Hellenic Film Academy Awards


Hellenic Film Academy Awards or Hellenic Iris Awards are a set of awards given annually by the Hellenic Film Academy for excellence of cinematic achievements in Greek cinema, replacing the abolished Greek State Film Awards. On May 3, 2010 the first awards ceremony was presented at the Athens Concert Hall. So far, the most awards has won the film and follow the films Knifer and Little England with Xenia. Since 2016 the awards renamed to Iris Awards.

Hellenic Film Awards

Best Film

Best Director

Best Screenwriter

SeasonBest Screenwriter
2010Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos for Dogtooth
2011Yannis Economides for Knifer
2012Yorgos Gikapeppas for The City of Children
2013Thanos Anastasopoulos for The Daughter
2014Giannis Tsiros for The Enemy Within
2015Panagiotis Evangelidis and Panos H. Koutras for Xenia
2016Athina Rachel Tsangari for Chevalier
2017Argiris Papadimitropoulos & Syllas Tzoumerkas for Suntan
2018Elina Psykou for Son of Sofia
2019Marios Piperides for Smuggling Hendrix

Best Actor

SeasonBest Actor
2010Antonis Kafetzopoulos for '
2011 for Ap' ta kokkala vgalmena
2012Antonis Kafetzopoulos for Unfair World
2013Yannis Papadopoulos for Boy Eating the Bird's Food
2014Themis Panou for Miss Violence
2015Vangelis Mourikis for Stratos
2016Stelios Mainas for '
2017Makis Papadimitriou for Suntan
2018Andreas Konstantinou for The Last Note

Best Actress

SeasonBest Actress
2010Mina Orfanou for Strella
2011Ariane Labed for Attenberg
2012Kika Georgiou for The City of Children
2013Amalia Moutoussi for Hara
2014Kora Karvouni for September
2015Maria Kallimani for Sto Spiti
2016Evangelia Andreadaki for Smac
2017Sofia Kokkali for Nima
2018Katia Gkoulioni for Polyxeni

Best Supporting Actor

SeasonBest Supporting Actor
2010Christos Passalis for Dogtooth
2011 for Ap' ta kokkala vgalmena
2012Christos Stergioglou for Unfair World
2013Ieronimos Kaletsanos for J.A.C.E
2014Nikos Georgakis for Standing Aside Watching
2015Angelos Papadimitriou for Xenia
2016Minas Hatzisavvas for Worlds Apart
2017Themis Panou for Notias
2018Thanasis Papageorgiou for Son of Sofia

Best Supporting Actress

SeasonBest Supporting Actress
2010Anna Mascha for Chrisoskoni
2011Ioanna Tsirigouli for Homeland
2012 for Paradise
2013Kora Karvouni for J.A.C.E
2014Reni Pittaki for Miss Violence
2015 for Stratos
2016Vassiliki Troufakou for Ouzeri Tsitsanis
2017Elli Trygou for Suntan
2018Lydia Photopouloui for Polyxeni

Best Cinematography

SeasonBest Cinematography
2010Marcus Waterloo for Black Field
2011Dimitris Katsaitis for Knifer
2012Angelos Viskadourakis and Yorgos Argyroiliopoulos for Man at Sea
2013Ilias Adamis for The Daughter
2014Simos Sakertzis for Little England
2015Kostas Gkikas for Forever
2016Kostas karamanis for
2017Kostas karamanis for Suntan

Best Music

SeasonBest Music
2010Giannis Aggelakas for Psyhi Vathia
2011drog_A_tek for Homeland
2012Yannis Aiolou for Christmas Tango
2013Stavros Gasparatos for Aima
2014Alexander Voulgaris for The Sentimentalists
2015Babis Papadopoulos for Stratos and Yannis Veslemes for Norvigia
2016Yannis Veslames for
2017Drog A Tec for To xipnima tis anoixis

Best Editing

SeasonBest Editing
2010Yorgos Mavropsaridis for Dogtooth
2011Yannis Halkiadakis for Knifer, Ioanna Spiliopoulou for Ap' ta kokkala vgalmena, Panos Voutsaras for Homeland
2012Yannis Halkiadakis for Wasted Youth
2013Stella Fillipopoulou for An... and Takis Yannopoulos, Panos Daoultzis & Lambis Haralambidis for J.A.C.E
2014Giorgos Mavropsaridis for The Enemy Within
2015Yorgos Lamprinos for Xenia
2016Lampis Haralabidis for
2017Yannis Sakaridies for America Square

