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Jury Awards

Each year the SEEfest Jury pays tribute to outstanding films in multiple competition categories.

2024 Jury Awards

BEST FEATURE FILM, GRAND JURY PRIZE
GUARDIANS OF THE FORMULA
by Dragan Bjelogrlić 

Honorable Mention:
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY
by Elene Naveriani 

Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor: 
Alexander Trifonov
THE TRAP 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A FEATURE FILM Cinematographer Ivan Kostić
GUARDIANS OF THE FORMULA

Honorable Mention: 
Cinematographer Matthias Pilz
EXCURSION 

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
MOTHERLAND
by Alexander Mihalkovich & Hanna Badziaka

Honorable Mention: 
NARROW PATH TO HAPPINESS
by Kata Oláh 

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A DOCUMENTARY FILM
Cinematographer Siarhiej Kanaplianik
MOTHERLAND

Honorable Mention: 
Cinematographer Ivo Miko
THE THIRD END OF THE STICK

BEST SHORT FICTION
INVISIBLE BORDER
by Mark Gerstorfer

Honorable Mention: 
DIGNITY KEEPER
by Sandro Rados 

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
WAKING UP IN SILENCE
by Mila Zhluktenko & Daniel Asadi Faezi

Honorable Mention: 
SELF-PORTRAIT ALONG THE BORDERLINE
by Anna Dziapshipa 

BEST SHORT ANIMATION
27
by Flóra Anna Buda

Honorable Mention: 
OCTOPUS BANANA HOTCHPOTCH
by Milanka Fabjančič 


BRIDGING THE BORDERS AWARD
Best Narrative Film: 
CLARA 
by Sabin Dorohoi 

Best Documentary Film:
NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS
by Mila Turajlić

BARCO HDR MASTER LIGHTSTEERING
COLOR GRADE PRIZE
GUARDIANS OF THE FORMULA
by Dragan Bjelogrlić

LIBERTATE (FREEDOM)
by Tudor Giurgiu

MOTHERLAND
by Alexander Mihalkovich & Hanna Badziaka 

AUDIENCE AWARDS
Feature Film:
GUARDIANS OF THE FORMULA 
by Dragan Bjelogrlić 

Documentary Film:
NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS
by Mila Turajlić 

2023 Jury Awards

BEST FEATURE FILM
MEN OF DEEDS
by Paul Negoescu

Honorable Mention: 
SONNE
by Kurdwin Ayub

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
SCENES WITH MY FATHER
by Biserka Šuran

Honorable Mention: 
JUVENILE
by Jovan Todorović

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN FEATURE FILM
Cinematographer Giorgos Karvelas
SILENCE 6-9

Honorable Mention: 
Cinematographer Orlin Ruevski
THE GOOD DRIVER

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN DOCUMENTARY FILM
Cinematographer Hirotoshi Takeoka
ADAMIANI

Honorable Mention: 
Cinematographers Stefan Đorđević & Jovan Todorović
JUVENILE

BEST SHORT FICTION
CHIATURA
by Toby Andris

Special Jury Mentions: 
ON XERXES’ THRONE
by Evi Kalogiropoulou

THE EAGLE’S NEST
by Milija Šćepanović

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
THE SCORE
by Aleksandra Bilić

BEST SHORT ANIMATION
GRANNY’S SEXUAL LIFE
by Urška Djukić & Émilie Pigeard

Honorable Mentions: 
THE LEGEND OF GOLDHORN
by Lea Vučko

MONEY AND HAPPINESS
by Ana Nedeljković & Nikola Majdak Jr.

