# Fantasporto

Fantasporto, also known as Fantas, is an international film festival, annually organized since 1981 in Porto, Portugal. Giving screen space to fantasy/science fiction/horror-oriented commercial feature films, auteur films and experimental projects from all over the world, Fantasporto has created enthusiastic audiences, ranging from cinephiles to more popular spectators, with an annual average of 110,000 attendees. It was rated in Variety as one of the 25 leading festivals of the world. In its 27th edition in February 2006 the festival reached 104,000 people and 5,000 media references, both domestic and international, with a record of 187 hours of TV time. Present in Porto were about 100 members of the foreign press and about 250 Portuguese journalists and media representatives.
In spite of being organized by a private entity, the event is mostly state funded, with the Ministry of Culture of Portugal leading and the President of the Republic as head of the Honour Committee, along with several private sponsors.

## Awards

* Secção Oficial Cinema Fantástico
** Grande Prémio Fantasporto – Best Film Award
** Prémio Especial do Juri – Jury’s Special Award
** Melhor Realização – Best Direction
** Melhor Actor – Best Actor
** Melhor Actriz – Best Actress
** Melhor Argumento – Best Screenplay
** Melhores Efeitos Especiais – Best Special Effects
** Melhor Curta-Metragem – Best Short Film
** Menção do Juri Internacional – Special Mention of the Jury
* Semana dos Realizadores
** Prémio Melhor Filme Semana dos Realizadores: – Directors Week Best Film Award
** Prémio Especial do Juri – Directors Week Jury’s Special Award
** Melhor Realização – Directors Week Best Director Award
** Melhor Actor – Directors Week Best Actor Award
** Melhor Actriz – Directors Week Best Actress Award
** Melhor Argumento – Directors Week Best Screenplay Award
** Menção Especial – Special Mention of the Directors Week Jury
* Prémio do Cinema Português
** Melhor Filme – Best Portuguese Picture
** Melhor Escola – Best Portuguese Cinema School
* Non official awards
** International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award
** Prémio da Crítica – Critic’s Award
** Prémio do Público – Audience Award
* Prémios Carreira

## Grande Prémio Fantasporto

The Grande Prémio Fantasporto is the highest prize awarded at the Fantasporto Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition.

### Award winners

| Year | Film | Director | Nationality of Director (at time of film's release) |
| 1982 | The Redeemer | Krsto Papić | * Yugoslavia |
| 1983 | Scanners | David Cronenberg | * Canada |
| 1984 | The Last Battle | Luc Besson | * France |
| 1985 | The Company of Wolves | Neil Jordan | * United Kingdom |
| 1986 | Eternal Fire | José Ángel Rebolledo | * Spain |
| 1987 | Defense of the Realm | David Drury | United Kingdom |
| 1988 | A Chinese Ghost Story | Ching Siu-tung | * Hong Kong |
| 1989 | Monkey Shines | George A. Romero | United States |
| 1990 | Black Rainbow | Mike Hodges | United Kingdom |
| 1991 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | John McNaughton | United States |
| 1992 | Toto the Hero | Jaco van Dormael | * Belgium |
| 1993 | Braindead | Peter Jackson | * New Zealand |
| 1994 | Cronos | Guillermo del Toro | * Mexico |
| 1995 | Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom |
| 1996 | Seven | David Fincher | United States |
| 1997 | Bound | The Wachowskis | United States |
| 1998 | Retroactive | Louis Morneau | United States |
| 1999 | Cube | Vincenzo Natali | * Canada |
| 2000 | Siam Sunset | John Polson | * Australia |
| 2001 | Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico |
| 2002 | Fausto 5.0 | La Fura dels Baus | Spain |
| 2003 | Intacto | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Spain |
| 2004 | A Tale of Two Sisters | Kim Jee-woon | * South Korea |
| 2005 | Nothing | Vincenzo Natali | Canada |
| 2006 | Frostbiten | Anders Banke | * Sweden |
| 2007 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | Mexico |
| 2008 | REC | Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza | Spain |
| 2009 | Idiots and Angels | Bill Plympton | United States |
| 2010 | Heartless | Philip Ridley | United Kingdom |
| 2011 | Two Eyes Staring | Elbert van Strien | * Netherlands |
| 2012 | Hell | Tim Fehlbaum | * Germany |
| 2013 | Mama | Andy Muschietti | Spain / Canada |
| 2014 | Miss Zombie | Sabu | * Japan |
| 2015 | Liza, the Fox-Fairy | Károly Ujj Mészáros | * Hungary |
| 2016 | The Lure | Agnieszka Smoczynska | * Poland |
| 2017 | Realive | Mateo Gil | Spain |
| 2018 | Ravenous | Robin Aubert | Canada |
| 2019 | Last Sunrise | Wen Ren | China |
| 2020 | Ghost Master | Paul Young | Japan |
| 2021 | Suicide Forest Village | Takashi Shimizu | Japan |
| 2022 | Follow Her | Sylvia Caminer | United States |
| 2023 | Once Upon a Time in the Future: 2121 | Serpil Altin | Turkey |
| 2024 | From the End of the World | Kazuaki Kiriya | Japan |
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### Multiple award winners

