"Family Evening" in a circle of filmmakers: in Moscow called the winners of the "Nika" award

In the Moscow theater “Russian song” the awarding of the winners of the national film award “Nika” took place.

The evening began with the performance of the artistic director of the award Yuli Gusman, who promised the audience "a quiet family evening." Actor Nikita Efremov followed him onto the stage - instead of his father, who was busy in the theater that day, he read Dmitry Bykov's poems.

The special representative of the President of Russia for international cultural cooperation, Mikhail Shvydkoi, read out the greeting of Vladimir Putin to those present. In it, the head of state noted that those sitting in the hall are united by a sincere love for their work, a desire to make a personal contribution to the development of national cinema and respect for famous masters.

“I am sure that this ceremony will be a real celebration of creativity and companionship, and the cherished Nika will be presented to the best of the best. After all, the high appreciation of colleagues in the workshop is a convincing testimony to the outstanding talent of the laureates, their desire for professional heights, ”the telegram reads, also published on the Kremlin website.

Award Winners

In the main nomination - “The Best Film” - Alexey Fedorchenko’s “Anna War” received the prize, in January 2019 also received the Golden Eagle film award. The film tells about a Jewish girl who survived after a mass execution and hid in a chimney for two years in the German commandant's office.

She played the role of Anna Martha Kozlova in the nomination “The Best Female Role”. A similar men's award was presented to two people at once: Evgeny Tsyganov, who played in the drama of Natalia Merkulova and Alexei Chupov “The Man Who Surprised Everyone”, and Alexey Serebryakov (“Van Gogi”).

The statuette for supporting roles was also divided by the actors who starred in these two films: Yuri Kuznetsov (“The Man Who Surprised Everyone”) and Elena Koreneva (“Van Gogi”).

Kirill Serebrennikov won the nomination "Best Director" for the drama "Summer", which about a year ago got into the main competition of the 71st Cannes Film Festival. The prize instead of Serebrennikov, who is currently under house arrest, received the producer picture Ilya Stewart.

“Nika” for the best screenplay was awarded to Avdotya Smirnova, Anna Parmas and Pavel Basinsky, who worked together on the “Story of one appointment” tape.

Special prize "Nicky" with the wording "For creative achievements in the art of television cinema" received the series "House arrest".

“My wife and I watched without stopping, they threatened the entire vacation,” Mikhail Fedotov, chairman of the presidential Human Rights Council, who rewarded its creators, praised the series.

Artists from “Home arrest” Anna Ukolova and Alexander Robak, in turn, presented the award in the nomination “Discovery of the Year” to musician Roman Bilyk (Roma the Beast), who performed the role of Mike Naumenko in “Summer” by Serebrennikov.

Georgian director Otar Ioseliani was awarded the honorary prize in the nomination "Honor and Dignity."

The 85-year-old Ioseliani is known to viewers from the films “Leaf Fall”, “Butterfly Hunt”, “Truth in Wine”, “Lived Song Thrush” and many others.

The best film of the CIS countries, Georgia and the Baltic became "Crystal" Darya Zhuk (Belarus). The best non-fiction painting is the work of Andrey Osipov “Paradjanov. Tarkovsky. Antipenko. Chiaroscuro ", and animation -" You know, Mom, where have I been? " Levana Gabriadze. The statuette for the best cinematography was awarded to Yuri Klimenko (“Van Gogi”).

Award History

The Nika Professional Cinema Award was established in 1987 by members of the Secretariat of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR as an analogue of the prestigious American Academy Award. The initiators of the creation of the award were made by Yuli Gusman and Viktor Merezhko.

Initially, candidates for the award were determined by free voting, in which all representatives of the Union of Cinematographers participated. Later, the scheme was changed, and the winners were chosen by secret ballot: only members of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts could take part in it.

Prize winners are awarded a bronze statuette of the goddess of victory Nike. The look of the gilded winged figure was created by sculptor Sergei Mikulsky.

The number of nicknames has changed over the course of 32 years. At various times, documentary and non-fiction films claimed separately for the award. In 2003, the nomination “The Best Film of the CIS and Baltic States” was established.

The absolute champions in terms of the number of Nika awards are three films, Taurus, Horde and It Is Hard to Be God, each of which received seven statuettes. In turn, Horde single-handedly heads the list with the largest number of nominations for Nika - there are 11 of them in its account.

Among filmmakers, the most awards from director Alexander Sokurov - he received six statuettes. Five figurines marked the work of cinematographer Yuri Klimenko and screenwriter Yuri Arabov.

At the last 31st award ceremony the evening's victor was Boris Khlebnikov’s painting “Arrhythmia”. The film was awarded awards in five categories - for the best feature film, directorial work, screenplay, as well as for the best male and female roles (Alexander Yatsenko and Irina Gorbacheva).