Awards & Winners

Sutherland Trophy

London Film Festival Awards

Created in 1958, the Sutherland Trophy was awarded annually by the British Film Institute to "the maker of the most original and imaginative [first or second feature] film introduced at the National Film Theatre during the year". In 1997, the criteria changed to honour the maker of the most original and imaginative first feature screened during the London Film Festival. The award is a sculpture in silver by Gerald Benney. It is presented on the closing night of the Festival. The award was named after the British Film Institute's patron, George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland.
Date Established : 1958

Check all the winners of Sutherland Trophy presented under London Film Festival Awards since 1958 .


Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani

Honored for : Ajami

Sergey Dvortsevoy

Honored for : Tulpan

Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

Honored for : Persepolis

Andrea Arnold

Honored for : Red Road

Kari Paljakka

Honored for : For the Living and the Dead

Jonathan Caouette

Honored for : Tarnation

Siddiq Barmak

Honored for : Osama

Delphine Gleize

Honored for : Carnage

Asif Kapadia

Honored for : The Warrior

Kenneth Lonergan

Honored for : You Can Count on Me

Lynne Ramsay

Honored for : Ratcatcher

Samira Makhmalbaf

Honored for : The Apple

Bruno Dumont

Honored for : The Life of Jesus

Jevon O'Neill

Honored for : Bob's Weekend

Mofida Tlatli

Honored for : The Silences of the Palace

Tran Anh Hung

Honored for : The Scent of Green Papaya

Julio Medem

Honored for : Cows

Jocelyn Moorhouse

Honored for : Proof

Elaine Proctor

Honored for : On the Wire

Steve Kloves

Honored for : The Fabulous Baker Boys

Nils Gaup

Honored for : Pathfinder

Edward Yang

Honored for : The Terrorizers

Souleymane Cissé

Honored for : Yeelen

Bill Douglas

Honored for : Comrades

Chen Kaige

Honored for : Yellow Earth

Lino Brocka

Honored for : Bayan Ko: My Own Country

Chris Marker

Honored for : Sunless

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Honored for : Rat-Trap

Helma Sanders-Brahms

Honored for : The Heiress

Xie Jin

Honored for : Two Stage Sisters

Peter Greenaway

Honored for : The Falls

Zeki Ökten

Honored for : The Herd

Mark Rappaport

Honored for : The Scenic Route

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Honored for : Hitler: A Film from Germany

Nagisa Oshima

Honored for : In the Realm of the Senses

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Honored for : The Travelling Players

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Honored for : Martha

Georgiy Shengelaya

Honored for : Pirosmani

Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino

Honored for : The Hour of the Furnaces

Robert Bresson

Honored for : Four Nights of a Dreamer

Bernardo Bertolucci

Honored for : The Conformist

Jacques Rivette

Honored for : L'amour fou

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

Honored for : The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

Masaki Kobayashi

Honored for : Samurai Rebellion

André Delvaux

Honored for : De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen

Jean-Luc Godard

Honored for : Pierrot le Fou

Grigori Kozintsev

Honored for : Hamlet

Alain Resnais

Honored for : Muriel

Jacques Rivette

Honored for : Paris Belongs to Us

Ermanno Olmi

Honored for : Il Posto

Michelangelo Antonioni

Honored for : L'Avventura

Satyajit Ray

Honored for : The World of Apu

Yasujir? Ozu

Honored for : Tokyo Story