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Fantasporto
Location	Porto, Portugal
Founded	1981
Founded by	Mário Dorminsky, Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and José Manuel Pereira
Language	International
Website	fantasporto.com

Fantasporto, also known as Fantas, is an international film festival, annually organized since 1981 in Porto, Portugal. Giving screen space to fantasy/science fiction/horror-oriented commercial feature films, auteur films and experimental projects from all over the world, Fantasporto has created enthusiastic audiences, ranging from cinephiles to more popular spectators, with an annual average of 110,000 attendees. It was rated in Variety as one of the 25 leading festivals of the world.^[1] In its 27th edition in February 2006 the festival reached 104,000 people and 5,000 media references, both domestic and international, with a record of 187 hours of TV time. Present in Porto were about 100 members of the foreign press and about 250 Portuguese journalists and media representatives.

In spite of being organized by a private entity, the event is mostly state funded, with the Ministry of Culture of Portugal leading and the President of the Republic as head of the Honour Committee, along with several private sponsors.

Awards

Secção Oficial Cinema Fantástico
- Grande Prémio Fantasporto – Best Film Award
- Prémio Especial do Juri – Jury’s Special Award
- Melhor Realização – Best Direction
- Melhor Actor – Best Actor
- Melhor Actriz – Best Actress
- Melhor Argumento – Best Screenplay
- Melhores Efeitos Especiais – Best Special Effects
- Melhor Curta-Metragem – Best Short Film
- Menção do Juri Internacional – Special Mention of the Jury
Semana dos Realizadores
- Prémio Melhor Filme Semana dos Realizadores: – Directors Week Best Film Award
- Prémio Especial do Juri – Directors Week Jury’s Special Award
- Melhor Realização – Directors Week Best Director Award
- Melhor Actor – Directors Week Best Actor Award
- Melhor Actriz – Directors Week Best Actress Award
- Melhor Argumento – Directors Week Best Screenplay Award
- Menção Especial – Special Mention of the Directors Week Jury
Prémio do Cinema Português
- Melhor Filme – Best Portuguese Picture
- Melhor Escola – Best Portuguese Cinema School
Non official awards
- International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award
- Prémio da Crítica – Critic’s Award
- Prémio do Público – Audience Award
Prémios Carreira

Grande Prémio Fantasporto

The Grande Prémio Fantasporto is the highest prize awarded at the Fantasporto Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition.

Award winners

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1982	The Redeemer	Krsto Papić	* Yugoslavia
1983	Scanners	David Cronenberg	* Canada
1984	The Last Battle	Luc Besson	* France
1985	The Company of Wolves	Neil Jordan	* United Kingdom
1986	Eternal Fire	José Ángel Rebolledo	* Spain
1987	Defense of the Realm	David Drury	United Kingdom
1988	A Chinese Ghost Story	Ching Siu-tung	* Hong Kong
1989	Monkey Shines	George A. Romero	United States
1990	Black Rainbow	Mike Hodges	United Kingdom
1991	Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer	John McNaughton	United States
1992	Toto the Hero	Jaco van Dormael	* Belgium
1993	Braindead	Peter Jackson	* New Zealand
1994	Cronos	Guillermo del Toro	* Mexico
1995	Shallow Grave	Danny Boyle	United Kingdom
1996	Seven	David Fincher	United States
1997	Bound	The Wachowskis^[a]	United States
1998	Retroactive	Louis Morneau	United States
1999	Cube	Vincenzo Natali	* Canada
2000	Siam Sunset	John Polson	* Australia
2001	Amores perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Mexico
2002	Fausto 5.0	La Fura dels Baus	Spain
2003	Intacto	Juan Carlos Fresnadillo	Spain
2004	A Tale of Two Sisters	Kim Jee-woon	* South Korea
2005	Nothing	Vincenzo Natali	Canada
2006	Frostbiten	Anders Banke	* Sweden
2007	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro	Mexico
2008	REC	Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza	Spain
2009	Idiots and Angels	Bill Plympton	United States
2010	Heartless	Philip Ridley	United Kingdom
2011	Two Eyes Staring	Elbert van Strien	* Netherlands
2012	Hell	Tim Fehlbaum	* Germany
2013	Mama	Andy Muschietti	Spain / Canada
2014	Miss Zombie	Sabu	* Japan
2015	Liza, the Fox-Fairy	Károly Ujj Mészáros	* Hungary
2016	The Lure	Agnieszka Smoczynska	* Poland
2017	Realive	Mateo Gil	Spain
2018	Ravenous	Robin Aubert	Canada
2019	Last Sunrise	Wen Ren	China
2020	Ghost Master	Paul Young	Japan
2021	Suicide Forest Village	Takashi Shimizu	Japan
2022	Follow Her	Sylvia Caminer	United States
2023	Once Upon a Time in the Future: 2121	Serpil Altin	Turkey
2024	From the End of the World	Kazuaki Kiriya	Japan

*_{denotes first win}

Multiple award winners

Vincenzo Natali (1999, 2005)
Guillermo del Toro (1994, 2007)

Melhor Actor

The Best Actor Award (Portuguese: Melhor Actor) is an award presented at Fantasporto. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1982.

