Sitges Film Festival
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| Sitges Film Festival | |
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| Location | Sitges, Catalonia, Spain |
| Language | International |
| sitgesfilmfestival.com/eng/ | |
The Sitges Film Festival (Catalan: Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya) is a Spanish film festival that is one of the most recognizable ones held in Europe, considered the world's foremost international festival specializing in fantasy and horror movies. Established in 1967, the festival normally takes place every year in early October in the Catalonian coastal town of Sitges, located about 34 kilometers West-southwest from Barcelona.
Awards
Since 1971 the festival has given awards to the best films, actors, and filmmakers.
The "Maria" award winners are the main awards of the festival and are chosen by an international jury. Currently, they are:
- Best Motion Picture
- Best Director
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Screenplay
- Best Cinematography
- Best Original Score
- Best Short Film
- Best Makeup Effects
- Best Production Design
The festival also presents:
- The Infinia Award for Best Special Effects
- The Noves Visions Award
- The Carnet Jove Jury Award
- An Award for the Best New Director
- The "Gertie" Awards for Best Animated Short and Feature Film.
- The Grand Audience Award (Gran Premi del Públic), which is awarded according to the votes of the festival's spectators.
- The Midnight X-Treme Award, which is given to the best motion picture from the special screenings (and is chosen by the Carnet Jove Jury).
Winners
| Year | Best Film | Best Director | Best Actor | Best Actress |
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| 1971 | Janusz Majewski (Lokis) and Michael Skaife (Necrophagus) | Vincent Price (The Abominable Dr. Phibes) | Yoon Yeo-jeong (Fire Woman) | |
| 1972 | The Cremator | Robert Mulligan (The Other) | Rudolf Hrusinsky (The Cremator) | Geraldine Chaplin (Zero Population Growth) |
| 1973 | Juan Luis Buñuel (Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse) | Eugene Levy (Cannibal Girls) | Andrea Martin (Cannibal Girls) | |
| 1974 | Robert Fuest (Dr. Phibes Rises Again) | Mark Burns (House of the Living Dead) | Cristina Galbó (No profanar el sueño de los muertos) | |
| 1975 | David Cronenberg (Shivers) | Paul Naschy (La Maldicion de la Bestia) | Lana Turner (Persecution) | |
| 1976 | Dario Argento (Profondo Rosso) | Peter Cushing (The Ghoul) | Brenda Vaccaro (Death Weekend) | |
| 1977 | Dan Curtis (Burnt Offerings) | Burgess Meredith (Burnt Offerings) | Karen Black (Burnt Offerings) | |
| 1978 | Richard Franklin (Patrick) | John Hargreaves (Long Weekend) | Camille Keaton (Day of the Woman) | |
| 1979 | Juraj Herz (Panna a netvor) | Gerhard Olschewski (Der Mörder) | Lisa Pelikan (Jennifer) | |
| 1980 | Veljko Bulajic (The Man to Destroy) | Nicholas Worth (Don't Answer the Phone!) | Cyd Hayman (The Godsend) | |
| 1981 | Walerian Borowczyk (Docteur Jekyll et les femmes) | Mircea Bogdan (Povestea dragostei) | Linda Haynes (Human Experiments) | |
| 1982 | Tony Williams (Next of Kin) | Richard Chamberlain (The Last Wave) | Annie McEnroe (Warlords of the 21st Century | |
| 1983 | Luc Besson (Le Dernier Combat) | Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Carradine (House of the Long Shadows) | Elizabeth Ward (Alone in the Dark) | |
| 1984 | The Company of Wolves | Carl Schenkel (Abwärts) | Joe Morton (The Brother from Outer Space) | Amy Madigan (Streets of Fire) |
| 1985[1] | Re-Animator | Shuji Terayama (Saraba Hakobune) | John Walcutt (Return) | Lori Cardille (Day of the Dead) |
| 1986 | Blue Velvet | Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze (The Legend of the Suram Fortress) | Juanjo Puigcorvé (Més enllà de la passió) | Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2) |
| 1987 | Hol Volt, Hol Nem Volt | |||
| 1988 | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | |||
| 1989 | Heart of Midnight | |||
| 1990 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | |||
| 1991 | Europa | |||
| 1992 | C'est arrivé près de chez vous | |||
| 1993 | Orlando | |||
| 1994 | 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls | |||
| 1995 | Citizen X | |||
| 1996 | The Pillow Book | |||
| 1997 | Gattaca | |||
| 1998 | Cube | |||
| 1999 | Ringu | |||
| 2000 | Ed Gein | Geoffrey Wright (Cherry Falls) | Steve Railsback (Ed Gein) | |
| 2001 | Vidocq | Brad Anderson (Session 9) | Eduard Fernández (Fausto 5.0) | Yuki Amami (Inugami) |
| 2002 | Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary | David Cronenberg (Spider) | Jeremy Northam (Cypher) | Angela Bettis (May) |
| 2003 | Zatōichi | Alexandre Aja (High Tension) | Robert Downey Jr. (The Singing Detective) | Cécile de France (High Tension) |
| 2004 | Oldboy | Johnnie To (Breaking News) | Christian Bale (The Maquinist) | Mónica López (El Habitante Incierto) |
| 2005 | Hard Candy | |||
| 2006 | Requiem | Martin Weisz (Grimm Love) | Thomas Kretschmann, Thomas Huber (Grimm Love) | Sandra Hüller (Requiem) |
| 2007 | The Fall | |||
| 2008 | Surveillance | |||
| 2009 | Moon | |||
| 2010 | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | |||
| 2011 | Red State | |||
| 2012 | Holy Motors | Léos Carax (Holy Motors) | Vincent D’Onofrio (Chained) | Alice Lowe (Sightseers) |
| 2013 | Borgman | Navot Papushado, Aharon Keshales (Big Bad Wolves) | Andy Lau (Blind Detective) | Juno Temple (Magic Magic) |
Notable attendees
Among the most relevant attendees of recent Festival de Sitges are
- Anthony Hopkins
- Quentin Tarantino
- Dino De Laurentiis
- Isabelle Fuhrman
- Ralph Fiennes
- David Lynch
- Sam Raimi
- Terry Gilliam
- Vin Diesel
- Tobe Hooper
- Tony Curtis
- Malcolm McDowell
- David Cronenberg
- Ray Liotta
- Jason Patric
- Peter Greenaway
- Chan-wook Park
- Guillermo del Toro
- Martin Sheen
- Stan Winston
- Rob Cohen
- Ray Harryhausen
- Rutger Hauer
- Takashi Miike
- Douglas Trumbull
- Fay Wray
- Jeroen Krabbé
- Tadanobu Asano
- Dario Argento
- Rob Bowman
- Guy Maddin
- Ben Gazzara
- Eli Roth
- Johnnie To
- Hideo Nakata
- Charles Parello
See also
Other genre film festivals
- Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film
- Dead by Dawn
- European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation
- Fantasia Festival
- Fantastic Fest
- International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival
- New York City Horror Film Festival
- Toronto After Dark Film Festival
- TromaDance
References
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