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{{short description|Indian film festival award}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2022}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Infobox award
| name = IFFI Best Film Award
| subheader = [[Golden Peacock]]
| image =
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| awarded_for = "Outstanding film of a high aesthetic and technical standard and educational and culture value"<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm12IIFAAward.aspx?PdfName=12IIFA.pdf# |title=Directorate of Film Festival |access-date=2018-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231211420/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm12IIFAAward.aspx?PdfName=12IIFA.pdf# |archive-date=2017-12-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| sponsor = [[International Film Festival of India]]
| firstawarded = {{Start date and age|1965||}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rrtd.nic.in/iffi-2002.htm|title=International Film Festival in India|website=rrtd.nic.in|access-date=31 March 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041121093039/http://rrtd.nic.in/iffi-2002.htm|archive-date=21 November 2004}}</ref>
| lastawarded = 2025
| reward =
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| holder_label = Most recent winner
| holder =''Skin of Youth''
| award1_type = Total awarded
| award1_winner = 38
| award2_type = First winner
| award2_winner =''[[Gamperaliya (film)|Gamperaliya]]''
| website =
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The '''IFFI Best Film Award''' (officially known as the '''Golden Peacock for the Best Feature Film''') is the main prize of the [[International Film Festival of India]] presented annually by the [[Directorate of Film Festivals]], the organisation set up by [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information and Broadcasting]] in India.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://iffigoa.org/asias-first-film-festivals-iffi-over-years/|title=One of Asia's First Film Festivals – IFFI over the years.|date=3 October 2017|access-date=9 January 2018|archive-date=8 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108175457/http://iffigoa.org/asias-first-film-festivals-iffi-over-years/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="PIB">{{cite web|title=Key highlights of the 46th International Film Festival of India|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=132010/|work=PIB|access-date=30 November 2015}}</ref> It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with the ''Golden Peacock'' a representation of the [[Peafowl|Peacock]], India’s national bird, with a permanent motto of the festival [[Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam]] (The whole world is a family).<ref name="GiovacchiniSklar2011">{{cite book|author1=Saverio Giovacchini|author2=Robert Sklar|title=Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vv09EtmRzUcC&pg=PA179|access-date=31 October 2012|date=1 December 2011|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-61703-122-9|pages=179–}}</ref> The award is announced for films produced in a year across the world. The award was instituted in 1965 from the [[3rd International Film Festival of India|3rd IFFI]] competitive edition.<ref name="GiovacchiniSklar2011">{{cite book|author1=Saverio Giovacchini|author2=Robert Sklar|title=Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vv09EtmRzUcC&pg=PA179|access-date=31 October 2012|date=1 December 2011|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-61703-122-9|pages=179–}}</ref><ref name="iffi.nic.in">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm3IIFAAward.aspx?PdfName=3IIFA.pdf|title=Directorate of Film Festival|website=iffi.nic.in|access-date=2018-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822074133/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm3IIFAAward.aspx?PdfName=3IIFA.pdf|archive-date=2016-08-22|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==List of recipients==
The award carries a cash prize of {{INRconvert|40|l}} shared equally between the director and producer. The director will receive the Golden Peacock and a certificate in addition to the cash prize. The producer will receive a certificate in addition to the cash.<ref name="iffiaw:variety">{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/iffi-goa-2024-winners-toxic-1236226082/ |title= Lithuanian Drama ‘Toxic’ Wins Top Prize at 55th International Film Festival of India |author= Naman Ramachandran, Patrick Frater |work= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date= 28 November 2024 |access-date=29 November 2024 |language=en}}</ref>

