UBFM'S AWADRS 1975 - 2002
2000-2002
The award for contribution to film art - TODOR DINOV
Best feature film - “EMIGRANTS”, directors Ivaylo CCCCHRISTOV and Ludmil Todorov, producer "Pastor ET - Mitko Todorov"
Best documentary - “BORN WITH THE CENTURY”, director Eldora Traykova, producer "Profilm EOOD"
Best animation - “THE MOON WITH BLUE EYES”, director Pencho Kunchev, producer "Boyana film"
Best director of feature film – IVAN PAVLOV for "Fate As Rat"
Best director of documentary - ELDORA TRAYKOVA for "Born With the Century" and "Diagnose"
Best screenplay - DIMITAR PETKOV for "The Devil's Tail"
Best cinematography of feature film - CHRISTO BAKALOV for "The Devil's Tail"
Best cinematography of short documentary - IVAN VARIMEZOV for "The Name Of My Wind", "Gena - The Arena's Voice"
Best actor – DEYAN DONKOV in "Emigrants"
Best actress - SVETLANA YANCHEVA in “Warming Up The Yesterday Dinner", “Letter to America”, “Fate As Ratt”, “Last Cinema”
Best art director - GEORGY TODOROV for "Battue for wolves", “Warming up the yesterday dinner”, “Last Cinema”, “Rhapsody In White”
Best costume design - MARTA MIRONSKA for "Battue For Wolves”
Best music - BOJIDAR PETKOV for "Battue For Wolves", “A Knocked Down Leaf”, “Fate As Rat", “The "Observer”
Best sound - ALEXANDER SIMEONOV for "The Devil's Tail”, “Boarding House For Dogs”, “Rage”, “Paying Balls”
Best film editing - YORDANKA BUCHVAROVA for "Letter To America"
Best animation - “Evening Spider" and "She", director SVETLINA PETROVA
Best film critic (book) -ALEXANDER YANAKIEV for “The Bulgarian Cinema - Encyclopedia”
Best film critic - ANTONIA KOVACHEVA
1998-1999
The award for contribution to film art - NEVENA KOKANOVA and KOSTA TSONEV
Best feature film – "After The End Of The World", director IVAN NICHEV
Best documentary – “The Endurance of The Stone", director KONSTANTIN BONEV
Best director of feature film - IVAN NICHEV for "After The End Of The World"
Best director of documentary – NIKOLAY VOLEV for “First Aid”
Best cinematography of feature film – GEORGY NIKOLOV for "After The End Of The World"
Best cinematography of documentary – KONSTANTIN ZANKOV for “1934”, “The Endurance of The Stone" and “Longing For New Things”
Best screenplay of documentary – VLADI KIROV for “1934”, “The Outrage” и “Longing For New Things”
Best actor – VASSIL MIHAYLOV for "After The End Of The World"
Best music - STEPHAN DIMITROV for "After The End Of The World"
Best film editing - THEODORA VEPSHEK for "Wagner"
1996-1997
Best feature film – “Late Full Moon”, director EDWARD ZAHARIEV
Best director - EDWARD ZAHARIEV for “Late Full Moon”, feature; KONSTANTIN BONEV for "Under A Cloud", documentary
Best screenplay - ILYA KOSTOV for "Tap-tap"
Best cinematography - CHRISTO TOTEV for "Sulamit", feature; KONSTANTIN ZANKOV for "Under A Cloud", documentary
Best actor - ITSHAK FINTSI for "Late Full Moon" and "From Scratch"
Best actress - MARIA STATULOVA for "Tap-tap"
Best art director - ANASTAS YANAKIEV for "A Talk With Birds" and "Black Swallow"
Best costume design - ISADORA ZAYDNER for "Musketeer With Marathon's shoes", "Uncle"
Best music - ANTONY DONCHEV for "Emilia's Friends"
Best sound - GEORGY KAZANDJIEV and MITKO STEFANOV
Best documentary – "About The People And The Bears", director ELDORA TRAYKOVA
Best educational film – "Return”, director MILAN OGNYANOV
Best film editing - MADLEN RADICHEVA for "The Diary Of A Mad Man"
Best animation – "Sinbad Sea-farer", director GEORGY DIMITROV; PROYKO PROYKOV for contribution to the art of animation
Best film critic (book) - BOJIDAR MANOV for "Theory Of Screen Image"
Best film critic - BORYANA MATEEVA
1995 - AWARDS FOR LIFE ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTION TO BULGARIAN FILM CULTURE IN CONNECTION WITH THE 100 ANNIVERSARY OF CINEMA
