Awards - Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival - 1973-1983

Grand Prize

• The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, Frank Oz)
• The Entity (Sidney J. Furie)
• Android (Aaron Lipstadt)
• Czułe miejsca (Piotr Andrejew)
• Fire and Ice (Ralph Bakshi)
• Endangered Species (Alan Rudolph)
• Frightmare (Norman Thaddeus Vane)
• House of the Long Shadows (Pete Walker)
• The Imp (Dennis Yu)
• Kamikaze 89 (Wolf Gremm)
• The Beautiful Prisoner (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
• The Last Combat (Luc Besson)
• Phobia (John Huston)
• Demon Is on the Island (Francis Leroi)
• The Appointment (Lindsey C. Vickers)
• The Beastmaster (Don Coscarelli)
• Ferat Vampire (Juraj Herz)
• The Sender (Roger Christian)
• Warlords of the 21st Century (Harley Cokeliss)

Special Jury Award

• The Last Combat (Luc Besson)
• Warlords of the 21st Century (Harley Cokeliss)

Best Actress

• Barbara Hershey (The Entity)

Critics Award

• The Last Combat (Luc Besson)

Antennae II Award

• The Beastmaster (Don Coscarelli)

Suspense Award

• Demon Is on the Island (Francis Leroi)

Grand Prize

• Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller)
• Alligator (Lewis Teague)
• Deadly Blessing (Wes Craven)
• To the Stars by Hard Ways (Richard Viktorov)
• Ghost Story (John Irvin)
• Galaxy of Terror (Bruce D. Clark)
• Heat Shimmer Theater (Seijun Suzuki)
• Litan (Jean-Pierre Mocky)
• Looker (Michael Crichton)
• Memoirs of a Survivor (David Gladwell)
• Ms .45 (Abel Ferrara)
• My Bloody Valentine (George Mihalka)
• The Hand (Oliver Stone)
• Venom (Piers Haggard)
• Wolfen (Michael Wadleigh)
• The War of the Worlds - The Next Century (Piotr Szulkin)

Special Jury Award

• Memoirs of a Survivor (David Gladwell)
• Wolfen (Michael Wadleigh)

Special Mention

• Piotr Szulkin (The War of the Worlds - The Next Century)

Golden Medal - Short Film

• Le Voyage d'hiver (Fred de Fooko)

Critics Award

• Litan (Jean-Pierre Mocky)

Antennae II Award

• Memoirs of a Survivor (David Gladwell)

Grand Prize

• The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
• Fade to Black (Vernon Zimmerman)
• Terror Eyes (Ken Hughes)
• Golem (Piotr Szulkin)
• Friday the 13th (Sean S. Cunningham)
• G.I. Samurai (Kôsei Saitô)
• Terror Train (Roger Spottiswoode)
• Somewhere in Time (Jeannot Szwarc)
• The Chain Reaction (Ian Barry)
• The Howling (Joe Dante)
• Resurrection (Daniel Petrie)

Special Jury Award

• Resurrection (Daniel Petrie)

Critics Award

• The Howling (Joe Dante)
• Somewhere in Time (Jeannot Szwarc)

Terror Award

• Terror Eyes (Ken Hughes)

Grand Prize

• Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer)
• The Poodle (Bigas Luna)
• Nightwing (Arthur Hiller)
• KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (Gordon Hessler)
• The Fog (John Carpenter)
• The Cat and the Canary (Radley Metzger)
• Thirst (Rod Hardy)
• Silent Scream (Denny Harris)
• Mad Max (George Miller)
• When a Stranger Calls (Fred Walton)

Special Jury Award

• When a Stranger Calls (Fred Walton)
• Mad Max (George Miller)

Critics Award

• The Fog (John Carpenter)

Antennae II Award

• Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer)

Grand Prize

• Patrick (Richard Franklin)
• Battlestar Galactica (Richard A. Colla)
• Halloween (John Carpenter)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
• It Lives Again (Larry Cohen)
• Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston)
• Phantasm (Don Coscarelli)
• Plague (Ed Hunt)
• The Manitou (William Girdler)
• Tourist Trap (David Schmoeller)
• The Night, the Prowler (Jim Sharman)