* Vincenzo Natali (1999, 2005)
* Guillermo del Toro (1994, 2007)

## Melhor Actor

The Best Actor Award (Portuguese: Melhor Actor) is an award presented at Fantasporto. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1982.

### Award winners

| Year | Actor | Film |
| 1982 | Eusebio Poncela | Arrebato |
| 1983 | Fabijan Šovagović | Ritam zločina |
| 1984 | Vincent Price | For their contributions to the fantastic film genre. |
| 1984 | Peter Cushing | For their contributions to the fantastic film genre. |
| 1984 | Christopher Lee | For their contributions to the fantastic film genre. |
| 1984 | John Carradine | For their contributions to the fantastic film genre. |
| 1985 | John Hurt | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| 1985 | Eddy Mitchell | Frankenstein 90 |
| 1986 | Ian Holm | Dreamchild |
| 1987 | Gabriel Byrne | Gothic |
| 1987 | Gabriel Byrne | Defence of the Realm |
| 1988 | Jim van der Woude | De Wisselwachter |
| 1989 | Jeremy Irons | Dead Ringers |
| 1990 | Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu | Spoorloos |
| 1991 | Michael Rooker | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer |
| 1992 | Jeff Daniels | Timescape |
| 1993 | Harvey Keitel | Bad Lieutenant |
| 1994 | Federico Luppi | Cronos |
| 1995 | Karra Elejalde | La Madre Muerta |
| 1996 | Rupert Everett | Cemetery Man |
| 1997 | Juan Inciarte | Sólo se muere dos veces |
| 1998 | Nancho Novo | Dame algo |
| 1999 | Kevin McKidd | The Acid House |
| 1999 | Gary McCormack | The Acid House |
| 2000 | Tom Fisher | The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz |
| 2000 | Konstantin Prochorowski | Holgi |
| 2001 | Willem Dafoe | Shadow of the Vampire |
| 2002 | Eduard Fernández | Fausto 5.0 |
| 2002 | Miguel Ángel Solá | Fausto 5.0 |
| 2003 | Jeremy Northam | Cypher |
| 2004 | Darío Grandinetti | Palabras encadenadas |
| 2005 | Bruce Campbell | Bubba Ho-Tep |
| 2006 | Jaume García Arija | Zulo |
| 2007 | Sergi López | Pan's Labyrinth |
| 2008 | Mark Borkowski | The Ungodly |
| 2009 | Jack O'Connell | Eden Lake |
| 2010 | Jim Sturgess | Heartless |
| 2011 | Axel Wedekind | Iron Doors |
| 2012 | Alexis Diaz de Villegas | Juan of the Dead |
| 2013 | Toby Jones | Berberian Sound Studio |
| 2014 | Duval’e Glickman | Big Bad Wolves |
| 2015 | Rupert Evans | The Canal |
| 2016 | Kenichi Matsuyama | Chasuke's Journey |
| 2017 | Frederick Koehler | The Evil Within |
| 2018 | Ian Veneracion | Ilawod |
| 2019 | Christopher Rygh | The Head Hunter |
| 2020 | Leif Edlund | Koko-di Koko-da |
| 2021 | James D'Arcy | LX 2048 |
| 2022 | László Attila Horváth | SoulPark |
| 2023 | Zsolt Nagy | A játszma |
| 2024 | Tovino Thomas | Invisible Windows |

## Melhor Atriz

The Best Actress Award (Portuguese: Melhor Atriz) is an award presented at Fantasporto. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1982.

