IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention

The IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention (officially known as the Silver Peacock - Special Jury Award and Special Mention) are the two honors presented annually at the International Film Festival of India for excellency in Film Art in World cinema.^[1] It was first presented during the 4th IFFI 1969.^[2] The award was later re-instated since 29th IFFI 1998.^[3][4] On the occasion of 100 years of Indian cinema, Centenary Awards were conferred during 2012, 2013, and 2014.^[5][6] The Special Mention being awarded since the 46th IFFI 2015.^[7]

IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention
International award for contributions to World Cinema
Awarded for	Excellency in Film Art
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)	Special Jury Award Special Mention
First awarded	1969, 1998
Last awarded	2022
Most recent winner	When The Waves Are Gone Cinema Bandi
Highlights
Total awarded	40
First winner	Lester James Peries
Last winner	Lav Diaz Praveen Kandregula

Recipients

IFFI Special Jury Award (1969–Present)

List of Silver Peacock award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)

Year	Recipient(s)	Work(s)	Language(s)	Ref.
1969 (4th)	Lester James Peries Mrinal Sen Sobhan Babu	"Golu Hadawatha" "Bhuvan Shome" "Bangaru Panjaram"	Sinhala Bengali Telugu	^[8]
1998 (29th)	Santwana Bardoloi	"Adajya"	Assamese	^[9]^[4]
2000 (31st)	Huo Jianqi	"Postmen in the Mountains"	Mandarin	^[10]
2002 (33rd)	Revathi Magdy Ahmed Aly	"Mitr, My Friend" "Asrar EL-Banat"	Hindi Egyptian	^[11]
2003 (34th)	Subhadro Chowdhury	"Prohor"	Bengali	^[12]
2004 (35th)	Gennady Sidorov	"Old Women"	Russian	^[13]^[14]
2005 (36th)	Tom Hooper	"Red Dust"	English (South Africa)	^[15]
2006 (37th)	Abu Sayeed	"Nirontor"	Bengali (Bangladesh)	^[16]
2007 (38th)	Golam Rabanny Biplab Julia Urbini	"On The Wings of Dreams" (Bangladesh) "More Than Anything in the World"	Bengali Mexican	^[17]^[18]
2008 (39th)	Malani Fonseka	"Akasa Kusum"	Sinhala	^[19]
2009 (40th)	Giorgi Ovashvili	"The Other Bank" (Georgia)	Russian	^[20]
2010 (41st)	Kaushik Ganguly Taika Waititi	"Arekti Premer Golpo" "Boy"	Bengali English	^[20]
2011 (42nd)	Salim Ahamed	"Adaminte Makan Abu"	Malayalam	^[21]
2012 (43rd)	Lucy Mulloy	"Una noche"	Spanish	^[22]
2013 (44th)	Onur Ünlü	"Thou Gild'st the Even"	Turkey	^[23]
2015 (46th)	Julia Vargas-Weise	"Sealed Cargo"	Spanish	^[24]
2016 (47th)	Lee Joon-ik	"The Throne"	Korean	^[25]
2017 (48th)	Mahesh Narayanan	"Take Off"	Malayalam	^[26]
2018 (49th)	Milko Lazarov	"Ága"	Yakut	^[27]
2019 (50th)	Pema Tseden	"Balloon"	Chinese	^[28]
2020 (51st)	Kamen Kalev	"February"	Bulgarian	^[29]
2021 (52nd)	Renata Carvalho Nikhil Mahajan	"The First Fallen" "Godavari"	Brazilian Marathi	^[30]
2022 (53rd)	Lav Diaz	"When The Waves Are Gone"	Filipino	^[31]

Recipients

IFFI Special Mention (2015–Present)

List of Special Mention recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)

Year	Recipient(s)	Work(s)	Language(s)	Ref.
2015 (46th)	Goran Radovaovic	"Enclave"	Serbian	^[32]
2016 (47th)	Tiffany Hsiung	"The Apology"	English	^[25]
2018 (49th)	Chezhiyan	"To Let"	Tamil	^[33]
2019 (50th)	Abhishek Shah	"Hellaro"	Gujarati	^[34]
2020 (51st)	Kripal Kalita	"Bridge"	Assamese	^[35]
2021 (52nd)	Simon Farriol Roman Vasyanov	"The Wealth of the World" "The Dorm"	English Russian	^[36]
2022 (53rd)	Praveen Kandregula	"Cinema Bandi"	Telugu	^[31]

IFFI Centenary Award (2012–2014)

List of Centenary Award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)

Year	Recipient(s)	Work(s)	Language(s)	Ref.
2012 (43rd)	Mira Nair	"The Reluctant Fundamentalist"	English	^[37]
2013 (44th)	Kamaleshwar Mukherjee	"Meghe Dhaka Tara"	Bengali	^[38]
2014 (45th)	Shrihari Sathe	"Ek Hazarachi Note"	Marathi	^[39]

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