Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion


The Silver Medallion is an award given by the Telluride Film Festival in recognition of achievements in the film industry.

History of the Silver Medallion

The first Silver Medallions were awarded in 1974 at the 1st Telluride Film Festival. They are made of pure silver and the design has never changed, featuring the emblematic "SHOW" logo on their face. The presentation of the medallion is preceded by a clip reel, full feature and/or on stage interview. Traditionally, three Silver Medallions are given out each year, with a few exceptions where numerous people from a specific category were paid the honor. Since 1995, a fourth Silver Medallions has been awarded to a hero of cinema, a filmmaker, historian, critic, or organization dedicated to the celebration and preservation of film as an art.

Honorees

  1. 1974 – Gloria Swanson, Francis Ford Coppola, Leni Riefenstahl
  2. 1975 – Henry King, Werner Herzog, Jack Nicholson
  3. 1976 – Chuck Jones, King Kong, King Vidor
  4. 1977 – Michael Powell, Agnès Varda, Benjamin Carré
  5. 1978 – Hal Roach, Sterling Hayden, Czechoslovak New Wave
  6. 1979 – Abel Gance, Robert Wise, Klaus Kinski
  7. 1980 – Robert Altman, Maurice Pialat, Karl Struss
  8. 1981 – The Character Actor, Carlos Diegues, Dušan Makavejev
  9. 1982 – Joel McCrea, Pierre Braunberger, Athol Fugard
  10. 1983 – Luis Trenker, Andrei Tarkovsky, Richard Widmark
  11. 1984 – Henry Hathaway, Andrzej Wajda, Janet Leigh
  12. 1985 – Emilio Fernández, Hanna Schygulla, Alexandre Trauner
  13. 1986 – Alexander Mackendrick, Jiří Menzel, Isabelle Huppert
  14. 1987 – Don Siegel, Stephen Frears, Tengiz Abuladze
  15. 1988 – Pedro Almodóvar, Cab Calloway, Xi'an Film Studio
  16. 1989 – Peter Greenaway, Dennis Potter, Shohei Imamura
  17. 1990 – Gérard Depardieu, John Berry, Clint Eastwood
  18. 1991 – Nature's Filmmakers, Jodie Foster, Sven Nykvist
  19. 1992 – Elmer Bernstein, Cy Endfield, Harvey Keitel
  20. 1993 – Ken Loach, John Alton, Jennifer Jason Leigh
  21. 1994 – Judy Davis, Ken Burns, Harriet Andersson
  22. 1995 – John Schlesinger, Zhang Yimou, The Surrealists, Andrew Sarris
  23. 1996 – Shirley MacLaine, Mike Leigh, Alain Cavalier, Roger Mayer
  24. 1997 – Horton Foote, Neil Jordan, Alexander Sokurov, Facets Multi-Media
  25. 1998 – Meryl Streep, Vittorio Storaro, Susumu Hani, Stanley Kauffmann
  26. 1999 – Catherine Deneuve, David Lynch, Philip Glass, Arena
  27. 2000 – Ang Lee, Stellan Skarsgård, Im Kwon-taek, Serge Silberman
  28. 2001 – Catherine Breillat, Om Puri, Ken Russell, HBO
  29. 2002 – Peter O'Toole, Paul Schrader, D. A. Pennebaker, Positif
  30. 2003 – Peter Brook, Toni Collette, Krzysztof Zanussi, Ted Turner
  31. 2004 – Laura Linney, Jean-Claude Carrière, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Fred Roos
  32. 2005 – Mickey Rooney, The Dardennes brothers, Charlotte Rampling, The Criterion Collection, Janus Films
  33. 2006 – Walter Murch, Penélope Cruz, Rolf de Heer, David Thomson
  34. 2007 – Daniel Day-Lewis, Michel Legrand, Shyam Benegal, Leonard Maltin
  35. 2008 – David Fincher, Jean Simmons, Jan Troell
  36. 2009 – Anouk Aimée, Viggo Mortensen, Margarethe von Trotta, Serge Bromberg
  37. 2010 – Claudia Cardinale, Colin Firth, Peter Weir, UCLA Film and Television Archive
  38. 2011 – George Clooney, Pierre Étaix, Tilda Swinton, Sight & Sound
  39. 2012 – Roger Corman, Marion Cotillard, Mads Mikkelsen, C. Chapin Cutler Jr., Boston Light & Sound
  40. 2013 – Robert Redford, The Coen brothers, Mohammad Rasoulof, T Bone Burnett
  41. 2014 – Volker Schlöndorff, Hilary Swank
  42. 2015 – Danny Boyle, Adam Curtis, Rooney Mara
  43. 2016 – Casey Affleck, Amy Adams, Pablo Larraín
  44. 2017 – Christian Bale, Edward Lachman
  45. 2018 – Alfonso Cuarón, Emma Stone, Rithy Panh
  46. 2019 – Adam Driver, Renée Zellweger, Philip Kaufman