===Golden Peacock Award winners (Best Feature Film)===
{| class="wikitable unsortable"
|-
! Year !! Film !! Original Title !! Director !! Country
|-
||[[3rd International Film Festival of India|1965]]|| ''[[Gamperaliya (film)|Gamperaliya]]''||||[[Lester James Peries]] ||{{flag|Sri Lanka}}
|-
||[[4th International Film Festival of India|1969]]||''[[The Damned (1969 film)|The Damned]]'' || || [[Luchino Visconti]]||{{flag|Italy}}
|-
||[[5th International Film Festival of India|1974]] ||''Dreaming Youth'' || ||[[János Rózsás]] ||{{flag|Hungary}}
|-
||[[6th International Film Festival of India|1977]] ||''[[Brother and Sister (1976 film)|Brother and Sister]]'' ||''[[Brother and Sister (1976 film)|Ani Imōto]]''||[[Tadashi Imai]] ||{{flag|Japan}}
|-
||[[7th International Film Festival of India|1979]] ||''[[Hungarian Rhapsody (1979 film)|Hungarian Rhapsody]]'' |||| [[Miklós Jancsó]] ||{{flag|Hungary}}
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[8th International Film Festival of India|1981]] || ''The Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes''|| || [[Rangel Valchanov]] ||{{flag|Bulgaria}}
|-
|''[[Aakrosh (1980 film)|Aakrosh]]''
|
|[[Govind Nihalani]]
|{{flag|India}}
|-
||[[9th International Film Festival of India|1983]] ||Not Awarded ||Not Awarded || Not Awarded ||Not Awarded
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[10th International Film Festival of India|1985]] ||''[[The Bostonians (film)|The Bostonians]]'' || ||[[James Ivory]] ||{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|-
|''[[A Cruel Romance|Ruthless Romance]]''
|
|[[Eldar Ryazanov]]
|{{flag|Russia}}
|-
||[[11th International Film Festival of India|1987]]||''Farewell Green Summer''||''Proshal Zelen Leta''||Elyer Ishmukhamedov|| {{flag|Russia}}
|-
|| [[27th International Film Festival of India|1996]] || ''[[Blush (1995 film)|Blush]]'' || ||[[Li Shaohong]] || {{flag|China}}
|-
|| [[29th International Film Festival of India|1998]] || ''[[The King of Masks]]'' || ||[[Wu Tianming]] || {{flag|China}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[31st International Film Festival of India|2000]] || ''[[Karunam]]''|| Karunam ||[[Jayaraj]]|| {{flag|India}}
|-
|''[[Poppoya|Railroad Man]]''
|[[Poppoya]]
|[[Yasuo Furuhata]]
|{{flag|Japan}}
|-
|| [[33rd International Film Festival of India|2002]] || ''Letters to Elza'' || ||[[Igor Maslennikov]] || {{flag|Russia}}
|-
|| [[34th International Film Festival of India|2003]] || ''[[At Five in the Afternoon]]'' ||Panj é asr||[[Samira Makhmalbaf]] ||{{flag|Iran}} / {{flag|France}}
|-
||[[35th International Film Festival of India|2004]] || ''[[The Beautiful City]]'' ||Shah-re ziba||[[Asghar Farhadi]] ||{{flag|Iran}}
|-
||[[36th International Film Festival of India|2005]] || ''[[Iron Island (film)|Iron Island]]'' ||Jazireh ahani||[[Mohammad Rasoulof]] ||{{flag|Iran}}
|-
|| [[37th International Film Festival of India|2006]] || ''The Old Barber'' || ||[[Hasi Chaolu]] ||{{flag|China}}
|-
| [[38th International Film Festival of India|2007]] || ''The Wall'' ||||Lin Chih Ju ||{{flag|Taiwan}}
|-
|| [[39th International Film Festival of India|2008]] || ''[[Tulpan]]'' ||||[[Sergey Dvortsevoy|Sergei Dvortsevoy]] ||{{flag|Kazakhstan}} / {{flag|Russia}}
|-
||[[40th International Film Festival of India|2009]]|| ''[[Cannot Live Without You]]''||||[[Leon Dai]] ||{{flag|Taiwan}}
|-
||[[41st International Film Festival of India|2010]] || ''[[Moner Manush]]'' ||||[[Gautam Ghose]]|| {{flag|India}}
|-
||[[42nd International Film Festival of India|2011]] || ''[[Porfirio (film)|Porfirio]]'' ||||[[Alejandro Landes]]||{{flag|Colombia}} / {{flag|Argentina}}
|-
||[[43rd International Film Festival of India|2012]] || ''[[Anhe Ghore Da Daan]]'' ||||[[Gurvinder Singh (director)|Gurvinder Singh]]||{{flag|India}}
|-
||[[44th International Film Festival of India|2013]] || ''[[Beatriz's War]]'' ||A Guerra da Beatriz||Luigi Acquisto / [[Bety Reis]]||{{flag|Timor-Leste}}
|-
||[[45th International Film Festival of India|2014]] || ''[[Leviathan (2014 film)|Leviathan]]'' ||Leviafan||[[Andrey Zvyagintsev]] || {{flag|Russia}}
|-
||[[46th International Film Festival of India|2015]] || ''[[Embrace of the Serpent]]'' ||El abrazo de la serpiente||[[Ciro Guerra]] || {{flag|Colombia}}
|-
|[[47th International Film Festival of India|2016]] || ''[[Daughter (2016 film)|Daughter]]'' || [[:it:Dokhtar|Dokhtar]] || [[Reza Mirkarimi]] || {{flag|Iran}}
|-
|[[48th International Film Festival of India|2017]] || ''[[BPM (Beats per Minute)]]'' |||| [[Robin Campillo]] || {{flag|France}}
|-
|[[49th International Film Festival of India|2018]] || ''[[Donbass (film)|Donbass]]'' |||| [[Sergei Loznitsa]] || {{flag|Ukraine}}
|-
|[[50th International Film Festival of India|2019]] || ''[[Particles (film)|Particles]]'' ||''Les particules'' || Blaise Harrison || {{flag|France}} / {{flag|Switzerland}}
|-
|[[51st International Film Festival of India|2020]] || ''Into the Darkness'' ||''De forbandede år'' || [[Anders Refn]] || {{flag|Denmark}}
|-
|[[52nd International Film Festival of India|2021]] || ''[[Ring Wandering]]'' ||リング・ワンダリング || [[Masakazu Kaneko]] || {{flag|Japan}}
|-
|[[53rd International Film Festival of India|2022]] || ''[[I Have Electric Dreams]]'' || ''Tengo sueños eléctricos'' || [[Valentina Maurel]] || {{flag|Spain}}
|-
|[[54th International Film Festival of India|2023]] || ''Endless Borders'' || || Abbas Amini || {{flag|Iran}}
|-
|[[55th International Film Festival of India|2024]] || ''[[Toxic (2024 film)|Toxic]]'' ||''Akiplėša'' || [[Saulė Bliuvaitė]]||{{flag|Lithuania}}
|-
|[[56th International Film Festival of India|2025]] ||'' Skin of Youth''|| || Ash Mayfair||{{flag|Vietnam}}
|}