MOZAIK Bridging the Borders Award
THE GOOD DRIVER
by Tonislav Hristov

Honorable Mention:
THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD
by Teona Strugar-Mitevska

Barco HDR Master LightSteering
Color Grade Prize
Best Feature Film: MEN OF DEEDS
by Paul Negoescu

Best Cinematography in a Feature Film:
SILENCE 6-9
by Christos Passalis & Giorgos Karvelas

AUDIENCE AWARDS
Feature Film:
MEN OF DEEDS
by Paul Negoescu

Documentary Film:
LIGHTS OF SARAJEVO
by Srdjan Perkić

2022 Jury Awards


BEST FEATURE FILM
MURINA
by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović

Honorable Mention:
AS FAR AS I CAN WALK
by Stefan Arsenijević

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A FEATURE FILM
Cinematographer Hélène Louvart
MURINA

Honorable Mention:
Cinematographer Oleksandr Pozdnyakov
BLINDFOLD

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
DIDA
by Nikola Ilić & Corina Schwingruber-Ilić

Honorable Mentions:
RECONCILIATION
by Marija Zidar

THE IMAGE MACHINE
by Roland Sejko

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A DOCUMENTARY FILM
Cinematographer Dominique Colin
THE DELTA OF BUCHAREST

Honorable Mention:
Cinematographer Latif Hasolli
RECONCILIATION

BEST SHORT FICTION
PENALTY SHOT
by Rok Biček

Honorable Mentions:
MARKO
by Marko Šantić

THE CRIMINALS
by Serhat Karaaslan


BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
YOU CAN’T AUTOMATE ME
by Katarina Jazbec

Honorable Mention:
ANJELA
by Vilma Kartalska


BEST SHORT ANIMATION
CAN YOU SEE THEM?
by Bruno Razum

Honorable Mention:
IRIS
by Lucija Bužančić

MOZAIK BRIDGING THE
BORDERS AWARD
AS FAR AS I CAN WALK
by Stefan Arsenijević

Honorable Mention:
SUGHRA’S SONS
by Ilgar Najaf

BARCO HDR MASTER LIGHTSTEERING
COLOR GRADE PRIZE
AS FAR AS I CAN WALK
by Stefan Arsenijević

MURINA
by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović

KLONDIKE
by Maryna Er Gorbach

AUDIENCE AWARDS
Feature Film:
AS FAR AS I CAN WALK
by Stefan Arsenijević

Documentary Film:
LOOKING FOR HORSES
by Stefan Pavlović

2021 Jury Awards

BEST FEATURE FILM
MARE
By Andrea Štaka

Runner Up:
CREAM
By Nóra Lakos

Honorable Mention:
SO, WHAT’S FREEDOM?
By Andrei Zinca

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A FEATURE FILM
Cinematographer Hayk Kirakosyan
IN THE SHADOWS

Honorable Mention:
FEAR
Cinematographer Emil Christov

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
FAITH & BRANKO
By Catherine Harte

Honorable Mentions:
GLORY TO THE QUEEN, LINE OF LIFE
By Tatia (Tamar) Skhirtladze & Darko Bajić

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A DOCUMENTARY FILM
Cinematographer Ivana Marinić Kragić
NUN OF YOUR BUSINESS

THAT OTHER VILLAGE
Cinematographer Srđan Kovačević

Honorable Mentions:
STICKER
By Georgi M. Unkovski

FRENCH CINEMA
By Galina D. Georgieva

BEST SHORT FICTION
IN BETWEEN
By Ana Pasti

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
COLLECTING TIME
By Christos Sagias

Honorable Mention – Shines a Spotlight on an Important Subject in a Compelling Way:
THIS IS RIGHT; ZAC LIFE AND AFTER
By Gevi Dimitrakopoulou

BEST SHORT ANIMATION
ARKA
By Natko Stipaničev

Honorable Mentions:
COCKPERA
By Kata Gugić

ELUSIVENESS
By Marija Vulić

2020 Jury Awards

BEST FEATURE FILM
GRAND JURY PRIZE
ZANA
By Antoneta Kastrati


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A FEATURE FILM
Cinematographer Dávid Hartung
PILATE

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILMS
QUEEN LEAR
By Pelin Esmer

BORA, STORY ABOUT A WIND
By Bernhard Pötscher

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A DOCUMENTARY FILM
Cinematographer Bernhard Pötscher
BORA, STORY ABOUT A WIND

