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. It was first presented during the 4th IFFI 1969. The award was later re-instated since 29th IFFI 1998. On the occasion of 100 years of Indian cinema, centenary awards were conferred during 2012, 2013, and 2014. The special mention is being awarded since the 46th IFFI 2015.
List of recipients of IFFI Special Jury Award +List of Silver Peacock award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)YearRecipient(s)Work(s)Language(s)Country 1969Lester James Peries Golu Hadawatha SinhalaSri Lanka Mrinal SenBhuvan ShomeHindiIndiaSobhan BabuBangaru PanjaramTeluguIndia 1998Santwana Bardoloi Adajya AssameseIndia 2000Huo Jianqi Postmen in the Mountains MandarinChina 2002Revathi Mitr, My Friend HindiIndia Magdy Ahmed AliAsrar EL-BanatEgyptianEgypt 2003Subhadro Chowdhury Prohor BengaliIndia 2004Gennady SidorovOld Women RussianRussia 2005Tom Hooper Red Dust EnglishSouth Africathehindu.com 2006Abu Sayeed Nirontor BengaliBangladesh 2007 Golam Rabanny Biplab On The Wings of Dreams BengaliBangladesh Julia UrbiniMore Than Anything in the WorldMexicanMexico 2008Malani Fonseka Akasa Kusum SinhalaSri Lanka 2009Giorgi Ovashvili The Other Bank RussianGeorgia 2010Kaushik Ganguly Arekti Premer Golpo BengaliIndiaTaika WaititiBoyEnglishNew Zealand 2011Salim Ahamed Adaminte Makan Abu MalayalamIndia 2012 Lucy Mulloy Una noche SpanishCubaUnited Kingdom 2013 Onur Ünlü Thou Gild'st the EvenTurkishTurkey 2015Julia Vargas-Weise Sealed Cargo SpanishBolivia 2016 Lee Joon-ik The Throne KoreanSouth Korea 2017Mahesh Narayanan Take Off MalayalamIndia 2018 Milko Lazarov Ága YakutBulgaria 2019 Pema Tseden Balloon ChineseChina 2020Kamen Kalev February BulgarianBulgaria 2021 Renata Carvalho The First Fallen BrazilianBrazilNikhil MahajanGodavariMarathiIndia 2022Lav Diaz When The Waves Are Gone FilipinoPhilippines 2023 Rishab Shetty Kantara KannadaIndia 2024 Louise Courvoisier Holy Cow French France 2025 Akinola Davies Jr. My Father's Shadow English, Naija, Yoruba United Kingdom, Ireland, Nigeria
List of recipients of IFFI Special Mention +List of Special Mention recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)YearRecipient(s)Work(s)Language(s)Country 2015Goran Radovaovic Enclave SerbianGermanySerbia 2016Tiffany Hsiung The Apology EnglishCanada 2018Chezhiyan To Let TamilIndia 2019 Abhishek Shah Hellaro GujaratiIndia 2020 Kripal Kalita Bridge AssameseIndia 2021Simon Farriol The Wealth of the World EnglishRoman VasyanovThe DormRussianRussia 2022Praveen Kandregula Cinema Bandi TeluguIndia
List of recipients of IFFI Centenary Award +List of Centenary Award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)YearRecipient(s)Work(s)Language(s)Country 2012 Mira Nair The Reluctant Fundamentalist EnglishUnited StatesIndiaQatar 2013 Kamaleshwar Mukherjee Meghe Dhaka TaraBengaliIndia 2014Shrihari Sathe Ek Hazarachi Note MarathiIndia
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