Silver Shell for Best Director

The Silver Shell for Best Director (Spanish: Concha de Plata al Mejor Director; Basque: Zuzendari Onenaren Zilarrezko Maskorra) is one of the main awards presented at the San Sebastián Film Festival to the director of a competing film.^[1][2][3]

Silver Shell for Best Director
The 2025 recipient: Joachim Lafosse
Awarded for	Best direction
Country	Spain
Presented by	San Sebastián International Film Festival
First award	1953
Currently held by	Joachim Lafosse for Six Days in Spring
Website	sansebastianfestival.com

Winners

Year	English title	Original Title	Director(s)
1953	I Was a Parish Priest	La guerra de Dios	Rafael Gil
1954	La patrulla		Pedro Lazaga
1956	The Railroad Man	Il ferroviere	Pietro Germi
1957	Vintage Car	Dědeček automobil	Alfréd Radok
	Ich suche Dich		O. W. Fischer
1958	Vertigo		Alfred Hitchcock
1959	North by Northwest
	Dagli Appennini alle Ande		Folco Quilici
1960	The Fugitive Kind		Sidney Lumet
1961	The Mishap	L'imprevisto	Alberto Lattuada
1962	Careless	Senilità	Mauro Bolognini
1963	In the Midst of Life	Au coeur de la vie	Robert Enrico
1964	Aunt Tula	La Tía Tula	Miguel Picazo
1965	Casanova 70		Mario Monicelli
1966	Madamigella di Maupin		Mauro Bolognini
1967	Jowita		Janusz Morgenstern
1968	The Long Day's Dying		Peter Collinson
1977	Maiden's War		Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel
1978	Sleepwalkers	Sonámbulos	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
1979	Angi Vera		Pál Gábor
1984	Notre mariage		Valeria Sarmiento
1985	The City and the Dogs	La ciudad y los perros	Francisco Lombardi
1986	Welcome in Vienna		Axel Corti
1987	Crazy Love		Dominique Deruddere
1988	Rowing with the Wind	Remando al viento	Gonzalo Suárez
1989	Konsul		Mirosław Bork
1990	Miller's Crossing		Joel Coen
1991	Highway 61[4]		Bruce McDonald
1992	Tito and Me	Tito i ja	Goran Markovic
1993	Lost in Transit	Tombés du ciel	Philippe Lioret
1994	Shallow Grave		Danny Boyle
1995	Leaving Las Vegas		Mike Figgis
1996	Bajo la piel		Francisco José Lombardi
1997	The Swindle	Rien ne va plus	Claude Chabrol
1998	Barrio		Fernando León de Aranoa
1999	Shower	洗澡	Zhang Yang
	Sachs' Disease	La Maladie de Sachs	Michel Deville
2000	Before the Storm	Före Stormen	Reza Parsa
2001	C'est la vie		Jean-Pierre Améris
2002	Together	和你在一起	Chen Kaige
2003	Memories of Murder	살인의 추억	Bong Joon-ho
2004	Letter from an Unknown Woman	一個陌生女人的來信	Xu Jinglei
2005	Sunflower	向日葵	Zhang Yang
2006	Delirious		Tom DiCillo
2007	Battle for Haditha		Nick Broomfield
2008	Genova		Michael Winterbottom
2009	Woman Without Piano	La mujer sin piano	Javier Rebollo
2010	Mysteries of Lisbon	Mistérios de Lisboa	Raúl Ruiz
2011	Unfair World	Adikos Kosmos	Filippos Tsitos
2012	The Artist and the Model	El artista y la modelo	Fernando Trueba
2013	Club Sandwich	Club Sándwich	Fernando Eimbcke
2014	Magical Girl		Carlos Vermut
2015	The White Knights	Les Chevaliers Blancs	Joachim Lafosse
2016	Yourself and Yours	당신자신과 당신의 것	Hong Sang-soo
2017	Alanis		Anahí Berneri
2018	Rojo		Benjamín Naishtat
2019	The Endless Trench[5]	La Trinchera Infinita	Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga
2020	Beginning[6]	დასაწყისი	Déa Kulumbegashvili
2021	As in Heaven[7]	Du Som Er I Himlen	Tea Lindeburg
2022	A Hundred Flowers[8]		Genki Kawamura
2025	Six Days in Spring[9]	Six jours ce printemps-là	Joachim Lafosse

See also

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