IFFI Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award

The IFFI Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award (formerly IFFI Lifetime Achievement Award) is an international honor instituted by the International Film Festival of India. The recipient is honored for their "outstanding contribution to the growth and development of World cinema.^[1]

IFFI Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award
International honor for contributions to World cinema
Awarded for	"Outstanding contribution to the growth and development of World cinema"
Sponsored by	International Film Festival of India
Formerly called	IFFI Lifetime Achievement Award
First award	1999; 26 years ago (1999)
Final award	2024
Most recent winner	Phillip Noyce
Highlights
First winner	Bernardo Bertolucci

Background

The award was first instituted in the year 1999 from the 30th IFFI.^[2] During the 52nd edition in 2021, on the occasion of the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray, the Directorate of Film Festivals in recognition of the auteur’s legacy, "The IFFI Lifetime Achievement award" was rechristened to "IFFI - Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award".^[3]

Phillip Noyce, a film and television director from Australia was the recipient of the award in the 2024.^[4]

Recipients

Erstwhile Lifetime Achievement Award (1999–2020)

Edition	Awardee	Nationality	Craft
30th	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italian	Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
34th	Liv Ullmann	Norwegian	Film director, and actress
38th	Dilip Kumar	Indian	Actor
	Lata Mangeshkar	Indian	Singer
42nd	Bertrand Tavernier	French	Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
43rd	Krzysztof Zanussi	Polish	Film director, producer, and screenwriter
44th	Jiří Menzel	Czech	Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
45th	Wong Kar-wai	Hong Kong	Film director, producer, screenwriter
46th	Nikita Mikhalkov	Russian	Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
47th	Im Kwon-taek	South Korean	Film director
48th	Atom Egoyan	Canadian	Film director
49th	Dan Wolman	Israeli / Palestinian	Film director
50th	Isabelle Huppert	French	Actress
51st	Vittorio Storaro	Italian	Cinematographer

Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award (since 2021)

Edition	Awardee	Nationality	Craft
52nd	Martin Scorsese	American	Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
	István Szabó	Hungarian	Film director
53rd	Carlos Saura	Spanish	Film director, producer, photographer, and actor
54th	Michael Douglas	American	Film director, producer and Actor
55th	Phillip Noyce	Australia	Film and television director