The curtain fell on India’s biggest Film Festival, Jio MAMI 18th Mumbai Film Festival last evening. The ceremony which took place at Bal Gandharva Rangmandir, Bandra, saw a barrage of celebrities attending the same. World-renowned filmmakers, talent and Bollywood stars walked the red carpet to celebrate the end of Mumbai’s very own film festival’s latest edition.
Sonam Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Abhay Deol, Kabir Khan, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Abhijat Joshi, Rahul Bose, Kunal Kapoor, Zoya Akhtar, Ayan Mukerji, Vishal Bharadwaj, Anurag Kashyap, Shakun Batra, Konkona Sensharma, Rajkumar Hirani, Richa Chadda, Neha Sharma and others walked the red carpet at the closing ceremony along with film maker Kiran Rao, Festival Director Anupama Chopra. Shweta Tripathi and Vicky Kaushal hosted the event.
Moving further, winners under various categories were announced. Here's the full list:
HALF TICKET
The Golden Gateway Award (Feature) – ‘Hang in There, Kids!’ By Laha Mebow
The Silver Gateway Award (Feature) – ‘At Eye Level’ by Evi Goldbrunner and Joachim Dollhopf
Special mention (Feature) – ‘Colours of Innocence’ by Mrinmoy Mondal, Shupratim Bhol
The Golden Gateway Award (Short) – ‘A Town Called Panic: Back to School’ by Vincent Patar and Stephane Aubier
The Silver Gateway Award (Short) - ‘We Make Images’ by Nina Sabnani
Special Mention (Short) - The Best Sound in the World by Pedro Paulo De Andrade
BOOK AWARD
The Special Mention for Excellence in Writing on Cinema (Hindi) - ‘Naye Daur Ka Naya Cinema’ by Priyadarshan
The Special Mention for Excellence in Writing on Cinema (English) - ‘Kanan Devi: The First Superstar of Indian Cinema’ by Mekhala Sengupta
The Excellence in Writing on Cinema Award (Hindi) - Anil Bhargava for ‘Bhartiye Cinema ka Itihas’
The Excellence in writing on Cinema Award (English) - Jai Arjun Singh for ‘The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’
Young Critics Award - Matthew Vetticad
Young Critics Choice Award - ‘Cinema Travellers’ by Shirley Abraham and Amit Madhesiya
Oxfam Award for Best Film on Gender Equality - ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ by Alankrita Shrivastava
Mastercard Best India Female Filmmaker 2016 Award - Konkona Sensharma for the film ‘A Death in the Gunj’
Audience Choice Award - ‘The Salesman’ by Asghar Farhadi
DIMENSIONS MUMBAI
The Golden Gateway Award - Santosh Ganpat Kamble, Director of ‘Mumbai’s Mahuwa’
The Silver Gateway Award - Tabu Kaariya, Director of ‘Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh’
The Special Mention (Dimensions Mumbai) Award - ‘Bombai’ received by Director Yashwardhan Goswami
INDIA GOLD
The Golden Gateway Award - Haobam Paban Kumar for ‘Lady of the Lake’
The Silver Gateway Award - ‘The Narrow Path’ by Satish Babusenan and Santosh Babusenan
The Jury Grand Prize - Aicheng Jai Dohutia for ‘The Hidden Corner’
The Special Mention - ‘Autohead’ by Deepak Sampath and ‘Cinema Travellers’ by Shirley Abraham and Amit Madhesiya
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
The Golden Gateway Award - David Chou for ‘Diamond Island’
The Silver Gateway Award - Ralitza Petrova for ‘Godless’
The Jury Grand Prize - ‘Everything Else’ by Natalia Almada
Special Mention for Political Commitment of the Film - ‘When Two Worlds Collide’
The Special Mention - Macarena Arias for the film ‘Alba’
The dates for the 19th Edition of Jio MAMI with Star Film Festival were also announced. The event, next year, will take place between 12th October- 19th October, 2017.