Films that Won the Stalin Prize or the USSR State Prize
Very roughly the equivalent of the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor, the Stalin Prize was awarded in various fields to those deemed to have made significant contributions to the Soviet Union. The prize did not recognize film every year; hence, some years are skipped in the below list. Also, in some years a specific film was recognized along with its director, whereas in others only an individual was named, and in still others the music for a film was recognized. The Stalin Prize was awarded from 1941 to 1954, at which time the name was changed to the USSR State Prize, which continued to be awarded until 1991.
1941: Alexander Dovzhenko: film Shchors
1941: Isaak Dunayevsky: Music for the films Circus and Volga-Volga
1941: Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller: film Suvorov
1946: Tikhon Khrennikov: Music for the film Six O’Clock in the Evening After the War
1948: The crew of the film Secret Agent
1950: Dmitri Shostakovich: Song of the Forests – music featured in The Fall of Berlin
1951: Sergei Bondarchuk: for his acting role in Taras Shevchenko
1951: Nikolai Cherkasov: for the film Alexander Popov (the role of Alexander Popov)
1951: Bruno Freindlich: for the film Alexander Popov (the role of Guglielmo Marconi)
1951: Isaak Dunaevsky: Music for the film The Kubansky Cossacks
1951: Faina Ranevskaya: for the film They Have Their Motherland
1977: Mikael Tariverdiev (composer whose music is featured in films [e.g., The Irony of Fate])
1979: Yuri Norstein (creator of animated films [e.g., The Tale of Tales or The Hedgehog in the Fog])
1991: Bulat Okudzhava (singer and songwriter, whose music has been featured in films [e.g., The Irony of Fate])
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