 This made him the only film director whose first two feature films both won the award.In the second half of the 1980s and in the early 1990s Žižić served as head of Zagreb Film.In 2008 Žižić was awarded the Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement, and in 2009 Žižić was named as the inaugural winner of the Honorary Stamp life achievement award "for contributions to documentary filmmaking" at the 2009 ZagrebDox film festival, along with American filmmaker Jon Alpert.