RANGEL VULCHANOV, director
VALERY PETROV, dramatist
DIMO KOLAROV, cameraman
MITKO SHTEREV, film composer
MARIA IVANOVA, artist
LIUDMILA MAHALNISHKA, sound director
NEVENA KOKANOVA, actress
APOSTOL KARAMITEV, actor
DONIO DONEV, animation director
TODOR ANREYKOV, film critic
BLAGA MALEVA, film editing
NIKOLA CHONKOV, contribution to Bulgarian cinema
1994-1995
Best feature film – "The Border", directors ILIAN SIMEONOV and CHRISTIAN NOCHEV
Best director - IVAN NICHEV for "Love Dreams"
Best screenplay - KONSTANTIN PAVLOV for "Something In The Air"
Best cinematography - VENETS DIMITROV for "La Donna e Mobile"
Best art director - GEORGY TODOROV for "Rolling Stones"
Best music - TEODOSI SPASOV for "The Border"
Best actor - PETER POPYORDANOV for "The Border"
Best actress - KATIA PASKALEVA for "Rolling Stones" and "Forbiden Fruit"
Best sound - LIUDMILA MAHALNISHKA for "Something In The Air" and "La Donna e Mobile"
Best documentary - "Dum Spiro Spero", director CHRISTO CHRISTOV
Best animation – "Shock", director ZLATIN RADEV
Best film critic - TODOR ANDREYKOV for the books "History of Cinema", "The Comicality on Screen" and "A Hundred and One Comedy of The World Cinema"
Best film editing - VENTSESLAVA KARANESHEVA for "The Goat Horn"
1990-1993
The award for contribution to film art - RANGEL VULCHANOV
Best feature film – "Thou, Which Are On Heaven", director DOCHO BODJAKOV
Best director - RANGEL VULCHANOV for "Love Is A Willful Bird"
Best cinematography – ATANAS TASEV
Best art director - MARIA IVANOVA
Best music - GEORGY GENKOV
Best actor - GEORGY KALOYANCHEV for "Bai Ganyo On His Way To Europe"
Best actress - ELLY SKORCHEVA for "Mme Bovary From Sliven"
Best sound - LIUDMILA MAHALNISHKA
Best documentary - "NEON STORIES", director ELDORA TRAYKOVA
Best animation – "CANFILM", director ZLATIN RUSEV
Best film critic - TODOR ANDREYKOV
Best film editing - ANNA PIPEVA
1989
Best feature film – "MARGARIT AND MARGARITA", director NIKOLAI VOLEV
Best director - KRASIMIR KRUMOV for "Exitus"
Best screenplay - KONSTANTIN PAVLOV for "The Village"
Best cinematography - EMIL CCCCHRISTOV for "I, The Countess"
Best art director - MARIA IVANOVA for "Scar-free" and "Adio RIO"
Best music - KIRIL DONCHEV for "Scar-free"
Best actor - PETER POPYORDANOV
Best actress - SVETLANA YANCHEVA
Best sound - GEORGY KRUSTEV
Best début - "EXITUS", director KRASIMIR KRUMOV, "I, THE COUNTESS", director PETER POPZLATEV
Best documentary – "BREATHE"
Best educational film – "THE AMOEBA", director GEORGY STOEV
Best animation – "THE RAINBOW", director RUMEN PETKOV
Best film critic - TODOR ANDREYKOV and VERA NAYDENOVA
Best film editing - KRISTINA VAZOVA for "The Village" and "Homecoming"
Best costume design - ELENA DEMYAKOVA for "The Carnival"
1988
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - DONIO DONEV for contribution to Bulgarian animation
Special prizes – LIUBOMIR SHARLANDJIEV and BORISLAV PUNCHEV for "The Prosecutor", CHRISTO GANEV, BINKA ZELIAZKOVAand BOGOMIL SIMEONOV for ""Life Flows Slowly By...", NIKOLA TIHOLOV, IRINA AKTASHEVA and CHRISTO PISKOV for "Monday Morning"
Best director - LIUDMIL STAYKOV for "Time Of Violence"
Best screenplay - VASSIL AKIOV for lifetime achievement
Best screenplay - VLADO DAVEROV for "Yesterday"
Best cinematography - DIMO KOLAROV for "Monday Morning"
Best music - GEORGY GENKOV for "Time of Violence"
Best actress - PEPA NIKOLOVA for "Monday Morning"
Best documentary -"VILLAGE WAR", director IVAN MLADENOV; "HE DIDN'T DIE ON WAR", screenplay PETKO GORANOV
Best educational film - "THE PERCEPTION", cameraman EMIL TOPUZOV
Best animation - "ANIMATO", director PENCHO BOGDANOV; "WOLVES's SUITE", animator EMIL BARUHOV
Best film editing - MADLEN DYAKOVA
1987