BEST SHORT FICTION
THE DUDE
By Alexandros Kakaniaris

BEST SHORT DOC
THEN COMES THE EVENING
By Maja Novaković

BEST SHORT ANIMATION
PASSAGE
By Igor Ćorić

2019 Jury Awards

BEST FEATURE FILM
GRAND JURY PRIZE
IRINA
By Nadejda Koseva

Special Jury Mention:
THE DELEGATION
By Bujar Alimani

GoE BRIDGING THE BORDERS
AWARD presented by
Cinema Without Borders
CRUSH MY HEART
By Alexandra Makarova

BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM
Irina (Bulgaria)
By Nadejda Koseva

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
NEIGHBORS
By Tomislav Žaja

Special Jury Mention:
REGENERATION
By Emir Kapetanović

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A FEATURE FILM
Cinematographer Miloš Jaćimović
BORDERS, RAINDROPS

Special Jury Mention:
Cinematographer Marko Kočevar
TOGETHER

Special Jury Mention:
Cinematographers Radislav Jovanov Gonzo, Dubravka Kurobasa & Luka Matic
DEEP CUTS

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A DOCUMENTARY FILM
Cinematographer Jasenko Rasol
NEIGHBORS

BEST SHORT FICTION
FUGUE
By Laura Neri

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
CHILDLESS
By George Nicholas Zdravkov

BEST SHORT ANIMATION
THE CALL
By Anca Damian

AUDIENCE AWARDS
Feature Film:
IRINA
By Nadejda Koseva

Documentary Film:
49,172
By Plamen Petrov

2018 Jury Prizes

BEST FEATURE FILM
GRAND JURY PRIZE 
Bridging the Borders Award
POMEGRANATE ORCHARD
By Ilgar Najaf

Special Jury Mention:
HAWAII
By Jesús del Cerro

BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM
THE MARRIAGE
By Blerta Zeqiri

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A FEATURE FILM
Cinematographer Matthias Pilz
THE MINER

Special Jury Mention:
Cinematographer Tudor Vladimir Panduru
HAWAII

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
CONFRONTATION
By Nejla Demirci

Special Jury Mention:
THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING
By Mila Turajlić

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A DOCUMENTARY FILM
Cinematographer Mila Turajlić
THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING

Special Jury Mention:
Cinematographer Andrés Arce Maldonado
THE NEAREST ELSEWHERE. A JOURNEY TO SLOVENIA

BEST SHORT FICTION
WRITTEN/UNWRITTEN
By Adrian Silisteanu

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
BETWEEN LANDS
By Lore Rinsoz

BEST SHORT ANIMATION
THE BEST CUSTOMER
By Serghei Chiviriga

AUDIENCE AWARDS
Feature Film:
UNWANTED
By Edon Rizvanolli

Documentary Film:
RE: PETE
By Andrei Russu

2017 Jury Prizes

BEST FEATURE FILM
GRAND JURY PRIZE 
Bridging the Borders Award
THE CONSTITUTION
By Rajko Grlić

Special Jury Mention:
MY AUNT IN SARAJEVO
By Goran Kapetanović

Special Jury Prize for
Best Ensemble Cast:
THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD
By Anca Miruna Lăzărescu

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A FEATURE FILM EX AEQUO
Cinematographer Kostas Gikas
ROZA OF SMYRNA

Cinematographer Christian Stangassinger
THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
HOME SWEET HOME
By Maja Prettner

Special Jury Mention:
MY WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN
By Petra Seliškar

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN
A DOCUMENTARY FILM
Cinematographer Brand Ferro
MY WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN

BEST SHORT FICTION
LIMBO
By Konstantina Kotzamani

Special Jury Mentions:
LOST EXILE
By Fisnik Maxhuni

REFUGEE 532
By Goran Kapetanović

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOME
By Naré Mkrtchyan

BEST ANIMATION SHORT
ETHNOPHOBIA
By Joan Zhonga

Special Jury Mention:
FLUTTER
By Vladimir Todorov

AUDIENCE AWARDS
Feature Film:
THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD
By Anca Miruna Lăzărescu

Documentary Film:
ANGEL WAGENSTEIN: ART IS A WEAPON
By Andrea Simon

Legacy Awards

The festival honors individuals or organizations for their contributions to the film community with an annual Legacy Award.

