Political Film Society Award for Peace
The Political Society Award for Peace is a category of Political Film Society Awards presented annually by the Political Film Society (PFS) since 1987. Films are awarded that show the absurdity of violent conflict resolution or the superiority of non-violent solutions.
Only established PFS members nominate films for the award; the number of nominated films varies from year to year.
In addition to television and documentary productions, all films that run for at least a week in a commercial cinema in the Los Angeles area or that are distributed on DVD can be proposed .
Winners and nominees
2010
The ghostwriter - Roman Polański
2009
Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
- Avatar - Departure for Pandora - James Cameron
- 50 Dead Men Walking - The Spy - Kari Skogland
- Days of Wrath - Ole Christian Madsen
- Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
2008
2007
- Black Friday - Anurag Kashyap
- In the valley of Elah - Paul Haggis
- Redacted - Brian De Palma
- The Situation - Philip Haas
2006
Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noel) - Christian Carion
2005
- The downfall - Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Country of My Skull - John Boorman
- Jarhead - Welcome to the Filth - Sam Mendes
- Private - Saverio Costanzo
2004
Brotherhood - When Brothers Must Shoot Each Other (Tae Guk Ki) - Kang Je-gyu
2003
- Beyond All Limits - Martin Campbell
- On the way to Cold Mountain - Anthony Minghella
- The colonel and the dancer - John Malkovich
- X-Men 2 - Bryan Singer
2002
The silent American - Phillip Noyce
- Antwone Fisher - Denzel Washington
- The experiment - Oliver Hirschbiegel
- K-19 - Showdown in the Deep - Kathryn Bigelow
- The attack - Phil Alden Robinson
- Time of Favor - Joseph Cedar
- To End All Wars - The Real Hell - David L. Cunningham
2001
- Atlantis and The Secret of the Lost City - Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
- We have to stick together - Jan Hřebejk
- Journey to the Sun - Yeşim Ustaoğlu
2000
Thirteen Days - Roger Donaldson
- The Cell - Tarsem Singh
- Crime and Punishment in Surburbia - Rob Schmidt
- It's the Rage - James D. Stern
- Kippur - Amos Gitai
- The Terrorist - Santosh Sivan
- Frontline - Between the Fronts - Roger Michell
- X-Men - Bryan Singer
1999
Three Kings - It's nice to be king - David O. Russell
- Cabaret Balkan - Goran Paskaljević
- Earth - Deepa Mehta
- Light It Up - Craig Bolotin
- One Man's Hero - Lance Hool
- West Beirut - Ziad Doueiri
1998
- American History X - Tony Kaye
- The boxer - Jim Sheridan
- Men with Guns - John Sayles
- Regeneration - Gillies MacKinnon
- Saving Private Ryan - Steven Spielberg
- The fine line - Terrence Malick
1997
Seven years in Tibet - Jean-Jacques Annaud
1996
1995
Rangoon - In the Heart of the Storm - John Boorman
1994
1993
Between heaven and hell - Oliver Stone
1992
Grand Canyon - In the heart of the city - Lawrence Kasdan
1991
Boyz n the Hood - Boys in the Quarter - John Singleton
1990
Dances with wolves - Kevin Costner
1989
The damned of war - Brian De Palma
1988
Good Morning, Vietnam - Barry Levinson
1987
Web links
- http://www.polfilms.com/previous.html Previous Political Film Society Award Winners ( Political Film Society Award Winners and Nominees on the Society's website, English) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Nomination criteria on the Political Film Society website, English). Retrieved March 22, 2011.
