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{{short description|Best Film award at San Sebastián Film Festival}}
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The '''Golden Shell'''{{refn|group=n.|Also referred to in English-language sources as the '''Golden Conch'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/oct/01/filmnews.film|website=[[The Guardian]]|date=1 October 2001|first=Fiachra|last=Gibbons|title=Distribution 'key to film maker's success'}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|page=3|year=2011|title=Film Festivals: Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen|first=Cindy Hing-Yuk|last=Wong|location=New Brunswick|isbn=978-0-8135-5065-7|publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]]}}</ref>}} ({{langx|es|Concha de Oro|links=no}}; {{langx|eu|Urrezko Maskorra|links=no}}) is the highest prize given to a competing film at the [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com:443/1953/awards_and_jury_members/awards/1/46/in|title=San Sebastian Film Festival|website=sansebastianfestival|access-date=2019-10-02}}</ref> It was introduced in 1957.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com:443/1957/awards_and_jury_members/awards/1/50/in|title=San Sebastian Film Festival|website=sansebastianfestival|access-date=2019-10-02}}</ref> In 1953 and 1954, the highest prize had been called the '''Gran Premio'''. In 1955 and 1956 it was replaced by the Silver Shell. Six directors have won the Golden Shell twice: [[United States|American]] director [[Francis Ford Coppola]] (in 1969 & 1984), [[Spain|Spanish]] director [[Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón]] (in 1982 & 1986), [[Mexico|Mexican]] director [[Arturo Ripstein]] (in 1993 & 2000), [[Spain|Spanish]] director [[Imanol Uribe]] (in 1994 & 1996), [[Iran]]ian director [[Bahman Ghobadi]] (in 2004 & 2006), and Spanish director [[Isaki Lacuesta]] (in 2011 & 2018).

==Winners==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
!English Title
! Original Title
! Director(s)
! Production Country
|-
! 1953 
|''[[I Was a Parish Priest]]''|| ''La Guerra de Dios'' || [[Rafael Gil]] || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} [[Spain]]
|-
! 1954 
|''[[Cursed Mountain (film)|Cursed Mountain]]''|| ''Sierra maldita'' || [[Antonio del Amo]] 
|-
! 1955 
|''[[Days of Love]]''|| ''Giorni d'amore'' || [[Giuseppe de Santis]] || rowspan="3" | {{flagcountry|Italy}}
|-
! 1956 
|''[[The Railroad Man]]''|| ''Il ferroviere'' || [[Pietro Germi]] 
|-
! 1957 
|''[[Oh! Sabella]]''|| ''La nonna Sabella'' || [[Dino Risi]] 
|-
! 1958 
|''Eve Wants to Sleep''|| ''Ewa chce spać'' || [[Tadeusz Chmielewski]] || {{flagcountry|Poland|1928}}
|-
! 1959 
| colspan="2" |''[[The Nun's Story (film)|The Nun's Story]]''|| [[Fred Zinnemann]] || {{USA}}
|-
! 1960 
|''[[Romeo, Juliet and Darkness]]''|| ''Romeo, Julie a tma'' || [[Jiri Weiss]] || {{flagcountry|Czechoslovakia}}
|-
! 1961 
| colspan="2" |''[[One-Eyed Jacks]]''|| [[Marlon Brando]] || {{USA}}
|-
! 1962 
|''[[Arturo's Island (film)|Arturo's Island]]''|| ''L'isola di Arturo'' || [[Damiano Damiani]] || rowspan="2" | {{ITA}}
|-
! 1963 
| colspan="2" |''[[Mafioso (film)|Mafioso]]''|| [[Alberto Lattuada]] 
|-
! 1964 
| colspan="2" |''[[America, America]]''|| [[Elia Kazan]] || {{USA}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1965 
|''Golden Queen''|| ''Zlatá reneta'' ||[[Otakar Vávra]]||{{flagcountry|Czechoslovakia}}
|-
| colspan="2" |''[[Mirage (1965 film)|Mirage]]'' 
|[[Edward Dmytryk]]
|{{USA}}
|-
! 1966 
| colspan="2" |''[[I Was Happy Here]]''|| [[Desmond Davis]] || {{UK}}
|-
! 1967 
| colspan="2" |''[[Two for the Road (1967 film)|Two for the Road]]''|| [[Stanley Donen]] || {{USA}}
|-
! 1968 
| colspan="2" |''[[The Long Day's Dying]]''|| [[Peter Collinson (film director)|Peter Collinson]] || {{UK}}
|-
! 1969 
| colspan="2" |''[[The Rain People]]''|| [[Francis Ford Coppola]] || {{USA}}
|-
! 1970 
|''[[Dead of Summer (film)|Dead of Summer]]''|| ''Ondata di calore'' || [[Nelo Risi]] || {{ITA}}
