amore by Giuseppe de Santis
Italy
1956
Il ferroviere by Pietro Germi
Italy
1957
Oh! Sabella (La nonna Sabella) by Dino Risi
Italy
1958
Le coeur au poing by Charles Binamé
France
1959
The Nun's Story by Fred Zinnemann
United States
1960
Romeo, Juliet a Tma by Jiri Weiss
Czechoslovakia
1961
One-Eyed Jacks by Marlon Brando
United States
1962
Arturo's Island (L’isola di Arturo) by Damiano Damiani
Italy
1963
Mafioso by Alberto Lattuada
Italy
1964
America, America by Elia Kazan
United States
1965
Mirage by Edward Dmytryk
United States
Golden Queen (Zlatá reneta)
by Otakar Vávra
Czechoslovakia
1966
I Was Happy Here by Desmond Davis
United Kingdom
1967
Two for the Road byStanley Donen
United States
1968
The Long Day’s Dying by Peter Collinson
United Kingdom
1969
The Rain People by Francis Ford Coppola
United States
1970
Dead of Summer (Ondata di calore) by Nelo Risi
Italy
1971
Claire's Knee (Le genou de Claire) by Eric Rohmer
France
1972
The Glass House by Tom Gries
United States
1973
The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) by Víctor Erice
Spain
1974
Badlands by Terrence Malick
United States
1975
Poachers (Furtivos) by José Luis Borau
Spain
1976
Queen of the Gypsies (Tabor ujodit v niebo) by Emil Loteanu
USSR
1977
An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano (Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino) by Nikita Mikhalkov
USSR
1978
The Illegal (Alambrista!) by Robert M. Young
United States
1979
Autumn Marathon (Ossenij marafon) by Georgi Daneliya
USSR
1980
Dyrygent by Andrzej Wajda
Poland
1981
Storie di ordinaria follia by Marco Ferreri
Italy
1982
Demons in the Garden (Demonios en el jardín) by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Spain
1983
Between Us (Coup de foudre) by Diane Kurys
France
1984
Rumble Fish by
Francis Ford Coppola
United States
1985
Yesterday by Radoslaw Piwowarski
Poland
1986
Half of Heaven (La mitad del cielo) by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Spain
1987
Wedding in Galilee (Urs al-jalil) by Michel Khleifi
Palestine-France-Belgium
1988
On the Black Hill by Andrew Grieve
United Kingdom
1989
Homer and Eddie by Andrei Konchalovski
United States
La nación clandestina (ex aequo) by Jorge Sanjinés
Bolivia
1990
Letters from Alou (Las cartas de Alou) by Montxo Armendáriz
Spain
1991
Butterfly Wings (Alas de Mariposa) by Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Spain
1992
A Place in the World (Un lugar en el mundo) by Adolfo Aristarain
Argentina
1993
The Beginning and the End (Principio y fin) by Arturo Ripstein
Mexico
Sara by Dariush Mehrjui
Iran
1994
Running Out of Time (Días contados)
Imanol Uribe
Spain
1995
Margaret's Museum by Mort Ransen
Canada-United Kingdom
1996
Bwana by Imanol Uribe
Spain
Trojan Eddie (ex aequo) by Gillies Mackinnon
Ireland
1997
The Swindle (Rien ne va plus) by Claude Chabrol
France
1998
Wind with the Gone (El viento se llevó lo qué) by Alejandro Agresti
Argentina-Netherlands-Spain-France
1999
What's Life? (C'est quoi la vie?) by François Dupeyron
France
2000
The Ruination of Men (La perdición de los hombres) by Arturo Ripstein
Mexico-Spain
2001
A Cab for Three (Taxi para tres) by Orlando Lübbert
Chile
2002
Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol) by Fernando León de Aranoa
Spain-France-Italy
2003
Gun-shy (Schussangst) by Dito Tsintsadze
Germany
2004
Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand) by Bahman Ghobadi
Iran-Irak
2005
Something Like Happiness (Štěstí) by Bohdan Sláma
Czech Republic
2006
Half Moon (Niwemang) by Bahman Ghobadi
Iran
Mon fils à moi (ex aequo) by Martial Fougeron
France
2007
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Wayne Wang
United States
2008
Pandora's Box (Pandoranin kutusu) by Yesim Ustaoglu
Turkey-France-Germany-Belgium
2009
City of Life and Death (Nánjīng! Nánjīng!) by Lu Chuan
China
