Awards and Festivals

   SWAYAMVARAM     B&W/1972
   (One's own Choice)

   National Award:       Best Film, Best Direction, Best Photography, Best Actress    Kerala State Award: Best Film, Best Photography, Best Art Direction , Best                                Music
   Other Awards:         Certificate of Merit, International Film Review - Colombo    Festivals:               Moscow, Nantes, Colombo, New Indian Cinema                                Expositions in London, Paris, Melbourne etc.

   KODIYETTAM            B&W/1977
   (Ascent)

   National Award:       Best Regional Film, Best Actor
   Kerala State Award: Best Film, Best Direction, Best Script, Best Art Direction,                                Best Actor
   Festivals:               Berlin, La Rochelle, Adelaide, Tunis, Valladolid , Munich                                etc, New Indian Cinema Expositions in U.S.A., France,                                Portugal.

   ELIPPATHAYAM       Colour/1981
   (Rat-Trap)

   National Award:       Best Regional Film, Best Audiography
   Kerala State Award: Best Film, Best Photography, Best Audiography
   Other Awards:         British Film Institute Award for the most original and                                imaginative films shown at the National Film Theatre,                                London (1982)
   Festivals:               Cannes, London, Chicago, New York, Sao Paulo, La                                Rochelle, Nantes, Hawaii, Sydney, Melbourne etc, New                                Cinema Expositions in U.S.A., Japan, France, Germany.

    MUKHAMUKHAM     Colour/1984
   (Face to Face)

   National Award :      Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Audiography
   Kerala State Award: Best Film , Best Direction, Best Photography, Best                                Audiography, Best Editing.
   Other Awards:         FIPRESCI Prize, New Delhi (1984)
   Festivals:               London, Locarno, Tyneside, Hongkong, Brussels, Antwerp,                                Figuera da Foz, Nantez etc, New Indian Film Exposition in                                U.S.A., France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland.

   ANANTHARAM        Colour/1987
   (Monologue)

   National Award:       Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Audiography
   Kerala State Award: Best Direction.
   Other Awards:         FIPRESCI Prize , Karlovy Vary (1988)
   Festivals:               Venice, London , Karlovy Vary, La Rochelle, Nantes ,                                Amiens, New York, Riga, Hawaii, San Fransisco etc...

   MATHILUKAL          Colour/1990
   (Walls)

   National Award:       Best Direction, Best Audiography , Best Regional Film    Other Awards:         FIPRESCI Prize, Unicef Film Prize, Venice (1990), OCIC                                Prize, Amiens(1990)
   Festivals:               Venice, Toronto, London, Munich , Nantes, Hawaii,                                Washington, Rotterdam, Istambul, Haifa, Fribourg, Milan,                                Amiens, Los Angeles, Vienna, Teheran etc.

   VIDHEYAN              Colour/1993
   (The Servile)

   National Award:        Best Regional Film
   Kerala State Award:  Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Story,
                                Critics' prize for Best Indian Film, IFFI, Calcutta(1994)
   Other Awards:          FIPRESCI Prize & Special Jury Prize, Singapore                                 (1994),Inter Film Jury Prize-Mannheim (1994), Netpac                                 Prize, Rotterdam (1995).
   Festivals:                New York, Toronto , Fukuoka, London, Hawaii, Nantes,                                 Rotterdam, Fribourg, Hong kong, Singapore, Chicago,                                 Sao Paulo, Mannheim, Brussels, Munich, Durban,                                 Gotenberg, San Sebastian, San Fransisco, Brisbane,                                 Teheran etc.

    KATHAPURUSHAN   Colour/1996
   (Man of the Story)

   National Award:        Best Film, Best Supporting Actress
   Kerala State Award:  Best Director, Best Supporting Actor ,Best Supporting                                 Actress
   Other State Awards: Padmarajan Award for the Best Film, Best Director, Best                                 Script Writer Film Critics'Award for Best Film ,Best                                 Director, Best Cinematography, Best Background Music,                                 Best Supporting Actor.
   Festivals:                Tokyo, Toronto, Denver, Hawaii, London, Nantes.
                    
                            
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