|-
! 1971 
|''[[Claire's Knee]]''|| ''Le Genou de Claire'' || [[Eric Rohmer]] || {{FRA}}
|-
! 1972 
| colspan="2" |''[[The Glass House (1972 film)|The Glass House]]''|| [[Tom Gries]] || {{USA}}
|-
! 1973 
|''[[The Spirit of the Beehive]]''|| ''El espíritu de la colmena'' || [[Víctor Erice]] || {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} [[Spain]]
|-
! 1974 
| colspan="2" |''[[Badlands (film)|Badlands]]''|| [[Terrence Malick]] || {{USA}}
|-
! 1975 
|''[[Poachers (film)|Poachers]]'' || ''Furtivos'' || [[José Luis Borau]] || {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} [[Spain]]
|-
! 1976 
|''[[Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven]]''
| Табор уходит в небо || [[Emil Loteanu]] || rowspan="2" | {{USSR}}
|-
! 1977 
|''[[An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano]]''|| Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино || [[Nikita Mikhalkov]] 
|-
! 1978 
| colspan="2" |''[[Alambrista!]]''|| [[Robert M. Young (film director)|Robert M. Young]] || {{USA}}
|-
! 1979 
|''[[Autumn Marathon]]'' || Осенний марафон || [[Georgi Daneliya]] || {{USSR}}
|-
! 1980 
|''[[The Orchestra Conductor]]''|| ''Dyrygent'' || [[Andrzej Wajda]] || {{flagcountry|Poland}}
|-
! 1981 
|''[[Tales of Ordinary Madness]]''|| ''Storie di ordinaria follia'' || [[Marco Ferreri]] || {{ITA}}
|-
! 1982 
|''[[Demonios en el Jardín|Demons in the Garden]]''|| ''Demonios en el jardín'' || [[Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón]] || {{flagcountry|Spain}}
|-
! 1983 
| colspan="2" |''[[Entre Nous (film)|Entre Nous]]''|| [[Diane Kurys]] || {{FRA}}
|-
! 1984 
| colspan="2" |''[[Rumble Fish]]''|| [[Francis Ford Coppola]] || {{USA}}
|-
! 1985 
| colspan="2" |''[[Yesterday (1985 film)|Yesterday]]''|| [[Radosław Piwowarski]] || {{flagcountry|Poland}}
|-
! 1986 
|''[[Half of Heaven]]''|| ''La mitad del cielo'' || [[Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón]] || {{flagcountry|Spain}}
|-
! 1987 
|''[[Wedding in Galilee]]''|| عرس الجليل || [[Michel Khleifi]] || {{flagcountry|Belgium}}{{FRA}}
|-
! 1988 
| colspan="2" |''[[On the Black Hill (film)|On the Black Hill]]''|| [[Andrew Grieve]] || {{UK}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1989 
| colspan="2" |''[[Homer and Eddie]]''||[[Andrei Konchalovski]] ||{{USA}}
|-
| colspan="2" |''La nación clandestina'' 
|[[Jorge Sanjinés]]
|{{flagcountry|Bolivia}}
|-
! 1990 
|''[[Letters from Alou]]''|| ''Las cartas de Alou'' || [[Montxo Armendáriz]] || rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Spain}}
|-
! 1991 
|''[[Alas de Mariposa|Butterfly Wings]]''|| ''Alas de mariposa'' || [[Juanma Bajo Ulloa]] 
|-
! 1992 
|''[[A Place in the World (film)|A Place in the World]]''|| ''Un lugar en el mundo'' || [[Adolfo Aristarain]] || {{flagcountry|Argentina}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1993 
|''[[The Beginning and the End (1993 film)|The Beginning and the End]]''|| ''Principio y fin''||[[Arturo Ripstein]]||{{flagcountry|Mexico}}
|-
|''[[Sara (1992 film)|Sara]]''
|سارا
|[[Dariush Mehrjui]]
|{{flagcountry|Iran}}
|-
! 1994 
| colspan="2" |''[[Días contados]]''|| [[Imanol Uribe]] || {{flagcountry|Spain}}
|-
! 1995 
| colspan="2" |''[[Margaret's Museum]]''|| [[Mort Ransen]] || {{flagcountry|Canada}} {{UK}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1996 
| colspan="2" |''[[Bwana (film)|Bwana]]'' ||[[Imanol Uribe]]||{{flagcountry|Spain}}
|-
| colspan="2" |''[[Trojan Eddie]]'' 
|[[Gillies MacKinnon]]
|{{flagcountry|Ireland}}
|-
! 1997 
|''[[The Swindle (1997 film)|The Swindle]]''|| ''Rien ne va plus'' || [[Claude Chabrol]] || {{FRA}}
|-
! 1998 
|''Wind with the Gone''|| El viento se llevó lo qué || [[Alejandro Agresti]] || {{flagcountry|Argentina}} {{flagcountry|FRA}}<br>{{flagcountry|Netherlands}} {{flagcountry|Spain}}
|-
! 1999 
| colspan="2" |''[[C'est quoi la vie?]]''|| [[François Dupeyron]] || {{FRA}}
|-
! 2000 
|''The Ruination of Men''||''La perdición de los hombres'' 
