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The Idiot Returns (1999)

Awards

The Idiot Returns

27 wins & 11 nominations

Angers European First Film Festival

  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    2000 Winner Procirep Award
    • Sasa Gedeon
  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    2000 Winner GNCR Award
    • Sasa Gedeon

Bratislava International Film Festival

  • Pavel Liska
    1999 Winner Best Actor
    • Pavel Liska
  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Winner Special Mention
    • Sasa Gedeon (director)
    • Stepán Kucera (cinematographer)
    • Vladimír Godár (composer)
    For the directing, photography and music.
  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Winner Audience Award
    • Sasa Gedeon
  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Winner Slovak Film Journalists Award
    • Sasa Gedeon

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    2000 Winner Best Screenplay
    • Sasa Gedeon
  • Anna Geislerová and Daniela Drtinová in DVTV (2014)
    2000 Winner Best Actress
    • Anna Geislerová
    Tied with Tatiana Dyková for The Idiot Returns (1999).
  • Vladimír Dlouhý and Tatiana Dyková in Kajínek (2010)
    2000 Winner Best Actress
    • Tatiana Dyková
    Tied with Anna Geislerová for The Idiot Returns (1999).
  • Stepán Kucera
    2000 Winner ADF Cinematography Award - Special Mention
    • Stepán Kucera

FilmFestival Cottbus (FFC)

  • Vladimír Dlouhý and Tatiana Dyková in Kajínek (2010)
    1999 Winner Honorable Mention
    • Tatiana Dyková
    For her performance.
  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Winner Award of the Ecumenical Jury
    • Sasa Gedeon
  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Winner Audience Award
    • Sasa Gedeon

Czech Lions

  • Petr Oukropec
    2000 Winner Czech Lion
    • Best Film (Nejlepsí film)
    • Petr Oukropec
  • Pavel Liska
    2000 Nominee Czech Lion
    • Best Actor (Muzský herecký výkon v hlavní roli)
    • Pavel Liska
  • Vladimír Dlouhý and Tatiana Dyková in Kajínek (2010)
    2000 Nominee Czech Lion
    • Best Actress (Zenský herecký výkon v hlavní roli)
    • Tatiana Dyková
  • Jirí Langmajer in Svetýlka z blat (1992)
    2000 Nominee Czech Lion
    • Best Supporting Actor (Muzský herecký výkon ve vedlejsí roli)
    • Jirí Langmajer
  • Anna Geislerová and Daniela Drtinová in DVTV (2014)
    2000 Winner Czech Lion
    • Best Supporting Actress (Zenský herecký výkon ve vedlejsí roli)
    • Anna Geislerová

European Film Awards

  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Screenwriter
    • Sasa Gedeon

Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival

  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    2000 Winner FIPRESCI Prize
    • Sasa Gedeon
    For its fresh and actual vision of the classical subject and for its sparing but strong cinematographical language.
  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    2000 Nominee Golden Dolphin
    • Sasa Gedeon

Pilsen Film Festival

  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Winner Golden Kingfisher
    • Sasa Gedeon
  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Winner Don Quixote Award
    • Sasa Gedeon

Stockholm Film Festival

  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Nominee Bronze Horse
    • Sasa Gedeon

São Paulo International Film Festival

  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Winner International Jury Award
    • Sasa Gedeon

Thessaloniki Film Festival

  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Winner Special Artistic Achievement
    • Sasa Gedeon
  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Nominee Golden Alexander
    • Sasa Gedeon

Venice Film Festival

  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    1999 Nominee Cinema of the Present - Lion of the Year
    • Sasa Gedeon

Prix Europa

  • The Idiot Returns (1999)
    1999 Winner Prix Europa
    • TV Fiction
  • Petr Oukropec
    1999 Winner Prix Europa
    • TV Fiction
    • Petr Oukropec
    • Sasa Gedeon
    • Stepán Kucera

Czech Critics Awards

  • Sasa Gedeon in The Devil Knows Why (2003)
    2000 Winner Kristian
    • Best Feature Film (Nejlepsí Hraný Film Roku)
    • Sasa Gedeon

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