IFFI Best Actor Award (Female)
International award for contributions to World Cinema
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actor
Sponsored byDirectorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)Silver Peacock Award
First awarded1965
Last awarded2023
Most recent winnerMélanie Thierry
Highlights
Total awarded25
First winnerSharmila Tagore

The IFFI Award for Best Actress (officially known as the Silver Peacock for the Best Actor Award (Female)) is an honor presented annually at the International Film Festival of India since 2010 to an actress for the best performance in a leading role in World cinema.[1] Earlier the award was presented on various occasions at the 3rd IFFI for ensemble cast in "Nirjan Saikate", and Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres at 11th IFFI.[2]

List of award winners

Ángela Molina, 2021 award winner
Usha Jadhav, 2019 award winner
List of award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)
Year Recipient(s) Work(s) Language(s) Ref.
1965
(3rd) 		Sharmila Tagore
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Chhaya Debi
Renuka Debi
Bharati Debi 		"Nirjan Saikate" Bengali [3]
1987
(11th) 		Fernanda Torres "Love Me Forever or Never" Brazilian [4]
2010
(41st) 		Magdalena Boczarska "Little Rose" Polish [5]
2011
(42nd) 		Nadezhda Markina "Elena" Russian [6]
2012
(43rd) 		Anjali Patil "Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka" Sinhala [7]
2013
(44th) 		Magdalena Boczarska "In Hiding" Polish [8]
2014
(45th) 		Alina Rodriguez
Sarit Larry 		"Behavior"
"The Kindergarten Teacher" 		Spanish
Hebrew 		[9]
2015
(46th) 		Gunes Sensoy
Doga Doguslu
Tugba Sunguroglu
Elit İşcan
İlayda Akdoğan 		"Mustang" Turkish [10]
2016
(47th) 		Elina Vaska "Mellow Mud" Latvian [11]
2017
(48th) 		Parvathy Thiruvothu "Take Off" Malayalam [12]
2018
(49th) 		Anastasiia Pustovit "When the Trees Fall" Ukrainian [13]
2019
(50th) 		Usha Jadhav "Mai Ghat: Crime No 103/2015" Marathi [14]
2020
(51st) 		Zofia Stafiej I Never Cry Polish [15]
2021
(52nd) 		Ángela Molina Charlotte Spanish [16]
2022
(53rd) 		Daniela Marin Navarro I Have Electric Dreams Spanish [17]
2023
(54th) 		Mélanie Thierry Party of Fools French [18]

References

  1. ^ "41st International Film Festival begins at GOA from 22nd November 2010". pib.nic.in.
  2. ^ "IFFI Best actress awards".
  3. ^ "Best actress awards 1965".
  4. ^ "Best actress awards 1965".
  5. ^ "India wins Golden Peacock after 10 yrs – Times of India".
  6. ^ "42nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) – Goa – 2011 – Shadow Play India". www.shadowplayindia.com.
  7. ^ "43rd IFFI closes with Meera Nair's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'". pib.nic.in.
  8. ^ "'Beatriz's War' wins Golden Peacock at 44th International film festival of India – Times of India".
  9. ^ "Russian film Leviathan wins Golden Peacock at IFFI 2014". 30 November 2014.
  10. ^ "Key highlights of the 46th International Film Festival of India". pib.nic.in.
  11. ^ "47th IFFI Concluded in Goa". 29 November 2016.
  12. ^ "IFFI 2017 complete winners list: Parvathy wins Best Actress; Amitabh Bachchan is 'Film Personality of The Year'".
  13. ^ "Donbass wins Golden Peacock at IFFI". The Hindu. 28 November 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  14. ^ "Particles wins the Golden Peacock Award at IFFI 2019 - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  15. ^ "51st International Film Festival of India: Winners list". Indian Express. 24 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  16. ^ "Japanese movie 'Ring Wandering' wins Golden Peacock Award at 52nd edition of IFFI". Devdiscourse. 28 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  17. ^ "IFFI 2022 winners list: I Have Electric Dreams wins big". 28 November 2022.
  18. ^ "Winners at IFFI54". Press Information Bureau. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
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