The winners of the “Golden Dziga” award were announced

This year, the statuettes were awarded to the winners of 2022, 2023 and 2024

On Wednesday, September 11, the Ukrainian Film Academy named the winners of the Ukrainian national film award “Golden Dzyga”. For the first time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the organizers decided to hold a ceremony for the awarding of the statuettes, as well as to award the laureates of 2022 and 2023.

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This was reported by the press service of the Ukrainian Film Academy.

The largest number of statuettes was expectedly collected by the contender for the “Oscar” from Ukraine, the ironic detective “La Palisade” – 8 awards, when it was presented in 14 nominations. The historical film “Dovbush” won 6 awards and competed in 13 nominations. However, the film “Lessons of Tolerance” did not live up to expectations: it was previously announced in 8 nominations, but as a result, it did not receive a single statuette.

In total, the “Golden Dzyga” Film Award was presented in 22 nominations:

• The best film – “20 Days in Mariupol”, dir. Mstislav Chernov
• The best documentary film – “20 Days in Mariupol”, directed by Mstislav Chernov

• The best short feature film (named after Yu.A. Minzyanov) – “Zhyva”, dir. Vladlen Odudenko, prod. Valentyn Vasyanovych, Volodymyr Yatsenko, Anna Yatsenko
• The best short documentary film – “Chernobyl 22”, dir. Oleksii Radinsky, prod. Dear Knorozok
• The best animated film – “Mariupol. One Hundred Nights”, prod. Andriy Palatny, director. Sofia Melnyk
• The best TV series – “Transporter”, prod. Evgeny Tunik, Anastasia Bataeva-Dokalenko, Lyudmila Semchuk, Kateryna Shevelyuk, director. Evgeny Tunik

• The best directorial work (named after Yu.G. Ilyenko) – Philip Sotnychenko, “La Palisade”
• The best music – Alla Zagaykevych, Oleksandr Chornyi, “Dovbush”
• The best cinematography – Serhii Mykhalchuk, “Dovbush”
• The best male role – Novruz Pashaev, “La Palisade”
• The best female role – Anastasia Karpenko, “How’s Katya?”
• Best Supporting Actor – Oleksiy Hnatkovskyi, “Dovbush”
• Best Supporting Actress – Olena Mamchur, “La Palisade”

• The best work of the production designer – Yuriy Hryhorovych, Oleksandra Drobot, “Dovbush”
• The best screenplay – Philip Sotnychenko, “La Palisade”
• The best make-up – Iryna Solodovska, “Dovbush”
• The best costume design – Gala Otenko, Maria Kero, “Dovbush”

• The best sound – Serhii Avdeev, “La Palisade”
• The best editing – Philip Sotnychenko, “La Palisade”
• Best special effects – Oleksiy Kudyma, “La Palisade”
• The best song – “Turtle Aha” from the movie “La Palisade”, author of music and words by Hanna Chubach
• Prize for contribution to the development of Ukrainian cinema – Serhiy Trimbach

What is the Golden Jig

“Golden Dziga” – the Ukrainian national film award, founded in 2017 by the Ukrainian Film Academy. Awarded for professional achievements in the development of Ukrainian cinema, since 2021 the award has 24 nominations.

The main symbol of the National Film Award is the “Golden Dzyga” statuette, which is awarded to the winners. It symbolizes the rapid and unceasing development of Ukrainian cinematography. The author of the statue’s design, the Ukrainian artist Nazar Bilyk, described the “Golden Dzyga” as follows:

“The main element of the composition is a frame from a movie film, a golden quadrangle that dynamically rotates, personifying the cinema. The shape of the statuette resembles a fire, a sprout, which are symbols of the development and renewal of national cinema“.

The sixth National Film Award was to be held in 2022 and celebrate the best films released the previous year. But in connection with the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the voting by the members of the Ukrainian Film Academy, which determined the winners, took place a year later.

The winners of the seventh prize were announced online. A rather unusual format was chosen for this – one or two winners were announced every day on social networks for a month.