Best Production Design

SeasonBest Production Design
2010Pinelopi Valti for Strella
2011Ioulia Stavridou for Knifer
2012Giorgos Georgiou for Christmas Tango
2013Ilias Ledakis for J.A.C.E
2014Adonis Dagklidis for Little England
2015Yannis Veslemes for Norvigia
2016Spyros Laskaris for
2017Spyros Laskaris for Notias

Best Costumes Design

SeasonBest Costumes Design
2010Vassilis Barbarigos for Strella
2011Giorgos Georgiou for Taxidi sti Mytilini
2012Giorgos Georgiou for Christmas Tango
2013Despina Himona for J.A.C.E
2014Gioula Zoiopoulou for Little England
2015Vassilis Barbarigos for Xenia
2016Anna Mahairianaki for Ouzeri Tsitsanis
2017Gioula Zoiopoulo for I Roza tis Smyrnis

Best Sound

SeasonBest Sound
2010Stefanos Efthymiou, Dimitris Voutsas, Panos Voutsaras, Costas Varybopiotis for Psyhi Vathia
2011Dinos Kittou, Costas Fylaktidis for Knifer
2012Aris Louziotis, Alexandros Sidiropoulos, Panos Voutsaras, Costas Varybopiotis for Paradise
2013Marinos Athanassopoulos, Aris Louziotis, Alexandros Sidiropoulos, Costas Varybopiotis for An...
2014Stefanos Efthimiou, Kostas Varimpopiotis, Takis Giannopoulos for Little England
2015Ntinos Kittou, William Frank, Kostas Fylaktisid for Stratos
2016Aris Athanasopoulos, Gil Toren, Avi Mizrahie for
2017Stefanos Efthimiou, Kostas Varimpopiotis, Persefoni Miliou, Valia Tserou for Park

Best Make-up

SeasonBest Make-up
2010Apollonia B., Mary Stavrakaki Strella
2011Evi Zafiropoulou for Homeland
2012Katerina Varthalitou for To Gala
2013Yannis Pamoukis for J.A.C.E
2014Efi Zafeiropoulou for Little England
2015Dora Nazou for Norvigia
2016Nabil Salame for Ouzeri Tsitsanis
2017Katerina Varthalitou for Notias

Best Special & Visual Effects

SeasonBest Special & Visual Effects
2010Petros Nousias for To Kako stin Epohi ton Iroon
2011Nikos Moutselos for I Ypografi
2012Yorgos Alahouzos, Argyris Alahouzos for The City of Children
2013Vassilis Andriopoulos, Yorgos Alahouzos, Argyris Alahouzos, Yannis Vamvakas, Dimitris Gerpinis for Demeni, Kokkini Klosti
2014Aggelos Spartalis for From the Earth to the Moon
2015Roulis Alahouzos, Ionas Katrazanos, Phokion Xenos for Norvigia
2016Roulis Alahouzos, Ippokratis Halas for
2017Yorgos Alahouzos, Argyris Alahouzos for ''The Other Me

Best First Film director

SeasonBest First Film Director
2010Argyris Papadimitropoulos for Bank Bang
2011Syllas Tzoumerkas for Homeland
2012Elias Demetriou for Fish n' Chips
2013Ektoras Lygizos for Boy Eating the Bird's Food
2014Elina Psykou for The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas
2015Yannis Veslemes for Norvigia
2016Evangelia Kranioti for Exotica, Erotica etc and Giorgos Zois for Interruption
2017Sofia Exarchou for Park

Best Documentary Film

SeasonBest Documentary Film
2010Allos Dromos Den Ypirhe by Stavros Psyllakis
2011Ta Paidia Paizei by Rea Apostolidou, Yuri Averov
2012Raw Material by
2013Imerologia Amnisias by Stella Theodoraki
2014Glow in the Dark by Panagiotis Evaggelidis
2015Mia Oikogeneiaki Ypothesi by Angeliki Aristomenopoulou
2016Evangelia Kranioti for Exotica, Erotica etc

Best Short Film

SeasonBest Short Film
2010And Me for Myself by Georgis Grigorakis
2011Casus Belli by Yorgos Zois
2012My Dad, Lenin and Freddy by Rinio Dragassaki
2013Chamomile by Neritan Zinxhiria
2014Washingtonia By Konstantina Kotzamani
2015Volta by Stella Kyriakopoulou
2016Fig by Nicolas Kolovos