== Discontinued awards ==

===Silver Peacock Award winners (Best Feature Film)===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Edition !! Film !! Director !! Country
|-
||[[3rd International Film Festival of India|3rd]]|| [[Nirjan Saikate]] ||[[Tapan Sinha]] ||{{flag|India}}
|-
||[[29th International Film Festival of India|29th]]|| Paper Airplanes || Farhad Mehhranfar || {{flag|Iran}}
|-
||[[45th International Film Festival of India|45th]]|| [[Ek Hazarachi Note]] || [[Shrihari Sathe]] || {{flag|India}}
|-
|}

===Golden Peacock Award winners (Best Short Film)===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Edition !! Film !! Country
|-
||[[3rd International Film Festival of India|3rd]]|| ''Cyclone''||{{flag|Cuba}}
|-
||[[4th International Film Festival of India|4th]]||''Taking off at 1800 Hours''||{{flag|Cuba}}
|-
||[[5th International Film Festival of India|5th]] ||''Automatic''||{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}
|-
||[[6th International Film Festival of India|6th]] ||''After the Silence''||{{flag|India}}
|-
||[[7th International Film Festival of India|7th]] ||''An Encounter with Faces''<br>''Olympic Games''||{{flag|India}}<br>{{flag|Poland}}
|-
||[[8th International Film Festival of India|8th]] ||''A Period of Transition''||{{flag|Denmark}}
|-
||[[9th International Film Festival of India|9th]] ||Not Awarded||Not Awarded
|-
||[[10th International Film Festival of India|10th]] ||''[[Narcissus (1983 film)|Narcissus]]''||{{flag|Canada}}
|-
||[[11th International Film Festival of India|11th]] ||Not Awarded||Not Awarded
|-
|}

===Silver Peacock Award winners (Best Short Film)===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Edition !! Film !! Country
|-
||[[4th International Film Festival of India|4th]]|| Man and the Crow || {{flag|Sri Lanka}}
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://dff.nic.in Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India]
{{IFFI Best Film Award}}
{{International Film Festival of India}}
[[Category:Lists of Indian award winners]]
[[Category:International Film Festival of India]]
[[Category:Indian film festivals]]
[[Category:Festivals in Goa]]
[[Category:Awards for best film]]

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