Locarno International Film Festival
Locarno, Switzerland
Notes
- The festival takes place since 1946 and is officially competitive since 1949.
Awards
Aaton Award
- The award is given in the "Leopards of Tomorrow" section of the festival.
Action Light Award
- The award is given in the "Leopards of Tomorrow" section of the festival.
Action Light Award - Special Mention
Audentia Award
Audience Award
Award of the New York Film Academy
- The award is given in the "Leopards of Tomorrow" section of the festival.
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Director
Best Emerging Director - Filmmakers of the Present
Best First Feature
Best First Feature - Special Mention
Best First Film
- Traditionally, the official competition jury also awarded a Silver Leopard along with 30,000 Swiss francs donated by the Town and Region of Locarno to the best film in the competition from a first or second time director. With the creation of the new Filmmakers of the Present competition, which will include a large number of first films, the Leopard for a First Film was inaugurated, awarded by a three-member jury - who will view all the first films in the two competitions.
Best Independent Producer Award
Best Performance
Best Super Short Film
Best Swiss Newcomer
Bronze Leopard
- Can be considered to be the third best film.
Bronze Leopard's Eye
C.I.C.A.E. Award
C.I.C.A.E. Award - Special Mention
Carte Blanche
Cinema & Gioventù Jury Prize - Leopards of Tomorrow
Cinema & Gioventù Jury Prize Special Mention - Leopards of Tomorrow
Cinema Ticino Award
Critics Award Boccalino d'Oro
Critics Week Award
Critics Week Award - Special Mention
Daniel Schmid Prize
Diploma D'Onore
Doc Alliance Selection Award
Don Quixote Award
Don Quixote Award - Special Mention
Eastman Kodak Award
- The award is given in the "Leopards of Tomorrow" section of the festival.
Ernest Artaria Award
Europa Cinemas Label
Excellence Award
FIPRESCI Prize
FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention
Film and Video Prize Subtitling Prize
- The award is given in the "Leopards of Tomorrow" section of the festival.
Film and Video Subtitling Award
Film and Video Subtitling Award - Special Mention
Films After Tomorrow
First Look Award
First Look Rotor Film Award
Golden Leopard
Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present
Golden Leopard - Special Mention
Golden Leopard - Video
Golden Leopard Special Jury Prize
Golden Leopard's Eye
Golden Pardino - Leopards of Tomorrow
Golden Pardino - Special Mention
Golden Sail
- The Golden Sail was the main award of the festival in the years between 1958 and 1965. It was succeeded by the Grand Prix.
Grand Prix
- The Grand Prix was the main award of the festival in the years between 1966 and 1967. It succeeded the Golden Sail and was the predecessor to the Golden Leopard.
- The main award of the years 1948 until 1950 also had been called Grand Prix.
Green Leopard WWF (Pardo Verde WWF)
Human Rights Award
Human Rights Award - Special Mention
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur @ Villa Sträuli
Junior Jury Award
Junior Jury Award - "Environment Is Quality of Life" Prize
Junior Jury Award - Special Mention
Le Film Français Award
Leopard Career Award
Leopard Club Award
Leopard of Honor
Leopards of Tomorrow
Leopards of Tomorrow - Best Film
- The award is the main prize the "Leopards of Tomorrow" section of the festival. The section is a showcase for new Swiss and international filmmakers with the international focus on another country each year.
Leopards of Tomorrow - Best Swiss Film
- The award is the main prize for Swiss films in the "Leopards of Tomorrow" section of the festival. The section is a showcase for new Swiss and international filmmakers with the international focus on another country each year.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Locarno Kids Award
Locarno Summer Academy
Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award
Mention
Moving Ahead Award
Moving Ahead Award - Special Mention
Netpac Award
Netpac Award - Special Mention
Netpac Special Jury Award
Open Doors
Pardi di domani
Pardi di domani Best Direction Award - BONALUMI Engineering
Pardi di domani Best Direction Prize - PIANIFICA
Pardino d'argento SRG SSR
Pardino d’argento Swiss Life
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life
Pardo Verde Ricola
Pardo Verde Ricola - Special Mention
Pardo d'onore Manor Award
Pianifica Award
Premio Medien Patent Verwaltung Ag Prize
Premio Speciale ISPEC Cultura
Premio Zonta Club Award
Premio dell'Utopia
Prize
- In most years of the period between 1946 and 1957 there just had been Prizes ("Premio"), with a short interlude of the Grand Prix between 1948 and 1950.
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention
Raimondo Rezzonico Award
- Raimondo Rezzonico for fifty years devoted himself with vision and generosity to the festival. As president for twenty years, he contributed with passion to the continuous growth of the festival. By naming this prize after him we intend to celebrate not only the president, but also our late friend. We thus intend to honor a professional category which is often overlooked. With their spirit and their commitment, independent producers are a fundamental force for new and experimental cinema; the very cinema that Locarno has always cherished and promoted.
Rotterdam Lab Award
SUISA Foundation Prize for Music
Short Film Candidate of the Locarno Film Festival for the European Film Awards
Signs of Life Section
Silver Leopard
Silver Leopard - Video
Silver Leopard's Eye
Silver Pardino - Leopards of Tomorrow
Silver Sail
Special Jury Prize
Special Jury Prize - Filmmakers of the Present
Special Mention
Special Mention (Leopards of Tomorrow)
Special Mention - Filmmakers of the Present
Special Mention - Leopards of Tomorrow
Special Mention - Video
Special Prize
Special Prize of the Jury
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award - Special Mention
Swiss Critics Boccalino Award
Swiss Critics Boccalino Award - Special Mention
Swiss Film Score Award
Swissair/Crossair Special Prize
Variety Piazza Grande Award
Vision Award
Vision Award Ticinomoda
Youth Jury Award
Youth Jury Award - "Environment Is Quality of Life" Prize
Youth Jury Award - "Environment Is Quality of Life" Special Mention
Youth Jury Award - Special Mention
Youth Jury Award: Environment is Quality of Life
Youth Jury Award: Euro<26
Youth Jury: Leopard of Tomorrow
Youth Jury: Leopard of Tomorrow - Special Mention
Youth on Youth Award
Youth on Youth Award - Special Mention
Zonta Club Locarno Award
Historical Timeline
1948
- The entries are judged by a non-official jury.
1982
- The jury decides not to hand out main awards (golden, silver and bronze), but instead issues four special mentions.