The Award for Fipresci 90th Anniversary goes to a visionary and daring artist, who, throughout his career, fully explored the endless potentiality of cinematography, granting us deep emotions and surprising us with innovative and touching movies: Jean Jacques Annaud.

His cinema embodies the strength, humanity and beauty of Nature with films such as Quest For Fire, The Bear, Two Brothers and Wolf Totem, which you will soon see.

At the same time, he deeply explored the human soul, with titles such as Enemy At the Gates, Seven Years In Tibet and Black Gold, also transposing on the big screen some of the most unforgettable masterpieces of literature such as The Name of the Rose and L’Amant.

Fipresci assigns the Platinum Award to Jean Jacques Annaud, a European author of major foresight, style and artistic sensibility.