Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl took home the Special Jury Prize at the 2024 San Sebastián Film Festival, held in Spain’s Basque Country from Sept. 20 through 28.
“For the high quality of its acting, packed with truth and nuances, which with great subtlety and restraint, brings us closer to the feelings of a group of people who must confront a disappearing profession, a world that is coming to an end,” the jury’s verdict read, per the fete’s press release.
About a veteran Las Vegas showgirl who must switch up her life’s routine following the unexpected closure of her three-decade-long show, the drama features a star-studded cast in Pamela Anderson, Kiernan Shipka, Brenda Song, Billie Lourd, Dave Bautista and Jamie Lee Curtis. As Deadline exclusively reported yesterday, The Last Showgirl was just acquired by Roadside Attractions for its North American release.
The Golden Shell for Best Film was awarded to Albert Serra’s Lonely afternoons (Afternoons of Solitude).
Scroll further to see the complete list of honorees at the 72nd edition of the fest:
Golden Shell for Best Film
Lonely afternoons —Albert Serra
Special Jury Prize
The Last Showgirl — Gia Coppola
Silver Shell for Best Director (ex aequo — in a tie)
Laura Carreira — On Falling
Pedro Martín-Calero — The Wailing
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance
Patricia López Arnaiz — The Glimmers
Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
Pierre Lotin — When Fall is Coming
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
Francis Ozon, Philippe Piazzo — When Fall is Coming
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Piao Songri — Bound in Heaven
Kutxabank New Directors Award
Piet Baumgartner — Bagger Drama
Anton Alvarez The flamenco guitar of Yerai Cortés (special mention)
Horizontes Award
Luis Ortega El Jockey (Kill the Jockey)
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
Dea Kulumbegashvili — April
Jessica Sarah Rinland — Collective Monologue (Collective Monologue) (special mention)
Nest the Mediapro Studio Award
José Luis Jiménez Gómez — The Reign of Antoine
Culinary Zinema Award
Paco Plaza Mugaritz Sin pan ni dessert
Basque Label Awards
Borja De Agüero The guardians (First Award)
Jon Martija Leunda — KM 0 (Second Award)
Lotteries Awards
Mikel González Beorlegui — Anton (First Award)
Carlos Fernández de Vigo, Lorena Ares — Cafe (Second Award)
Irizar Basque Film Award
Carmen Chaplin — Chaplin | Spirit of The Tramp
Pello Gutiérrez Peñalba — The replica (special mention)
City of Donostia / San Sebastián Audience Award
En fanfare (The Marching Band) — Emmanuel Courcol
City of Donostia / San Sebastián Audience Award for Best European Film
Daney anjir maabed (The Seed of the Sacred Fig) — Mohammad Rasoulof
Dama Youth Award
Michael Tyburski — Turn Me On
WIP LATAM Industry Award
Daniel Hendler — A loose end (A Loose End)
Egeda Platino Industria Award for the Best WIP LATAM
Nayra Ilic — Celestial Body
WIP Europa Industry Award
Sarah Miro Fischer — Bruises (Blue Marks) (working title)
WIP Europa Award
Sarah Miro Fischer — Bruises (Blue Marks) (working title)
XIII Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum Best Project Award
Francisco Lezama The Two Landscapes
DALE! Award (Development Latin America-Europe)
Francisco Lezama The Two Landscapes
Artekino International Prize
Mariana Saffon — cam sea
Sideral Award
Maria Elorza Deias — Dear Bastiano (Dear Bastiano)
Casa Wabi-ESCINE Award
Mikele Landa Eiguren — Send
ZINEMALDIA STARTUP CHALLENGE AWARD
Best European Project
Sonic Alchemist — Lithuania
Best Spanish Project
Dubme
Current Anima (special mention)
Best Entrepreneurial Project
Kaspar K1 — Denmark
XX LAU HAIZETARA DOCUMENTARY CO-PRODUCTION FORUM AWARDS
Music Library Award
The night of childhood — Xixi Sofia Ye Chen
Dogwoof Award
Barabbas — Daniel Martínez-Quintanilla
EPE-IBAIA-ELKARGI Award
Barabbas — Daniel Martínez-Quintanilla
RTVE — Another Look Award
Payal Kapadia — All We Imagine as Light
Laura Carreira — On Falling (special mention)
Spanish Cooperation Award
Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez — Dirty
Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award
Iciar Bollaín — Soy Nevenka (I Am Nevenka)
World Ayaso Award
Celia Rico Clavellino — Little Loves
HONORARY AWARDS
Donostia Awards
Cate Blanchett, Pedro Almodóvar
Zinemira Award
Elena Irureta
Fipresci Award
Huo Xin — Bound in Heaven
Feroz Film Festival 2024 Award
Lonely afternoons —Albert Serra
Basque Screenwriters Association Award
Víctor Erice, Michel Gaztambide — Close your eyes
Sebastiane 2024 Award
Lola Arias — Reas
Lurra — Greenpeace Award
Chris Sanders — The Wild Robot
Signis Award
Pilar Palomero The Glimmers
ATHENO GUIPUZCOANO AWARDS
Lonely afternoons —Albert Serra