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - CHRISTO GANEV for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best cinematography - TSVETAN CHOBANSKI for "Longing For The Wide, Wide World"
Best art director - MARIA IVANOVA for "DREAMERS"
Best music - KIRIL DONCHEV for "Friday Evening"
Best actor - IVAN IVANOV for "Dreamers"
Best actress - EMILIA RADEVA for "Home For Our Children"
Best sound - IVAN VENTSESLAVOV
Best documentary - "SATISFACTORY OUTCOME", director VASSIL ZIVKOV; "HOME N 8", director NIKOLAI VOLEV; "BALANCE SHEET", screenplay writers DIMITUR DERELIEV and ASEN VLADIMIROV
Best cinematography of documentary - CHRISTO TS. KOVACHEV for "The meeting is opened"
Best educational film – "STORIES FOR SEA", cameraman STEFAN TODOROV
Best animation - "DEEP INTO THE VISIBLE DARKNESS", director NIKOLAI TODOROV; "MERRY MAN", animation TSENKA KUIUMDJIEVA
Best film for children - "THE THIRTEENTH BRIDE OF THE PRINCE", director IVANKA GRUBCHEVA
1986
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - GEORGY GEORGIEV - GETS for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director - NIKOLAI VOLEV for "All For Love"; RANGEL VULCHANOV for "Where Are You Going"
Best screenplay - HAIM OLIVER for "The Echelons"
Best cinematography - VICTOR CHICHOV for "They Prevailed" and "Steppe People"
Best music - MITKO SHTEREV for "A Cry For Help" and "My Darling, My Darling"
Best actor - VELKO KUNEV for "All For Love"
Best début - "The Soul", director OLEG KOVACHEV
Best documentary - "THREE", director ISKRA YOSIFOVA; "EVERY DAY OF LIFE", director YIRI ZIROV
Best educational film - "TAMING AVALANCHE" and "MY LITTLE HORSES, director KOYIO RADNEV
Best animation - ZDENKA DOYCHEVA for contribution to Bulgarian animated cinema for children
Best film for children - VASKO DE GAMA FROM RUPCHA VILLAGE", director MITKO PETROV, dramatists MORMAREVI BROTHERS
Best film editing - ANI RADICHEVA
Biggest box-office - "WHERE ARE YOU GOING", director RANGEL VULCHANOV
1985
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - YILII STOYANOV for contribution to Bulgarian documentary cinema
Best director - BORISLAV SHARALIEV for "BORIS I"
Best screenplay - ANGEL VAGENSTEIN for "BORIS I"
Best cinematography - VENETS DIMITROV for "BORIS I"
Best art director - MARIA IVANOVA for "BORIS I"
Best actor - NIKOLAI BINEV for "Nights With The Black Horses"
Best actress - KATIA PASKALEVA for "Memory"
Best sound - METODI SHTEREV
Best documentary - "ABOUT NESHKA ROBEVA AND HER GIRLS", director GEORGY DILGEROV, "GENE", director PAVEL VASEV
Best educational film - "MOCKING BIRDS", director KONSTANTIN GROGORIEV; "TO BE OR NOT TO BE", director BOGDAN RUYCHEV
Best animation - "A STORY ABOUT THE ROAD", director ANRI KULEV
Best film critic - IVAILO ZNEPOLSKI for the book "The Film on the Territory of Culture"
Best film critic - ALBERT KOEN
Best film for children - "A HUSBAND FOR MUM", director MARIANA EVSTATIEVA
1984
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - VALERI PETROV for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director - BORISLAV PUNCHEV for "Salvation", CHRISTO CHRISTOV for "Question Time", IVANKA GRUBCHEVA for "In The Name Of People"
Best screenplay - SVOBODA BUCHVAROVA for "I Don't Know, I Didn't Hear, I Didn't See"
Best cinematography - RADOSLAV SPASOV for "Case N 205/1913"
Best art director - PETKO BONCHEV for "Salvation"
Best music - KIRIL DONCHEV for "Case N 205/1913", "It's Nice To See You", "The Wall"
Best actor - KOSTA TSONEV for "Salvation", GEORGY KALOYANCHEV for "It's Nice To See You"
Best sound - ZENI PARLAPANOVA
Best debut - "IT"S NICE TO SEE YOU", director ANNA PETKOVA; "THE WALL", director EMIL TSANEV
Best documentary - "TETEVENSKA str. 24", director MALINA PETROVA, "EINSTEIN", director VASSIL SHOPOV
