Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion

The Silver Medallion is an award given by the Telluride Film Festival in recognition of achievements in the film industry.

History of the Silver Medallion edit

The first Silver Medallions were awarded in 1974 at the 1st Telluride Film Festival. They are made of pure silver and the design has never changed, featuring the emblematic "SHOW" logo on their face. The presentation of the medallion is preceded by a clip reel, full feature and/or on stage interview. Traditionally, three Silver Medallions are given out each year, with a few exceptions where numerous people from a specific category were paid the honor. Since 1981, a fourth Silver Medallion, the Special Medallion, has been awarded to a hero of cinema, a filmmaker, historian, critic, or organization dedicated to the celebration and preservation of film as an art.[1]

Honorees edit

Edition Silver Medalions Special Medallion
1st (1974)[2] Francis Ford Coppola The first ever Silver Medallion was only awarded in 1981.
Leni Riefensthal
Gloria Swanson
2nd (1975) Werner Herzog
Jack Nicholson
Henry King
3rd (1976) King Kong
Chuck Jones
King Vidor
4th (1977) Agnes Varda
Ben Carré
Michael Powell
5th (1978) The Czech New Wave Jaromil Jireš
Pavel Jurácek
Jan Nemec
Ivan Passer
Sterling Hayden
Hal Roach
6th (1979) Abel Gance
Klaus Kinski
Robert Wise
7th (1980) Robert Altman
Maurice Pialat
Karl Strauss
8th (1981) The Character Actor John Carrdine Stan Brakhage
Elisha Cook
Woody Strode
Margaret Hamilton Kevin Brownlow
Dusan Makavejev
Carlos Diegues
9th (1982) Pierre Braunberger The Special Medallion was not awarded that year.
Athol Fugard
Joel McCrea
10th (1983) Andrei Tarkovsky Irwin Young
Luis Trenker
Richard Widmark
11th (1984) Henry Hathaway Joseph Losey
Janet Leigh
Andrzej Wajda
12th (1985) Emilio Fernandez Paul Kohner
Hanna Schygulla
Alexander Trauner
13th (1986) Isabelle Huppert The Special Medallion was not awarded these years.
Alexander Mackendrick
Jirí Menzel
14th (1987) Tenghiz Abuladze
Stephen Frears
Don Siegel
15th (1988) Pedro Almodóvar
Cab Calloway
The Xi'an Studio
16th (1989) Peter Greenaway William K. Everson
Dennis Potter
Shohei Imamura
17th (1990) John Berry Manny Farber
Gérard Depardieu
Clint Eastwood
18th (1991) Nature's Filmmakers Paul Atkins The Special Medallion was not awarded that year
Peter Jones
Marion Zunz
Jodie Foster
Sven Nykvist
19th (1992) Elmer Bernstein Pierre Rissient
Cy Endfield
Harvey Keitel
20th (1993)[3] John Alton Stefan Jarl
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Ken Loach Arne Sucksdorff
21st (1994)[4] Harriet Andersson Ninon Sevilla
Ken Burns
Judy Davis
22nd (1995) The Surrealists Guy Maddin Andrew Sarris
Stephen Quay
Timothy Quay
Jan Svankmajer
John Schlesinger
Zhang Yimou
23nd (1996) Alain Cavalier Roger Mayer
Mike Leigh
Shirley MacLaine
24th (1997) Horton Foote Milos Stehlik
Neil Jordan
Alexander Sokurov
25th (1998)[5] Susumu Hani Stanley Kauffmann
Vittorio Storaro
Meryl Streep Chris Reyna
26th (1999)[6] Catherine Deneuve Arena
Philip Glass
David Lynch
27th (2000)[7] Im Kwon-taek Elmore Leonard
Ang Lee
Stellan Skarsgard Serge Silberman
28th (2001)[8] Catherine Breillat HBO
Om Puri
Ken Russell
29th (2002)[9] Peter O”Toole Positif
D.A. Pennebaker
Paul Schrader
30th (2003)[10] Peter Brook Ted Turner
Toni Collette
Krzysztof Zanussi
31st (2004)[11] Laura Linney Fred Roos
Jean-Claude Carrière
Theodoros Angelopoulos
32nd (2005)[12] Mickey Rooney The Criterion Collection
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne Janus Films
Charlotte Rampling
33rd (2006)[13] Walter Murch David Thomson
Penélope Cruz
Rolf de Heer
34th (2007)[14] Daniel Day-Lewis Leonard Maltin
Michel Legrand
Shyam Benegal
35th (2008)[15] David Fincher Richard Schickel
Jean Simmons
Jan Troell
36th (2009)[16] Anouk Aimée Serge Bromberg
Viggo Mortensen
Margarethe von Trotta
37th (2010)[17] Claudia Cardinale UCLA Film and Television Archive
Colin Firth
Peter Weir
38th (2011)[18] George Clooney Sight & Sound
Pierre Étaix
Tilda Swinton
39th (2012)[19] Roger Corman Boston Light & Sound
Marion Cotillard
Mads Mikkelsen C. Chapin Cutler Jr.
40th (2013)[20] Robert Redford Alejandro Ramirez
Mohammad Rasoulof
Joel Daniel Coen
Ethan Jesse Coen
T Bone Burnett
41st (2014)[21] Hilary Swank Cineteca de Bologna
Volker Schlöndorff
Apocalypse Now Gian Luca Farinelli
42nd (2015)[22] Danny Boyle Participant Media
Adam Curtis
Rooney Mara
43rd (2016)[23] Casey Affleck The Special Medallion was not awarded that year
Amy Adams
Pablo Larraín
44th (2017)[24] Christian Bale Katriel Schory
Edward Lachman
45th (2018)[25] Alfonso Cuarón Dieter Kosslick
Emma Stone
Rithy Panh
46th (2019)[26] Adam Driver Dolby Laboratories
Renée Zellweger
Philip Kaufman
47th (2020)[27] (cancelled) Chloé Zhao The Special Medallion was not awarded that year, as the festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anthony Hopkins
Kate Winslet
48th (2021)[28] Riz Ahmed Annette Insdorf
Jane Campion
Peter Dinklage
49th (2022)[29] Sarah Polley The Special Medallion was not awarded that year
Cate Blanchett
Mark Cousins
50th (2023)[30] Yorgos Lanthimos The Film Foundation
Wim Wenders
Alice Rohrwacher

References edit

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