Donostia Award

The Donostia Award (Spanish: Premio Donostia; Basque: Donostia Saria) is an honorary award created in 1986 which is given every year to a number of actors and filmmakers in the San Sebastián International Film Festival.^[1] It derives its name from Donostia, the Basque name of San Sebastián.^[2]

Recipients

Year	Recipient[3]	Profession	Nationality	Notes
1986	Gregory Peck	Actor	United States
	Gene Tierney	Actress	United States	The award to Tierney was announced prior to the festival, but was not handed as Tierney did not eventually travel to San Sebastián.[4]
1987	Glenn Ford	Actor	Canada / United States
1988	Vittorio Gassman	Actor, filmmaker and screenwriter	Italy
1989	Bette Davis	Actress	United States
1990	Claudette Colbert	Actress	United States
1991	Anthony Perkins	Actor	United States
1992	Lauren Bacall	Actress	United States
1993	Robert Mitchum	Actor	United States
1994	Lana Turner	Actress	United States
1995	Susan Sarandon	Actress	United States
	Catherine Deneuve	Actress	France
1996	Al Pacino	Actor	United States
1997	Michael Douglas	Actor and producer	United States
	Jeremy Irons	Actor	United Kingdom
1998	Jeanne Moreau	Actress and filmmaker	France
	Anthony Hopkins	Actor, filmmaker and producer	United Kingdom
	John Malkovich	Actor	United States
1999	Anjelica Huston	Actress	United States
	Fernando Fernán Gómez	Actor, screenwriter and filmmaker	Spain
	Vanessa Redgrave	Actress	United Kingdom
2000	Michael Caine	Actor	United Kingdom
	Robert De Niro	Actor	United States
2001	Julie Andrews	Actress and singer	United Kingdom	The award was announced prior to the festival, but was not handed in person as Andrews cancelled her trip to San Sebastián in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.[5]
	Warren Beatty	Actor and filmmaker	United States	The award was announced prior to the festival, but was not handed in person as Beatty cancelled his trip to San Sebastián in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.[5]
	Francisco Rabal	Actor	Spain	Rabal died weeks before the festival, and the award was handed posthumously to his grandson Liberto Rabal [es].[6]
2002	Jessica Lange	Actress	United States
	Bob Hoskins	Actor and filmmaker	United Kingdom
	Dennis Hopper	Actor and filmmaker	United States
	Francis Ford Coppola	Filmmaker, producer and screenwriter	United States
2003	Robert Duvall	Actor and filmmaker	United States
	Sean Penn	Actor and filmmaker	United States
	Isabelle Huppert	Actress	France
2004	Annette Bening	Actress	United States
	Jeff Bridges	Actor	United States
	Woody Allen	Actor, filmmaker and screenwriter	United States
2005	Willem Dafoe	Actor	United States
	Ben Gazzara	Actor	United States
2006	Max von Sydow	Actor	Sweden / France
	Matt Dillon	Actor	United States
2007	Liv Ullmann	Actress and filmmaker	Norway
	Richard Gere	Actor	United States
2008	Meryl Streep	Actress	United States
	Antonio Banderas	Actor and filmmaker	Spain
2009	Ian McKellen	Actor	United Kingdom
2010	Julia Roberts	Actress	United States
2011	Glenn Close	Actress	United States
2002	Oliver Stone	Filmmaker, producer and screenwriter	United States
	Ewan McGregor	Actor	United Kingdom
	Tommy Lee Jones	Actor	United States
	John Travolta	Actor	United States
	Dustin Hoffman	Actor	United States
2013	Carmen Maura	Actress	Spain
	Hugh Jackman	Actor	Australia
2014	Denzel Washington	Actor, producer and filmmaker	United States
	Benicio del Toro	Actor	Puerto Rico
2015	Emily Watson	Actress	United Kingdom
2016	Sigourney Weaver	Actress	United States
	Ethan Hawke	Actor, filmmaker and screenwriter	United States
2017	Ricardo Darín	Actor and producer	Argentina
	Monica Bellucci	Actress	Italy
	Agnès Varda	Filmmaker, screenwriter and artist	France
2018	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor	Japan
	Danny DeVito	Actor and filmmaker	United States
	Judi Dench	Actress	United Kingdom
2019	Penélope Cruz	Actress	Spain
	Costa-Gavras	Filmmaker, producer and screenwriter	Greece / France
	Donald Sutherland	Actor	Canada
2020	Viggo Mortensen	Actor	United States / Denmark
2021	Johnny Depp	Actor	United States
	Marion Cotillard	Actress	France
2022	Juliette Binoche	Actress	France
	David Cronenberg	Filmmaker, screenwriter and actor	Canada
2023	Javier Bardem	Actor	Spain	The award to Bardem was announced for the 2023 edition, but the award event was later postponed for the 2024 edition due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.[7]
	Víctor Erice	Filmmaker and screenwriter	Spain
	Hayao Miyazaki	Animator and filmmaker	Japan	Miyazaki was handed the award virtually from Tokyo.[8]
2024	Cate Blanchett	Actress	Australia	[9]
	Pedro Almodóvar	Filmmaker and screenwriter	Spain	[10]
2025	Esther García	Producer	Spain	[11]

See also

• Golden Shell for Best Film
• Silver Shell for Best Director
• Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance
• Silver Shell for Best Actor
• Silver Shell for Best Actress
• Sebastiane Award

Notes