Pascal Ladreyt

ELMA, which stands for European Languages and Movies in America, is the umbrella organization in Los Angeles which provides key support for European film festivals, other film showcases that include movies from Europe, and programs for young audiences. It collaborates with a broad network of diplomatic offices and consulates, local authorities, as well as other passionate and dedicated individuals who believe that cinematic language is universal, and that movies facilitate discover of new ideas, people, cultures and places.

Under the leadership of Founder, Pascal Ladreyt, ELMA has helped expand opportunities for American audiences to see European films, and supported programming that connects children, teens, and college students with European cinema and filmmakers. SEEfest salutes these achievements and presents the 2024 Legacy Award to Pascal Ladreyt, the tireless champion of European cinematic creativity as an alternative to the Hollywood canon.

Otto Nemenz

Born in Austria to a Greek mother and Austrian father with roots in Romania, Otto Constantin Nemenz grew up in Turkey where he first developed an interest in photography. He went on to earn a degree in optical engineering from the Vienna Technical Institute in Austria and ever since has been instrumental in the advancement of technology in the motion picture industry. His first job in Hollywood was at Panavision, where he left to work on the John Frankenheimer-directed classic Grand Prix, as a camera technician. On that fabled shoot, Otto worked alongside second unit cameraman John M. Stephens, who pioneered the use of a number of camera mounts and developed the first remotely operated pan-and-tilt-head camera for this film. From the early days of working out of a garage, Otto devoted his life to building the world-class camera rental facility which bears his name, Otto Nemenz International (ONI). It is renowned for customizing and renting camera equipment to major Hollywood studios as well as independent film productions since 1979. Originally located on Vine Street in Hollywood, ONI now occupies a 40,000 sq. ft. facility in Culver City. ONI’s name stands for top-notch quality and innovation such as the Canon/Nemenz Zoom Lens for which the company received Sci Tech Oscar. The company machines its own parts and offers over 3,000 lenses and an extensive inventory of cameras to provide customized packages for any film requirement. Otto also founded the Los Angeles’ annual Cine-Gear Exposition for film, video and digital media. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Stefania Magidson

Romanian-American Stefania Magidson is the 2022 recipient of the SEEfest’s Legacy Humanitarian Award. With her Blue Heron Foundation, which she created in 2002 to lift abandoned youth in Romania from poverty and abuse, she quickly pivoted to refugee relief when the war broke out in Ukraine and led an emergency operation raising $280,000 to date and organizing her team of volunteers to meet refugees at the border with food, transportation and sim cards; also sending a weekly caravan of medicine to three Ukrainian hospitals. The Foundation installed heated medical modules in several refugee camps for the old and sick, and facilitated bringing US doctors and TeleHealth to Romania and Moldova.

Stefania Magidson was born in Romania and in 1983 immigrated with her family to the United States. She received degrees in Health Education and Applied Psychology.

In 2002 she founded the Blue Heron Foundation, one of the largest non-profits in the Romanian diaspora, focusing on improving the quality of life of Romanian and Moldovan abandoned youth by awarding them merit-based college scholarships and a mentorship program. To date, the organization has raised over 3 Million dollars, has awarded over 450 college scholarships and has touched the lives of over 3,000 kids.

Stefania serves on the Dean’s Council at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU; is the Chair of the Romanian Film Committee of the South-East European Film Festival/LA; is a member of the advisory board of the Roma People’s Project at the Hayman Center for Humanities/Columbia University.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Mark, their two sons and her parents.

