Director for Mongol. Sergey Garmash was named Best Actor for Nikita Mikhalkov's 12, and Leonid Bronevoy was named Best Supporting Actor. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Georgi Daneliya. 2009 Valery Todorovsky won Best Picture for Hipsters. Aleksei German Jr was named Best Director for Paper Soldier. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Aleksei German Sr. 2010 Andrei Khrzhanovsky won Best Picture for A Room and a Half. The Best Actress Award was won by Svetlana Kryuchkova for her role in Bury Me Behind the Baseboard, and the Best Actor Award was won by Vladimir Ilyin for his role in Ward No. 6 and posthumously by Oleg Yankovsky for his roles in Anna Karenina and Tsar. 2011 Alexei Uchitel won Best Picture for The Edge. Alexei Popogrebski was named Best Director for How I Ended This Summer. 2012 Andrei Smirnov won Best Picture for Once Upon a Time There Lived a Simple Woman. Andrey Zvyagintsev - Best Director for Elena. 2013 Best Feature Film -- Faust, directed by Alexander Sokurov 2014 Best Feature Film Winner: The Geographer Drank His Globe Away, directed by Alexander Veledinsky Nominees: Kiss!, directed by Zhora Krizovnicka A Long and Happy Life, directed by Boris Khlebnikov Metro, directed by Anton Megerdichev Stalingrad, directed by Fedor Bondarchuk Best Film of the CIS and Baltic: The Excursionist, Khaytarma () 2015 Best Feature Film -- Miliyy Khans, dorogoy Pyotr, directed and produced by Aleksandr Mindadze Best Documentary -- Valentina Kropivnitskaya v poiskakh poteryannogo raya (In Search of a Lost Paradise), directed by Evgeniy Tsymbal, produced by Alexander Smoljanski 2017 Best Feature Film -- Paradise, directed and produced by Andrei Konchalovsky 2019 Best Feature Film -- A Frenchman, directed by Andrei Smirnov See also Cinema of Russia Cinema of the Soviet Union List of Russian films History of Russian animation References External links Russian film awards Soviet awards Awards established in 1987 1987 establishments in the Soviet Union Nika Awards