### Award winners

| Year | Actress | Film |
| 1982 | Julie Christie | Memoirs of a Survivor |
| 1983 | Isabelle Adjani | Possession |
| 1984 | Anny Duperey | Le Démon dans l'île |
| 1985 | Adriana Herrán | Carne de tu carne |
| 1986 | Domiziana Giordano | Zina |
| 1987 | Julieta Serrano | Matador |
| 1988 | Charlotte Rampling | Mascara |
| 1989 | Charlotte Burke | Paperhouse |
| 1990 | Rosanna Arquette | Black Rainbow |
| 1991 | Tracy Arnold | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer |
| 1991 | Billie Whitelaw | The Krays |
| 1992 | Juliet Stevenson | Truly, Madly, Deeply |
| 1993 | Evangelina Sosa | Ángel de Fuego |
| 1994 | Sarah Smuts-Kennedy | Jack Be Nimble |
| 1995 | Rena Owen | Once Were Warriors |
| 1996 | Helena Bonham Carter | Margaret's Museum |
| 1997 | Jennifer Tilly | Bound |
| 1998 | Rebecca Hobbs | The Ugly |
| 1999 | Sofie Gråbøl | Credo |
| 2000 | Danielle Cormack | Siam Sunset |
| 2001 | Suh Jung | The Isle |
| 2002 | Jang Jin-young | Sorum |
| 2003 | Asuka Kurosawa | Rokugatsu no hebi |
| 2004 | Im Soo-jung | A Tale of Two Sisters |
| 2005 | Karen Black | Firecracker |
| 2006 | Orsolya Tóth | Johanna |
| 2007 | Ariadna Gil | Ausentes |
| 2008 | Belén Rueda | El orfanato |
| 2009 | Mamatha Bhukya | Vanaja |
| 2010 | Neve McIntosh | Salvage |
| 2011 | Seo Young-hee | Bedevilled |
| 2012 | Hannah Herzsprung | Hell |
| 2013 | Jessica Chastain | Mama |
| 2014 | Anna Walton | Soulmate |
| 2015 | Georgia Bradley | Hungerford |
| 2016 | Barbie Forteza | Laut |
| 2017 | Catherine Walker | A Dark Song |
| 2018 | Jessica McLeod | The Hollow Child |
| 2019 | Georgia Chara | Living Space |
| 2020 | Cristine Reyes | UnTrue |
| 2021 | Thekla Reuten | Marionette |
| 2022 | Dani Barker | Follow Her |
| 2023 | Thekla Reuten | Narcosis |
| 2024 | Eve Ringuette | Jour de Merde |

## Melhor Argumento

The Best Screenplay Award (Portuguese: Melhor Argumento) is an award presented at Fantasporto. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival.

### Award winners

| Year | Writer | Film |
| 2012 | Alejandro Brugués | Juan of the Dead |
| 2013 | Alex Schmidt [de] | Forgotten [de] |
| 2014 | Yeon Sang-ho | The Fake |
| 2015 | Jong-ho Lee | Mourning Grave |
| 2016 | Sabu | Chasuke's Journey |
| 2017 | Mateo Gil | Realive |
| 2018 | Shin Su-won | Glass Garden |
| 2019 | Rodrigo Aragão | A Mata Negra |
| 2020 | Chris Bavota & Lee Paula Springer | Dead Dicks |
| 2021 | Gábor Hellebrandt & Péter Bergendy | Post Mortem |
| 2022 | Rick Ostermann & Patrick Brunken & Dirk Kurbjuweit | Das Haus |
| 2023 | Norbert Köbli | A játszma |
| 2024 | Sébastien Drouin | Cold Meat |