Marija Škaričić

Marija Škaričić began her acting career in the Youth Theatre in her native city of Split, Croatia. After completing her formal training at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, she appeared in numerous critically acclaimed productions of the Croatian National Theatre (HNK). The role of the drug addict Maja in A WONDERFUL NIGHT IN SPLIT (Arsen A. Ostojić, 2004) brought her the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actress.

Škaričić first worked with Andrea Štaka in the award-winning feature film FRAULEIN (2006) and won her second Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the feisty young Bosnian wanderer Ana. In 2011 she was one of the ten Berlinale EFP shooting stars.

For the leading role in MOTHER OF ASPHALT by Dalibor Matanić, she was awarded the Best Actress Golden Arena in the national competition at the Pula Film Festival, and the FIPA D’OR in Biarritz, France 2011. For the last seven years Škaričić has focused on her academic career and taught acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. MARE is her third collaboration with Andrea Štaka, and her third Heart of Sarajevo award.

Jasna Djuričić

Jasna Djuričić is a Serbian actress who plays the lead in the Academy Award nominated film from Bosnia Herzegovina, QUO VADIS, AIDA? directed by Jasmila
Žbanić. Winner of all major acting prizes in her home country, she first gained international recognition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010 when she was awarded Best Actress prize for her turn in White White World by Oleg Novković. She graduated at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where she is now professor herself.

Ms Djuričić is member of the Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad, a venerable repertory playhouse. She has played the lead in countless stage productions at home
and as a guest actor in other theaters in the region. Among her cinema roles are Quo Vadis, Aida?, My Morning Laughter, A Good Wife, Train Driver’s Diary, Men Don’t Cry, Take Me Somewhere Nice, White White World, For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, Circles, Autumn in My Street, The Paradise Suite, and numerous TV series.

She is married to actor Boris Isaković with whom she frequently co-stars.

Dubravka Ugrešić

Over the past three decades, Dubravka Ugrešić has established herself as one of Europe’s most distinctive novelists and essayists. From her early postmodernist
excursions, to her elegiac reckonings in fiction and the essay with the disintegration of her Yugoslav homeland and the fall of the Berlin Wall, through to her more recent writings on popular and literary culture, Ugrešić’s work is marked by a rare combination of irony, polemic, and compassion.Following degrees in Comparative and Russian Literature, Ugrešić worked for many years at the University of Zagreb’s Institute for Theory of Literature, successfully pursuing parallel careers as both a writer and as a scholar. In 1991, when war broke out in the former Yugoslavia, Ugrešić took a firm anti-war stance, critically dissecting retrograde Croatian and Serbian nationalism, the stupidity and criminality of war, and in the process became a target for nationalist journalists, politicians and fellow writers. Subjected to prolonged public ostracism and persistent media harassment, she left Croatia in 1993. She therefore positions herself as a “transnational” or rather a “post-national” writer and champions the right of authors not to recognize or respect ethnic and national borders, especially in cases where these are being imposed by force, as they are in her case.

In an exile that has in time become emigration, her books have been translated into thirty languages. She has taught at a number of American and European universities, including Harvard, UCLA, Columbia and the Free University of Berlin. She is the winner of several major literary prizes (Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1998; finalist of Man Booker International Prize 2009; Jean Améry Essay Prize, awarded for her essayistic work as a whole, 2012; Vilenica Prize 2016; while Karaoke Culture was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2011. She is the winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Ugrešić lives in Amsterdam.

https://www.dubravkaugresic.com/

Gregory Laemmle

The 2019 SEEfest Legacy Award pays tribute to Gregory Laemmle in recognition of his, and his family’s commitment to international cinema, to generations of independent filmmakers whose films always found a screen available at one of Laemmle’s arthouse theaters, and to an audience of Angelenos for whom Laemmle Theaters are a second home.

