Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion

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The Silver Medallion is an award given by the Telluride Film Festival in recognition of achievements in the film industry.

[edit] History of the Silver Medallion

The first Silver Medallions were awarded in 1974 at the 1st Telluride Film Festival. They are made of pure silver and the design has never changed, featuring the emblematic "SHOW" logo on their face. The presentation of the medallion is preceded by a clip reel, full feature and/or on stage interview. Traditionally, three Silver Medallions are given out each year, with a few exceptions where numerous people from a specific category were paid the honor. Since 1995, a fourth Silver Medallions has been awarded to a hero of cinema, a filmmaker, historian, critic or organization dedicated to the celebration and preservation of film as an art.

[edit] Honorees

1. 1974 - Gloria Swanson, Francis Ford Coppola, Leni Riefenstahl
2. 1975 - Henry King, Werner Herzog, Jack Nicholson
3. 1976 - Chuck Jones, King Kong, King Vidor
4. 1977 - Michael Powell, Agnes Varda, Benjamin Carré
5. 1978 - Hal Roach, Sterling Hayden, Czech New Wave (Jaromil Jires, Pavel Juráček, Jan Nemec and Ivan Passer)
6. 1979 - Abel Gance, Robert Wise, Klaus Kinski
7. 1980 - Robert Altman, Maurice Pialat, Karl Struss
8. 1981 - The Character Actor (John Carradine, Elisha Cook, Jr., Margaret Hamilton and Woody Strode), Carlos Diegues, Dusan Makavejev
9. 1982 - Joel McCrea, Pierre Braunberger, Athol Fugard
10. 1983 - Luis Trenker, Andrei Tarkovsky, Richard Widmark
11. 1984 - Henry Hathaway, Andrzej Wajda, Janet Leigh
12. 1985 - Emilio Fernandez, Hanna Schygulla, Alexander Trauner
13. 1986 - Alexander Mackendrick, Jiri Menzel, Isabelle Huppert
14. 1987 - Don Siegel, Stephen Frears, Tenghiz Abuladze
15. 1988 - Pedro Almodovar, Cab Calloway, The Xi'an Studio
16. 1989 - Peter Greenaway, Dennis Potter, Shohei Imamura
17. 1990 - Gerard Depardieu, John Berry, Clint Eastwood
18. 1991 - Nature's Filmmakers (Peter Jones, Marion Zunz and Paul Atkins), Jodie Foster, Sven Nykvist
19. 1992 - Elmer Bernstein, Cy Endfield, Harvey Keitel
20. 1993 - Ken Loach, John Alton, Jennifer Jason Leigh
21. 1994 - Judy Davis, Ken Burns, Harriet Anderson
22. 1995 - John Schlesinger, Zhang Yimou, The Surrealists (Jan Švankmajer, Guy Maddin and Brothers Quay), Andrew Sarris
23. 1996 - Shirley MacLaine, Mike Leigh, Alain Cavalier, Roger Meyer
24. 1997 - Horton Foote, Neil Jordan, Alexander Sokurov, Milos Stehlik
25. 1998 - Meryl Streep, Vittorio Storaro, Susumu Hani, Stanley Kauffmann
26. 1999 - Catherine Deneuve, David Lynch, Philip Glass, ARENA
27. 2000 - Ang Lee, Stellan Skarsgård, Im Kwon Taek, Serge Silberman
28. 2001 - Catherine Breillat, Om Puri, Ken Russell, HBO
29. 2002 - Peter O'Toole, Paul Schrader, D.A. Pennebaker, Positif
30. 2003 - Peter Brook, Toni Collette, Krzysztof Zanussi, Ted Turner
31. 2004 - Laura Linney, Jean-Claude Carrière, Theo Angelopoulos, Fred Roos
32. 2005 - Mickey Rooney, The Dardennes, Charlotte Rampling, Criterion Collection & Janus Films
33. 2006 - Walter Murch, Penélope Cruz, Rolf de Heer, David Thomson
34. 2007 - Daniel Day-Lewis, Michel Legrand, Shyam Benegal, Leonard Maltin