Nika Award - Soviet Awards

Soviet Awards

• 1988

Georgia's Tengiz Abuladze won Best Picture and Best Director for Repentance.

• 1989

Russia's Aleksandr Proshkin won Best Picture for The Cold Summer of 1953, but other winners included films produced decades earlier and suppressed by Soviet censorship. For example, Alfred Schnittke won Best Music for the 1967 film Commissar, and Andron Konchalovsky was named Best Director for Asya Klyachina's Story, also filmed in 1967.

• 1990

Armenia's Sergei Parajanov took 4 awards including Best Picture and Best Director for his "Ashik Kerib".

• 1991

Ukraine's Kira Muratova won Best Picture for The Asthenic Syndrome, while Stanislav Govorukhin was named Best Director for We Can't Live Like This. Innokenty Smoktunovsky took the award as Best Actor.

• 1992

Eldar Ryazanov's The Promised Heaven triumphed at the last all-Soviet ceremony, taking the awards for Best Picture and Best Directing. Oleg Yankovsky and Inna Churikova were named Best Actor and Best Actress.