Best educational film - "COLORS TRAPS", director LIUBEN TSOLOV
Best animation - "SINGING COWBOYS", director PROYKO PROYKOV
Best film critic - ALBERT KOEN for the book "Gleams From The Screen", NEDA STANIMIROVA for the book "Bulgarian Film Directors"
Best film critic - EMIL PETROV
Best film editing - DANKA NAYDENOVA
1983
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - PAVEL VEZINOV for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director - LIUDMIL KIRKOV for "Balance"
Best cinematography - PLAMEN SOMOV for "Destiny"
Best music - SIMEON PIRONKOV
Best actor - PETER SLABAKOV for "Golden River"
Best actress - IREN KRIVOSHIEVA for "Hotel Central"
Best documentary - "NATIONAL COMPETITION" and "DOSTOYNO EST", director ANDREI ALTUPARMAKOV, dramatist VELISLAVA DUREVA
Best educational film - "THE ACROPOLIS", director ZESKO DAVIDOV, cameraman CHRISTO IVANOV
Best animation - PENCHO BOGDANOV
Best film critic - KRAIMIRA GERCHEVA for the book "The Phenomenon Bulgarian Animation"
Best film critic - TODOR ANDREYKOV
Best film editing - ZENI RADEVA
1982
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - CHRISTO KOVACHEV for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director - BORISLAV SHARALIEV for "The Thrust"
Best screenplay - DRAGIMIR ASENOV for "The Worst Sin"
Best cinematography - VICTOR CHICHOV for "White Magic"
Best art director - KONSTANTIN RUSAKOV for "The Warning" and "24 Hours Rain"
Best music – BORIS KARADIMCHEV for "A Nameless Band" and "A Dog In A Drawer"
Best actor - PETER GIUROV for "The Warning", STEFAN MAVRODIEV for "24 Hours Rain" and "A Meeting Of The Powers"
Best actress - KUNKA BAEVA for "White Magic"
Best sound - MIHAIL KARIDOV
Best debut - "ELEGY", dramatist ALEXANDER TOMOV
Best documentary - "In Addition The Biography Of GEORGY DIMITROV", director YULI STOYANOV
Best educational film - "The Coleopterous", director KONSTANTIN GRIGORIEV
Best animation - RADKA BUCHVAROVA
Best film critic - VLADIMIR IGNATOVSKI for the book "The Cinema Decade"
Best film critic - YAKO MOLHOV
Best film for children - "A Dog In A Drawer", director DIMITUR PETROV, dramatist RADA MOSKOVA
Best film editing -VENTSESLAVA KARANESHEVA
Biggest box-office - "THE RACKET", director NIKOLA RUDAROV, dramatist VLADIMIR GANEV
1981
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - ZAHARI ZANDOV for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director - LIUDMIL STAYKOV for "Khan Asparoukh"; GEORGY DULGEROV for "Measure For Measure", "YO-HO-HO", director ZAKO HESKIA
Best screenplay - VALERI PETROV for "Yo-ho-ho"
Best cinematography - BORIS YANAKIEV for "Khan Asparoukh"
Best art director - ATANAS VELYANOV for "The Queen Of Turnovo"
Best music - KIRIL DONCHEV for "Yo-ho-ho"
Best actor - VASSIL MIHAYLOV for "Captain Petko Voivode" and "Khan Asparoukh"
Best actress - PLAMENA GETOVA for "A Hoe For Gentle Souls"
Best sound - KUZMAN SHOPOV, LIUDMILA MAHALNISHKA
Best debut - STOYKO PEEV, actor, for "Khan Asparoukh"
Best documentary - "A MAN ONE OF US", director CHRISTO KOVACHEV
Best educational film - "INTER COSMOS" and "BULGARIA 1300", director DIMITUR KITANOV
Best animation - "INFANT PRODIGY", director IVAN VESELINOV
Best film critic - EMIL PETROV for the book "The Uplift"
Best film critic - ISKRA DIMITROVA, GRIGOR CHERNEV
Best film editing - BLAGA MALEVA
Best costume design - MARIA SOTIROVA for "Measure For Measure"
1980
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - LIUBOMIR SHARLANDJIEV for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director - LIUDMIL STAYKOV for "Illusion"
Best screenplay - KONSTANTIN PAVLOV for "Illusion"
Best cinematography - PLAMEN VAGENSTEIN for "The Big Night Bathe"
Best art director - MARI-TEREZ GOSPODINOVA for "The Big Night Bathe"