| [[Arturo Ripstein]] || {{flagcountry|Mexico}} {{flagcountry|Spain}}
|-
! 2001 
|''[[A Cab for Three]]''|| ''Taxi para tres'' || [[Orlando Lübbert]] || {{flagcountry|Chile}}
|-
! 2002 
|''[[Mondays in the Sun]]''|| ''Los lunes al sol'' || [[Fernando León de Aranoa]] || {{flagcountry|Spain}} {{FRA}} {{ITA}}
|-
! 2003 
|''[[Gun-Shy (2003 film)|Gun-shy]]''|| ''Schussangst'' || [[Dito Tsintsadze]] || {{flagcountry|Germany}}
|-
! 2004 
|''[[Turtles Can Fly]]'' || کیسەڵەکانیش دەفڕن || [[Bahman Ghobadi]] || {{flagcountry|Iran}} {{FRA}} {{flagcountry|Iraq}}
|-
! 2005 
|''[[Something Like Happiness]]''|| ''Štěstí'' || [[Bohdan Sláma]] || {{flagcountry|Czech Republic}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | 2006 
|''[[Half Moon (film)|Half Moon]]''|| نیوەمانگ
|[[Bahman Ghobadi]]||{{flagcountry|Iran}}
|-
| colspan="2" |''[[Mon fils à moi]]''
|Martial Fougeron
|{{FRA}}
|-
! 2007 
| colspan="2" |''[[A Thousand Years of Good Prayers]]''|| [[Wayne Wang]] || {{USA}}
|-
! 2008 
|''[[Pandora's Box (2008 film)|Pandora's Box]]''|| ''Pandora'nın Kutusu'' || [[Yeşim Ustaoğlu]] || {{flagcountry|Turkey}}
|-
! 2009 
|''[[City of Life and Death]]''|| 南京！南京！ || [[Lu Chuan]] || {{flagcountry|China}}
|-
! 2010 
| colspan="2" |''[[Neds (film)|Neds]]''|| [[Peter Mullan]] || {{UK}}<br>{{FRA}} {{flagcountry|ITA}}
|-
! 2011 
| colspan="2" |''Los pasos dobles''||[[Isaki Lacuesta]] || {{ESP}} {{flagcountry|CHE}}
|-
! 2012 
|''[[In the House (film)|In the House]]''|| ''Dans la maison'' || [[François Ozon]] || {{flagcountry|FRA}}
|-
! 2013 
|''[[Bad Hair (2013 film)|Bad Hair]]''|| ''Pelo malo'' || [[Mariana Rondón]] || {{flagcountry|VEN}} {{flagcountry|PER}} {{flagcountry|GER}}
|-
! 2014 
| colspan="2" |''[[Magical Girl (film)|Magical Girl]]''|| [[Carlos Vermut]] || {{flagcountry|ESP}}
|-
! 2015 
|''[[Sparrows (2015 film)|Sparrows]]''|| ''Þrestir'' || [[Rúnar Rúnarsson]] || {{flagcountry|DEN}} {{flagcountry|ISL}}
|-
! 2016 
|''[[I Am Not Madame Bovary]]''|| 我不是潘金莲 || [[Feng Xiaogang]] || {{flagcountry|China}}
|-
! 2017 
| colspan="2" |''[[The Disaster Artist (film)|The Disaster Artist]]''|| [[James Franco]] || {{flagcountry|USA}}
|-
! 2018 
|''Between Two Waters''|| ''Entre dos Aguas'' || [[Isaki Lacuesta]] || {{flagcountry|ESP}}
|-
! 2019
|''Pacified<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-03 |title=San Sebastian Film Festival :: |url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903025945/https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/ |archive-date=2019-09-03 |access-date=2019-10-05}}</ref>''||''Pacificado'' || Paxton Winters || {{flagcountry|BRA}}
|-
! 2020
|''[[Beginning (2020 film)|Beginning]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-26 |title=Official Awards - FIAPF |url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2020/awards_and_jury_members/1/8731/in |access-date=2020-09-26}}</ref>''||დასაწყისი || [[Déa Kulumbegashvili]] || {{flagcountry|GEO}}
|-
![[69th San Sebastián International Film Festival|2021]]
|''Blue Moon''
|''Crai Nou'' 
|Alina Grigore
|{{flagcountry|ROU}}
|-
![[70th San Sebastián International Film Festival|2022]]
|''[[The Kings of the World]]''
|''Los reyes del mundo''
|[[Laura Mora]]
|{{flagcountry|COL}}
|-
![[71st San Sebastián International Film Festival|2023]]
|''[[The Rye Horn]]''
|''O corno''
|[[Jaione Camborda]]
|{{ESP}} {{POR}} {{BEL}}
|-
![[72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival|2024]]
|''[[Afternoons of Solitude]]''
|''Tardes de soledad''
|[[Albert Serra]]
|{{ESP}} {{POR}} {{FRA}}
|}

== See also ==
* [[Silver Shell for Best Director]]
* [[Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance]]
* [[Silver Shell for Best Actor]]
* [[Silver Shell for Best Actress]]
* [[Donostia Award]]
* [[Sebastiane Award]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website}} {{in lang|es|eu|en}}
*{{cite web|website=IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000588/overview |title=San Sebastián International Film Festival}}

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