Golden Shell

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title: "Golden Shell" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["san-sebastián-international-film-festival", "spanish-film-awards", "lists-of-films-by-award", "international-film-awards", "awards-established-in-1957"] description: "Best Film award at San Sebastián Film Festival" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shell" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Best Film award at San Sebastián Film Festival ::

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The Golden Shell (; ) is the highest prize given to a competing film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was introduced in 1957. In 1953 and 1954, the highest prize had been called the Gran Premio. In 1955 and 1956 it was replaced by the Silver Shell. Six directors have won the Golden Shell twice: American director Francis Ford Coppola (in 1969 & 1984), Spanish director Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (in 1982 & 1986), Mexican director Arturo Ripstein (in 1993 & 2000), Spanish director Imanol Uribe (in 1994 & 1996), Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (in 2004 & 2006), and Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta (in 2011 & 2018).

Winners

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Year	English title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
I Was a Parish Priest	La Guerra de Dios	Rafael Gil	Spain Spain
Cursed Mountain	Sierra maldita	Antonio del Amo
Days of Love	Giorni d'amore	Giuseppe de Santis	Italy
The Railroad Man	Il ferroviere	Pietro Germi
Oh! Sabella	La nonna Sabella	Dino Risi
Eve Wants to Sleep	Ewa chce spać	Tadeusz Chmielewski	Poland
The Nun's Story	Fred Zinnemann
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness	Romeo, Julie a tma	Jiri Weiss	Czechoslovakia
One-Eyed Jacks	Marlon Brando
Arturo's Island	L'isola di Arturo	Damiano Damiani
Mafioso	Alberto Lattuada
America, America	Elia Kazan
Golden Queen	Zlatá reneta	Otakar Vávra	Czechoslovakia
Mirage	Edward Dmytryk
I Was Happy Here	Desmond Davis
Two for the Road	Stanley Donen
The Long Day's Dying	Peter Collinson
The Rain People	Francis Ford Coppola
Dead of Summer	Ondata di calore	Nelo Risi
Claire's Knee	Le Genou de Claire	Eric Rohmer
The Glass House	Tom Gries
The Spirit of the Beehive	El espíritu de la colmena	Víctor Erice	Spain Spain
Badlands	Terrence Malick
Poachers	Furtivos	José Luis Borau	Spain Spain
Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven	Табор уходит в небо	Emil Loteanu
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano	Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино	Nikita Mikhalkov
Alambrista!	Robert M. Young
Autumn Marathon	Осенний марафон	Georgi Daneliya
The Orchestra Conductor	Dyrygent	Andrzej Wajda	Poland
Tales of Ordinary Madness	Storie di ordinaria follia	Marco Ferreri
Demons in the Garden	Demonios en el jardín	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	Spain
Entre Nous	Diane Kurys
Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola
Yesterday	Radosław Piwowarski	Poland
Half of Heaven	La mitad del cielo	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	Spain
Wedding in Galilee	عرس الجليل	Michel Khleifi	Belgium
On the Black Hill	Andrew Grieve
Homer and Eddie	Andrei Konchalovski
La nación clandestina	Jorge Sanjinés	Bolivia
Letters from Alou	Las cartas de Alou	Montxo Armendáriz	Spain
Butterfly Wings	Alas de mariposa	Juanma Bajo Ulloa
A Place in the World	Un lugar en el mundo	Adolfo Aristarain	Argentina
The Beginning and the End	Principio y fin	Arturo Ripstein	Mexico
Sara	سارا	Dariush Mehrjui	Iran
Días contados	Imanol Uribe	Spain
Margaret's Museum	Mort Ransen	Canada
Bwana	Imanol Uribe	Spain
Trojan Eddie	Gillies MacKinnon	Ireland
The Swindle	Rien ne va plus	Claude Chabrol
Wind with the Gone	El viento se llevó lo qué	Alejandro Agresti	Argentina FRA
Netherlands Spain
C'est quoi la vie?	François Dupeyron
The Ruination of Men	La perdición de los hombres	Arturo Ripstein	Mexico Spain
A Cab for Three	Taxi para tres	Orlando Lübbert	Chile
Mondays in the Sun	Los lunes al sol	Fernando León de Aranoa	Spain
Gun-shy	Schussangst	Dito Tsintsadze	Germany
Turtles Can Fly	کیسەڵەکانیش دەفڕن	Bahman Ghobadi	Iran Iraq
Something Like Happiness	Štěstí	Bohdan Sláma	Czech Republic
Half Moon	نیوەمانگ	Bahman Ghobadi	Iran
Mon fils à moi	Martial Fougeron
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers	Wayne Wang
Pandora's Box	Pandora'nın Kutusu	Yeşim Ustaoğlu	Turkey
City of Life and Death	南京！南京！	Lu Chuan	China
Neds	Peter Mullan
ITA
Los pasos dobles	Isaki Lacuesta	CHE
In the House	Dans la maison	François Ozon	FRA
Bad Hair	Pelo malo	Mariana Rondón	VEN PER GER
Magical Girl	Carlos Vermut	ESP
Sparrows	Þrestir	Rúnar Rúnarsson	DEN ISL
I Am Not Madame Bovary	我不是潘金莲	Feng Xiaogang	China
The Disaster Artist	James Franco	USA
Between Two Waters	Entre dos Aguas	Isaki Lacuesta	ESP
Pacified	Pacificado	Paxton Winters	BRA
Beginning	დასაწყისი	Déa Kulumbegashvili	GEO
Blue Moon	Crai Nou	Alina Grigore	ROU
The Kings of the World	Los reyes del mundo	Laura Mora	COL
The Rye Horn	O corno	Jaione Camborda
Afternoons of Solitude	Tardes de soledad	Albert Serra
Sundays	Los domingos	Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
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Notes

References

References

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