Film Award “Nika” awarded in Moscow – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, April 2 – RIA Novosti Film Award “Nika” awarded in Moscow, director Alexander Mindadze received the Grand Prix for the film “Dear Hans, Dear Peter,” and the award for “Best screenwriter. “.

The ceremony was held on Friday in a Moscow theater folklore” Russian song “.

The official representative of the President for international cultural cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoi, opening ceremony, read out a congratulatory telegram from Vladimir Putin, in which the President paid tribute to Russian filmmakers, receiving well-deserved high awards at international film festivals.

President of “Nicky”, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky in his speech stressed that “cinema is alive as long as there are filmmakers who are looking for a “.

” language All films that are awarded today, leave some trace in the soul, “- said Konchalovsky

nominations

in the main category.” nick “was Alexander Mindadze (” dear Hans, dear Peter “), it is recognized as the best screenwriter. Competition film “Dear Hans, Dear Peter” were painting “The Battle of Sevastopol” Sergei Mokritskiy, “Batalon” Dmitry Meshieva, “Oz” Basil Sigareva, “The End of a Beautiful Era” by Stanislav Govorukhin and “About Love” by Anna Melikyan.

“best director” kinoakademiki recognized Stanislav Govorukhin for the film “The End of a beautiful era” based on the works of Sergei Dovlatov. Artist starring Ivan Kolesnikov received the award in the category “Discovery of the Year”

“Stanislav Sergeyevich recently turned 80 years old, a perfect gift for the anniversary” -. Said the director Gleb Panfilov, handing Govorukhin statue of the winged goddess

Prize for “Best Actress” won Irina Kupchenko for starring in the movie Alexis Petrukhina “The teacher”. Best Actor noted of two actors -. Danila Kozlovsky ( “Duhless 2″) and Alexander Yatsenko ( “Insight”)

“Nick” for the best supporting actor got Inna Churikova and Mikhail Efremov for the film ” Oz “

” The best film of CIS and Baltic countries “Kyrgyzstan has become the film” heaven nomadic “(directed Mirlan Abdykalykova). “Best Animated Film” jury recognized the film Ekaterina Sokolova “Wolf Bob”.

Special prizes

The actress Alisa Freundlich was awarded a special prize “For the honor and dignity,” the name of Eldar Ryazanov, which in this It was awarded for the first time. The actress said that the award is especially valuable for her as Ryazanov told her the way to the cinema

“Eldar remarkable man, for his honor and dignity – that’s a given.” – Freundlich said

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Memory of the director, who left last year, hall honored standing.

Award “for outstanding contribution to the national cinema” award-winning director Vitaly Melnikov. “For contribution to the cinematic science, criticism and education,” said the chief editor of the magazine “Cinema Art” Daniel Dondurey.

A special prize “For the creative achievements in the art of the TV film” kinoakademiki awarded series Konstantin Khudyakov “Once in Rostov” .

“Nika” Award was established in 1987 by the secretariat of the USSR. Its founder and artistic director – director Yuli Gusman. President’s Award in different years was playwright Victor Merezhko, director Eldar Ryazanov, actor Alexei Batalov. In 2013, the president took the director Andrei Konchalovsky.