Robert Dornhelm

Robert Dornhelm was born in 1947 in Timișoara, Romania and emigrated in 1961 to Austria, where he studied film at the Vienna Academy of Film, Music and Performing Arts. He started his career very early, directing numerous documentaries on social and cultural subjects, many of them in Eastern Europe (Vladimir Vysotsky, Neizvestny). His 1977 documentary on the Kirov School of Ballet, The Children of Theater Street, featured Princess Grace of Monaco in a rare film appearance as presenter and narrator. The film was shown in Cannes and established Dornhelm internationally when he received an Academy Award® nomination in 1978.

Mirjana Karanovic

Mirjana Karanović is a Serbian actress who shot to stardom with her screen debut in the 1980 film Petria’s Wreath by Srđan Karanović. World fame came with the role of the mother in Emir Kusturica’s When Father was Away on Business in 1985, which won Palme d’Or in Cannes as well as the Fipresci award, and was nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a National Board of Review and a David di Donatello awards.

One of her most memorable roles was Esma in Grbavica (The Land of My Dreams), directed by Jasmila Žbanić, winner of the Golden Bear Award for Best Film at the
Berlinale 2006. For this performance, Mirjana Karanović has won a number of festival awards and a nomination for the European Film Academy Award 2006. Among other films, she appeared in Andrea Štaka’s Das Fraulein (Grand Prix at Locarno Film Festival 2006, Heart of Sarajevo Award) and Darko Lungulov’s film Here and There (The Best New York Narrative at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival).

This year, her directorial debut, A Good Wife had its world premiere at Sundance. In 2008 Mirjana Karanović won the Winning Freedom Award, an award presented to a woman whose work promotes and affirms the principles of human rights, rule of law, democracy and tolerance in society. SEEfest 2016 Legacy Award is presented to Mirjana Karanović’s entire body of work in cinema, in support of human rights, and for her dedication to students and young actors.

Victor Rebengiuc

Victor Rebengiuc is an award-winning Romanian film and stage actor. Since 1957, he has been a member of the Bulandra Theater company, acting in more than 200 roles on that stage alone. Having had his breakthrough performance with Liviu Ciule’s The Forest of the Hanged, Rebengiuc became a major figure in Romanian cinema, and became especially known for his 1986 appearance in Stere Gulea’s Moromeţii. He also starred in films by Dan Piţa (Tănase Scatiu; Dreptate în lanţuri; Faleze de nisip; The Man of the Day) and Lucian Pintilie (De ce trag clopotele, Mitică?; Balanţa; Too Late; Last Stop Paradise; Niki and Flo; Tertium non datur). Rebengiuc was celebrated for his stage performances, appearing in plays directed by, among others, Ciulei, Radu Penciulescu, Andrei Şerban, Cătălina Buzoianu, Yuri Kordonsky, Gábor Tompa and Alexandru Dabija. The former husband of actress Anca Vereşti, he is married to Mariana Mihuţ, his Bulandra colleague. He starred in MEDAL OF HONOR (Cãlin Peter Netzer, 2009), AFERIM! (Radu Jude, 2015), HALF SHAVED (Bogdan Muresanu, 2013) and THE JAPANESE DOG (Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, 2013). He has received multiple awards, and in 2017 was given the National order “Star of Romania.”

George Chakiris

George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is a retired American dancer, singer, and actor. He is best known for his appearance in the 1961 film version of the WEST
SIDE STORY as Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks gang, for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best
Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Born in Ohio to Greek parents, George Chakiris enjoyed a long and versatile career alongside such film luminaries as Catherine Deneuve and Gene Kelly in “The young
girls of Rochefort”, Charlton Heston in “Diamondhead”, Marilyn Monroe in “Gentlemen prefer blondes” and Claudia Cardinale in “Bebo’s girl”, among many others. He appeared on stage in London’s West End and on Broadway, hosted musical TV specials in France, Germany and Japan, starred in mini-series in Japan
and England, and had recurring roles on American TV in “Dallas”, “Hawaii Five-O”, and “The Carol Burnett Show.”

For his contributions to the arts George Chakiris has received France’s “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”.