# Golden Shell

The Golden Shell (Spanish: Concha de Oro; Basque: Urrezko Maskorra) is the highest prize given to a competing film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was introduced in 1957. In 1953 and 1954, the highest prize had been called the Gran Premio. In 1955 and 1956 it was replaced by the Silver Shell. Six directors have won the Golden Shell twice: American director Francis Ford Coppola (in 1969 & 1984), Spanish director Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (in 1982 & 1986), Mexican director Arturo Ripstein (in 1993 & 2000), Spanish director Imanol Uribe (in 1994 & 1996), Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (in 2004 & 2006), and Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta (in 2011 & 2018).

## Winners

| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 1953 | I Was a Parish Priest | La Guerra de Dios | Rafael Gil | Spain |
| 1954 | Cursed Mountain | Sierra maldita | Antonio del Amo | Spain |
| 1955 | Days of Love | Giorni d'amore | Giuseppe de Santis | Italy |
| 1956 | The Railroad Man | Il ferroviere | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| 1957 | Oh! Sabella | La nonna Sabella | Dino Risi | Italy |
| 1958 | Eve Wants to Sleep | Ewa chce spać | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Poland |
| 1959 | The Nun's Story | The Nun's Story | Fred Zinnemann | United States |
| 1960 | Romeo, Juliet and Darkness | Romeo, Julie a tma | Jiri Weiss | Czechoslovakia |
| 1961 | One-Eyed Jacks | One-Eyed Jacks | Marlon Brando | United States |
| 1962 | Arturo's Island | L'isola di Arturo | Damiano Damiani | Italy |
| 1963 | Mafioso | Mafioso | Alberto Lattuada | Italy |
| 1964 | America, America | America, America | Elia Kazan | United States |
| 1965 | Golden Queen | Zlatá reneta | Otakar Vávra | Czechoslovakia |
| 1965 | Mirage | Mirage | Edward Dmytryk | United States |
| 1966 | I Was Happy Here | I Was Happy Here | Desmond Davis | United Kingdom |
| 1967 | Two for the Road | Two for the Road | Stanley Donen | United States |
| 1968 | The Long Day's Dying | The Long Day's Dying | Peter Collinson | United Kingdom |
| 1969 | The Rain People | The Rain People | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| 1970 | Dead of Summer | Ondata di calore | Nelo Risi | Italy |
| 1971 | Claire's Knee | Le Genou de Claire | Eric Rohmer | France |
| 1972 | The Glass House | The Glass House | Tom Gries | United States |
| 1973 | The Spirit of the Beehive | El espíritu de la colmena | Víctor Erice | Spain |
| 1974 | Badlands | Badlands | Terrence Malick | United States |
| 1975 | Poachers | Furtivos | José Luis Borau | Spain |
| 1976 | Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven | Табор уходит в небо | Emil Loteanu | Soviet Union |
| 1977 | An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano | Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union |
| 1978 | Alambrista! | Alambrista! | Robert M. Young | United States |
| 1979 | Autumn Marathon | Осенний марафон | Georgi Daneliya | Soviet Union |
| 1980 | The Orchestra Conductor | Dyrygent | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| 1981 | Tales of Ordinary Madness | Storie di ordinaria follia | Marco Ferreri | Italy |
| 1982 | Demons in the Garden | Demonios en el jardín | Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Spain |
| 1983 | Entre Nous | Entre Nous | Diane Kurys | France |
| 1984 | Rumble Fish | Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| 1985 | Yesterday | Yesterday | Radosław Piwowarski | Poland |
| 1986 | Half of Heaven | La mitad del cielo | Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Spain |
| 1987 | Wedding in Galilee | عرس الجليل | Michel Khleifi | Belgium France |
| 1988 | On the Black Hill | On the Black Hill | Andrew Grieve | United Kingdom |
| 1989 | Homer and Eddie | Homer and Eddie | Andrei Konchalovski | United States |
| 1989 | La nación clandestina | La nación clandestina | Jorge Sanjinés | Bolivia |
| 1990 | Letters from Alou | Las cartas de Alou | Montxo Armendáriz | Spain |
| 1991 | Butterfly Wings | Alas de mariposa | Juanma Bajo Ulloa | Spain |
| 1992 | A Place in the World | Un lugar en el mundo | Adolfo Aristarain | Argentina |
| 1993 | The Beginning and the End | Principio y fin | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico |
| 1993 | Sara | سارا | Dariush Mehrjui | Iran |
| 1994 | Días contados | Días contados | Imanol Uribe | Spain |
| 1995 | Margaret's Museum | Margaret's Museum | Mort Ransen | Canada United Kingdom |
| 1996 | Bwana | Bwana | Imanol Uribe | Spain |
| 1996 | Trojan Eddie | Trojan Eddie | Gillies MacKinnon | Ireland |
| 1997 | The Swindle | Rien ne va plus | Claude Chabrol | France |
| 1998 | Wind with the Gone | El viento se llevó lo qué | Alejandro Agresti | Argentina France Netherlands Spain |
| 1999 | C'est quoi la vie? | C'est quoi la vie? | François Dupeyron | France |
| 2000 | The Ruination of Men | La perdición de los hombres | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico Spain |
| 2001 | A Cab for Three | Taxi para tres | Orlando Lübbert | Chile |
| 2002 | Mondays in the Sun | Los lunes al sol | Fernando León de Aranoa | Spain France Italy |
| 2003 | Gun-shy | Schussangst | Dito Tsintsadze | Germany |
| 2004 | Turtles Can Fly | کیسەڵەکانیش دەفڕن | Bahman Ghobadi | Iran France Iraq |
| 2005 | Something Like Happiness | Štěstí | Bohdan Sláma | Czech Republic |
| 2006 | Half Moon | نیوەمانگ | Bahman Ghobadi | Iran |
| 2006 | Mon fils à moi | Mon fils à moi | Martial Fougeron | France |
| 2007 | A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | Wayne Wang | United States |
| 2008 | Pandora's Box | Pandora'nın Kutusu | Yeşim Ustaoğlu | Turkey |
| 2009 | City of Life and Death | 南京！南京！ | Lu Chuan | China |
| 2010 | Neds | Neds | Peter Mullan | United Kingdom France Italy |
| 2011 | Los pasos dobles | Los pasos dobles | Isaki Lacuesta | Spain Switzerland |
| 2012 | In the House | Dans la maison | François Ozon | France |
| 2013 | Bad Hair | Pelo malo | Mariana Rondón | Venezuela Peru Germany |
| 2014 | Magical Girl | Magical Girl | Carlos Vermut | Spain |
| 2015 | Sparrows | Þrestir | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Denmark Iceland |
| 2016 | I Am Not Madame Bovary | 我不是潘金莲 | Feng Xiaogang | China |
| 2017 | The Disaster Artist | The Disaster Artist | James Franco | United States |
| 2018 | Between Two Waters | Entre dos Aguas | Isaki Lacuesta | Spain |
| 2019 | Pacified | Pacificado | Paxton Winters | Brazil |
| 2020 | Beginning | დასაწყისი | Déa Kulumbegashvili | Georgia |
| 2021 | Blue Moon | Crai Nou | Alina Grigore | Romania |
| 2022 | The Kings of the World | Los reyes del mundo | Laura Mora | Colombia |
| 2023 | The Rye Horn | O corno | Jaione Camborda | Spain Portugal Belgium |
| 2024 | Afternoons of Solitude | Tardes de soledad | Albert Serra | Spain Portugal France |