Best Direction Award (Locarno International Film Festival)
The Best Direction Award is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival. It is awarded to the best directed film in the international competition section.
Award Winners
| Year | Film | Director | Country of production |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | And Then There Were None | René Clair |  United States
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| 1947 | Man About Town | René Clair |  France
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| 1948 | Fort Apache (1st prize) | John Ford | United States
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| Germany, Year Zero (2nd prize) | Roberto Rossellini |  Italy
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| 1949 | Yellow Sky | William A. Wellman | France
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| 1950-1957 | |||
| 1958 | Le Beau Serge | Claude Chabrol | France
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| 1959 | Killer's Kiss | Stanley Kubrick | United States
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| 1960 | Foma Gordeev | Mark Donskoy |  Soviet Union
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| 1961-2005 | |||
| 2006 | Le Dernier des fous | Laurent Achard | France Belgium
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| 2007 | Capitaine Achab | Philippe Ramos | France
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| 2008 | All That She Wants | Denis Côté |  Canada
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| 2009 | Tambourine, Drum | Aleksei Mizgiryov |  Russia
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| 2010 | Curling | Denis Côté | Canada
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| 2011 | Best Intentions | Adrian Sitaru |  Romania
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| 2012 | When Night Falls | Liang Ying |  China South Korea
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| 2013 | Our Sunhi | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea
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| 2014 | Horse Money | Pedro Costa |  Portugal
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| 2015 | Cosmos[1] | Andrzej Żuławski | France Portugal
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| 2016 | The Ornithologist[2] | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal France Brazil
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References
- ^ "Palmarès 2015". Locarno.
- ^ "Palmarès 2016". Locarno.