The Czech Lion awards are annual awards that recognize accomplishments in filmmaking

Filmmaking

Filmmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, directing, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a theatrical release or television program...

 and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

. It is the highest award of achievement in film awarded in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

. The jury is composed of members of the Czech Film and Television Academy (ČFTA).

Eligible films must have been released in the year prior to the awards ceremony, and must have been at least co-produced by a Czech film studio.

Categories

• Best Film
• Best Director
• Best Screenplay
• Best Cinematography
• Best Music
• Best Editing
• Best Sound
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Supporting Actor
• Best Supporting Actress
• Best Artistic Contribution to Czech Cinema
• Most Popular Film
• Best Documentary
• Best Film Poster

Also:

• The Magnesie Award for Best Foreign Film
• The Sazka Award for Best Unseen Screenplay
• The Film Critics' Award
• The Premiere
  Premiere (magazine)
  Premiere was an American and New York City-based film magazine published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., published between the years 1987 and 2007. The original version of the magazine, Première , was started in France in 1976 and is still being published there.-History:The magazine originally...
  
  Readers' Award
• The Stuffed Lion for the Worst Film (won three times by the series Kameňák)

Best film winners

Year	Name	Director
1993	Šakalí léta Šakalí léta Big Beat is Czech musical comedy of Jan Hřebejk from 1993. It take place at 1959 in Prague's Hotel International.- Plot :To peacefully small-town live entry "man from nowhere", young hooligan Bejby , he with his eccentric clothes, guittar and craze for rock 'n' roll disturb slack water of not only...
1994	Díky za každé nové ráno
1995	Zahrada The Garden (1995 film) The Garden is a 1995 Slovak feature film in cooperation with French Artcam International directed by Martin Šulík. The film is a poetic tale of Jakub, a man in his early 30s...
1996	Kolya Kolya Kolya is a 1996 Czech film drama about a man whose life is reshaped in an unexpected way. The film was directed by Jan Svěrák and stars his father Zdeněk Svěrák who also wrote the script from a story by Pavel Taussig.- Synopsis :...
1997	Knoflíkáři
1998	Je třeba zabít Sekala
1999	Návrat idiota
2000	Musíme si pomáhat
2001	Little Otik Little Otik Little Otik , also known as Greedy Guts, is a 2000 Czech film by Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová. Based on the folktale "Otesánek" by K J Erben, the film is a comedic live action, stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in an apartment building in the Czech Republic.The film uses the...
2002	Rok ďábla
2003	Nuda v Brně Nuda v Brně Nuda v Brně is a Czech comedy film. It was released in 2003....
2004	Horem pádem
2005	Something Like Happiness Something Like Happiness Something Like Happiness is a 2005 Czech movie directed by Bohdan Sláma. It is about finding hope in the midst of disappointment by three young people who grew up in the same run-down block of flats and are now coming of age. The film won the Golden Seashell at the San Sebastian Film...
2006	I Served the King of England
2007	Tajnosti
2008	Karamazovi Karamazovi The Karamazovs is a 2008 Czech film directed by Petr Zelenka with a soundtrack by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek. It tells the story of a group of Czech actors who come to Polish steelworks to perform a stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov at an alternative drama festival...
2009	Protector Protector (2009 film) Protector is a 2009 Czech film directed by Marek Najbrt.It is a story of Hana and Emil Vrbata, a couple living in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II.The general reception in Czech press and the audience was extremely positive...
2010	Pouta