Award winners

Year	Actor	Film
1982	Eusebio Poncela	Arrebato
1983	Fabijan Šovagović	Ritam zločina
1984	Vincent Price	For their contributions to the fantastic film genre.
	Peter Cushing
	Christopher Lee
	John Carradine
1985	John Hurt	Nineteen Eighty-Four
1985	Eddy Mitchell	Frankenstein 90
1986	Ian Holm	Dreamchild
1987	Gabriel Byrne	Gothic
1987	Gabriel Byrne	Defence of the Realm
1988	Jim van der Woude	De Wisselwachter
1989	Jeremy Irons	Dead Ringers
1990	Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu	Spoorloos
1991	Michael Rooker	Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1992	Jeff Daniels	Timescape
1993	Harvey Keitel	Bad Lieutenant
1994	Federico Luppi	Cronos
1995	Karra Elejalde	La Madre Muerta
1996	Rupert Everett	Cemetery Man
1997	Juan Inciarte	Sólo se muere dos veces
1998	Nancho Novo	Dame algo
1999	Kevin McKidd	The Acid House
1999	Gary McCormack	The Acid House
2000	Tom Fisher	The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
2000	Konstantin Prochorowski	Holgi
2001	Willem Dafoe	Shadow of the Vampire
2002	Eduard Fernández	Fausto 5.0
2002	Miguel Ángel Solá	Fausto 5.0
2003	Jeremy Northam	Cypher
2004	Darío Grandinetti	Palabras encadenadas
2005	Bruce Campbell	Bubba Ho-Tep
2006	Jaume García Arija	Zulo
2007	Sergi López	Pan's Labyrinth
2008	Mark Borkowski	The Ungodly
2009	Jack O'Connell	Eden Lake
2010	Jim Sturgess	Heartless
2011	Axel Wedekind	Iron Doors
2012	Alexis Diaz de Villegas	Juan of the Dead
2013	Toby Jones	Berberian Sound Studio
2014	Duval’e Glickman	Big Bad Wolves
2015	Rupert Evans	The Canal
2016	Kenichi Matsuyama	Chasuke's Journey
2017	Frederick Koehler	The Evil Within
2018	Ian Veneracion	Ilawod
2019	Christopher Rygh	The Head Hunter
2020	Leif Edlund	Koko-di Koko-da
2021	James D'Arcy	LX 2048
2022	László Attila Horváth	SoulPark
2023	Zsolt Nagy	A játszma
2024	Tovino Thomas	Invisible Windows

Melhor Atriz

The Best Actress Award (Portuguese: Melhor Atriz) is an award presented at Fantasporto. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1982.

Award winners

Year	Actress	Film
1982	Julie Christie	Memoirs of a Survivor
1983	Isabelle Adjani	Possession
1984	Anny Duperey	Le Démon dans l'île
1985	Adriana Herrán	Carne de tu carne
1986	Domiziana Giordano	Zina
1987	Julieta Serrano	Matador
1988	Charlotte Rampling	Mascara
1989	Charlotte Burke	Paperhouse
1990	Rosanna Arquette	Black Rainbow
1991	Tracy Arnold	Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1991	Billie Whitelaw	The Krays
1992	Juliet Stevenson	Truly, Madly, Deeply
1993	Evangelina Sosa	Ángel de Fuego
1994	Sarah Smuts-Kennedy	Jack Be Nimble
1995	Rena Owen	Once Were Warriors
1996	Helena Bonham Carter	Margaret's Museum
1997	Jennifer Tilly	Bound
1998	Rebecca Hobbs	The Ugly
1999	Sofie Gråbøl	Credo
2000	Danielle Cormack	Siam Sunset
2001	Suh Jung	The Isle
2002	Jang Jin-young	Sorum
2003	Asuka Kurosawa	Rokugatsu no hebi
2004	Im Soo-jung	A Tale of Two Sisters
2005	Karen Black	Firecracker
2006	Orsolya Tóth	Johanna
2007	Ariadna Gil	Ausentes
2008	Belén Rueda	El orfanato
2009	Mamatha Bhukya	Vanaja
2010	Neve McIntosh	Salvage
2011	Seo Young-hee	Bedevilled
2012	Hannah Herzsprung	Hell
2013	Jessica Chastain	Mama
2014	Anna Walton	Soulmate
2015	Georgia Bradley	Hungerford
2016	Barbie Forteza	Laut
2017	Catherine Walker	A Dark Song
2018	Jessica McLeod	The Hollow Child
2019	Georgia Chara	Living Space
2020	Cristine Reyes	UnTrue
2021	Thekla Reuten	Marionette
2022	Dani Barker	Follow Her
2023	Thekla Reuten	Narcosis
2024	Eve Ringuette	Jour de Merde

Melhor Argumento

The Best Screenplay Award (Portuguese: Melhor Argumento) is an award presented at Fantasporto. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival.

Award winners

Year	Writer	Film
2012	Alejandro Brugués	Juan of the Dead
2013	Alex Schmidt [de]	Forgotten [de]
2014	Yeon Sang-ho	The Fake
2015	Jong-ho Lee	Mourning Grave
2016	Sabu	Chasuke's Journey
2017	Mateo Gil	Realive
2018	Shin Su-won	Glass Garden
2019	Rodrigo Aragão	A Mata Negra
2020	Chris Bavota & Lee Paula Springer	Dead Dicks
2021	Gábor Hellebrandt & Péter Bergendy	Post Mortem
2022	Rick Ostermann & Patrick Brunken & Dirk Kurbjuweit	Das Haus
2023	Norbert Köbli	A játszma
2024	Sébastien Drouin	Cold Meat