Special Jury Award

• Phantasm (Don Coscarelli)

Special Mention

• Jim Sharman (The Night, the Prowler)

Critics Award

• Halloween (John Carpenter)

Antennae II Award

• Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)

Grand Prize

• Full Circle (Richard Loncraine)
• Demon Seed (Donald Cammell)
• Eaten Alive (Tobe Hooper)
• Eraserhead (David Lynch)
• Holocaust 2000 (Alberto De Martino)
• The Rat Savior (Krsto Papić)
• Kingdom of the Spiders (John 'Bud' Cardos)
• The Last Wave (Peter Weir)
• The Angel and the Woman (Gilles Carle)
• Photo-souvenir (Edmond Séchan)
• Ruby (Curtis Harrington)
• Rhinoceros (Tom O'Horgan)

Special Jury Award

• The Last Wave (Peter Weir)

Critics Award

• The Angel and the Woman (Gilles Carle)

Antennae II Award

• Eraserhead (David Lynch)

Grand Prize

• Carrie (Brian De Palma)
• Alice or the Last Escapade (Claude Chabrol)
• Futureworld (Richard T. Heffron)
• God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
• Squirm (Jeff Lieberman)
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (Jun Fukuda)
• The Big Bus (James Frawley)
• The Food of the Gods (Bert I. Gordon)
• To the Devil a Daughter (Peter Sykes)
• Who Can Kill a Child? (Narciso Ibáñez Serrador)
• Wizards (Ralph Bakshi)

Special Mention

• Sissy Spacek (Carrie)

Critics Award

• Who Can Kill a Child? (Narciso Ibáñez Serrador)

Audience Award

• The Big Bus (James Frawley)

Grand Prize

• A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom)
• Homebodies (Larry Yust)
• Race with the Devil (Jack Starrett)
• Conviene far bene l'amore (Pasquale Festa Campanile)
• Shivers (David Cronenberg)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
• The Bed Sitting Room (Richard Lester)
• The Final Programme (Robert Fuest)
• The Premonition (Robert Allen Schnitzer)
• Vampira (Clive Donner)
• Vampyres (José Ramón Larraz)

Special Jury Award

• The Bed Sitting Room (Richard Lester)
• The Final Programme (Robert Fuest)

Critics Award

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)

Grand Prize

• Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
• Flesh Gordon (Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm)
• It's Alive (Larry Cohen)
• Belladonna of Sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto)
• Playing with Fire (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
• Man on a Swing (Frank Perry)
• Phase IV (Saul Bass)
• Andy Warhol's Dracula (Paul Morrissey)
• The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (Roy Ward Baker)
• The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula)

Special Jury Award

• It's Alive (Larry Cohen)
• Phase IV (Saul Bass)

Critics Award

• The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula)

Grand Prize

• Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer)
• Dr. Phibes Rises Again (Robert Fuest)
• The Mole (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
• Hex (Leo Garen)
• Sssssss (Bernard L. Kowalski)
• Lisa and the Devil (Mario Bava)
• The Legend of Hell House (John Hough)
• The Satanic Rites of Dracula (Alan Gibson)
• Westworld (Michael Crichton)

Second Prize

• Hex (Leo Garen)

Special Jury Award

• The Mole (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Grand Prize

• Duel (Steven Spielberg)
• A Bay of Blood (Mario Bava)
• The Seed of Man (Marco Ferreri)
• Frogs (George McCowan)
• Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull)
• The Tin Girl (Marcello Aliprandi)
• Dunwich Horror (Daniel Haller)
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Robert Fuest)
• Themroc (Claude Faraldo)
• Birds, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko)

Second Prize

• Birds, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko)

Special Jury Award

• Themroc (Claude Faraldo)

Best Actor

• Michel Piccoli (Themroc)

Best Special Effects

• A Bay of Blood (Carlo Rambaldi)

Critics Award

• Themroc (Claude Faraldo)