Best music - GEORGY GENKOV
Best actor - GRIGOR VACHKOV, RUSI CHANEV
Best actress - LEDA TASEVA for "The Window"
Best sound - GEORGY KRUSTEV
Best debut- NIKOLAI VOLEV for "The Double"
Best documentary – "TEMPORARY" and "THE DRUM IS A BIG MUSIC", director NIKOLA KOVACHEV, "STORIES ABOUT THE SEA" and "ABOUT PEOPLE AND FISHES", director AVRAM IGNATOV
Best educational film - "MEMORIES ABOUT YORDAN YOVKOV", director YANUSH VAZOV; "1253 PER 1 DAY", director PANCHO TSANKOV
Best animation - "PASTORAL", director SLAV BAKALOV
Best film critic - IVAYLO ZNEPOLSKI for the book "The Cinema Process"
Best film critic - LILYANA CHERNOKOLEVA
Best film editing - ANA MANOLOVA - PIPEVA
1979
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - RANGEL VULCHANOV for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director - ZAKO HESKIA for "Alone Among Wolves"
Best screenplay- BOYAN PAPAZOV for "All Is Love"
Best cinematography - ATANAS TASEV for "The Barrier"
Best art director - GEORGY TODOROV for "Unknown Soldier's Patent Leather"
Best music - KIRIL TSIBULKA for "The Barrier"
Best actor- BORIS LUKANOV for "Alone Among Wolves"
Best actress - VANIA TSVETKOVA for "The Barrier"
Best sound - MITHEN ANDREEV
Best debut - ELI SKORCHEVA, actress, for "Adaptation" and IVAN IVANOV, actor, for "All Is Love"
Best documentary - "JOSE SANCHA", directors OSKAR KRISTANOV and PAVEL VASEV
Best educational film - "STRONGER THAN WAVES", director KONSTANTIN KOSTOV
Best animation - DONIO DONEV
Best film for children - "THE PORCUPINES' WAR", director IVANKA GRUBCHEVA, dramatists MORMAREVI BROTHERS
Best film editing - KATIA VASILEVA
1978
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - BORISLAV SHARALIEV for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director - GEORGY STOYANOV for "Panteley"
Best cinematography - EMIL VAGENSTEIN for "Hark To The Cock"
Best art director - MARIA IVANOVA for "Julia Vrevska"
Best documentary - "TEACHERS", director NEVENA TOSHEVA
Best educational film - "BLACK HOLES IN COSMOS", director KONSTANTIN OBRESHKOV
Best animation - "FEBRUARY", director STOYAN DUKOV
Best comedy - "WARMTH", director VLADIMIR YANCHEV
Best film editing - ELENA DIMITROVA
1977
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - MARGARIT NIKOLOV, NIKOLAI CCHRISTOZOV for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director – BINKA ZELYAZKOVA for "The Swimming Pool", GEORGY DULGEROV for "Advantage"
Best cinematography - RADOSLAV SPASOV for "Advantage" and "Manly Times"
Best actor - KOSTA TSONEV for "A Year Of Mondays" and "The Swimming Pool"
Best documentary - "AGRONOMISTS", director CHRISTO KOVACHEV
Best animation - "HYPOTHESIS", director ANRI KULEV
1976
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - NEVENA KOKANOVA for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director - LIUDMIL STAYKOV for "Amendment To The Defence-of-State Act"
Best screenplay- ANGEL VAGENSTEIN for "Amendment To The Defence-of-State Act"
Best cinematography - VENETS DIMITROV for "The Cyclops"
Best art director - STEFAN SAVOV for "The Final Battle"
Best debut - STOYAN STOEV, ANTONI GENOV, RADKO DISHLIEW, actors, for "The Apostles"
Best documentary - "ZAHARI STOYANOV", director YILI STOYANOV
Best film critic - ALBERT KOEN for the book "A Voice From The Dark Hall"
1975
Grand Prix "Golden Camera" - TODOR DINOV for contribution to Bulgarian cinema
Best director - VULO RADEV for "Doomed Souls", RANGEL VULCHANOV for "The Investigating Magistrate And The Forest"
Best screenplay - GEORGY MISHEV for "Villa Zone"
Best documentary - "THE TEACHER" and "SOFIA OF THE FUTURE, director NEVENA TOSHEVA
Best educational film - "ARROWS OVER THE WATER", directors KONSTANTIN GRIGORIEV and TSVETANA NAYDENOVA
