The Vladimir Nazor Award ( hr, Nagrada Vladimir Nazor) is a

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n prize for arts and culture established in 1959 and awarded every year by the Ministry of Culture. Named after the writer

Vladimir Nazor Vladimir Nazor (30 May 1876 – 19 June 1949) was a Croatian poet and politician. During and after World War II in Yugoslavia, he served as the first President of the Presidium of the Croatian Parliament (Croatian head of state), and first S ...

(1876–1949), the prize is awarded to Croatian artists for achievements in six different fields of art and culture, and in each category every year two separate prizes are awarded - one for life achievement (for overall contributions to their respective field), and another one, commonly referred to as the "annual award", for a single piece of outstanding work in the field created over the previous 12 months. The winners for the preceding year are usually announced around 19 June, the anniversary of Nazor's death, with prizes handed to recipients in an official ceremony usually held in July.

List of Life Achievement Award winners

Awards marked with † denote shared wins. Source:

Architecture and urbanism

* 1965 – Mladen Kauzlarić * 1966 –

Juraj Denzler Juraj is a given name used in a number of Slavic languages, including Czech, Slovak, and Croatian. Pronounced "You-rye" but with a trilled r. The English equivalent of the name is George (disambiguation), George. Notable people * Juraj Chmiel, Cze ...

* 1967 – Stjepan Planić * 1968 – Alfred Albini * 1969 – Josip Seissel * 1970 – Stjepan Gomboš † * 1970 – Lavoslav Horvat † * 1971 – Antun Ulrich * 1972 – Drago Galić * 1973 – Marijan Haberle * 1974 – Vlado Antolić * 1975 – Lovro Perković * 1976 – Slavko Löwy * 1977 – Zvonimir Vrkljan * 1978 –

Božidar Rašica Božidar Rašica (28 December 1912 – 13 September 1992) was an architect, scenographer and painter. Career Rašica was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to Serbian parents. He studied in Rome, Belgrade, Warsaw and finally Zagreb, where he gradua ...

* 1979 – Franjo Bahovec * 1980 – Stanko Fabris * 1981 – Božidar Tušek * 1982 – Andre Mohorovičić * 1983 –

Zdenko Kolacio Zdenko is a male given name of Slovak, Slovene or Croatian origin. It is the Slavic version of the name Sidonius (meaning ''of Sidon''). Other explanation are given as coming from the slavic term '' zidati'', meaning to build or to create or '' ...

* 1984 –

Ivan Vitić Ivan Vitić (1917–1986) was a Croatian architect important to the development of Architectural Modernism in Yugoslavia. Life Ivan Vitić was born on February 21, 1917, in Šibenik, Austria-Hungary. He graduated from the Faculty of Engine ...

* 1985 –

Neven Šegvić Nevena may refer to the following articles * ''stefan'' (album), a 2013 album by M-Flo * Neven (given name), a Slavic masculine name * Neven Bell, a character from the ''Monk'' TV series * Hartmut Neven (born 1964), German scientist working in com ...

* 1986 –

Dragan Boltar Dragan Boltar (18 March 1913 – 16 February 1988) was a Croatian architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Oly ...

* 1987 –

Aleksandar Dragomanović Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

* 1988 –

Miroslav Begović Miroslav may refer to: * Miroslav (given name), a Slavic masculine given name * ''Young America'' (clipper) or ''Miroslav'', an Austrian clipper ship in the Transatlantic case oil trade * Miroslav (Znojmo District), a town in the Czech Republic S ...

* 1989 –

Zdravko Bregovac Zdravko () is a masculine given name of South Slavic origin derived from word "zdrav" meaning "healthy". Notable people with the name include: *Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian singer *Zdravko Ježić, Croatian water polo player * Zdravko Kovačić, Croa ...

* 1990 –

Zdenko Sila Zdenko is a male given name of Slovak, Slovene or Croatian origin. It is the Slavic version of the name Sidonius (meaning ''of Sidon''). Other explanation are given as coming from the slavic term '' zidati'', meaning to build or to create or '' ...

* 1991 –

Boris Magaš Boris Magaš ( Karlovac, August 22, 1930 – Rijeka, October 24, 2013) was a Croatian architect and architectural theorist, former Secretary of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and recipient of the Croatian National order of chivalry ...

* 1992 – Vjenceslav Richter * 1993 – Grozdan Knežević * 1994 – Ivo Radić * 1995 – Zoja Dumenagić * 1996 – Bruno Milić * 1997 – Sena Sekulić-Gvozdanović * 1998 – Ivo Geršić * 1999 – Jerko Marasović † * 1999 – Tomislav Marasović † * 2000 – Silvana Seissel * 2001 – Julije De Luca * 2002 – Ante Marinović-Uzelac * 2003 – Andrija Mutnjaković * 2004 – Slavko Jelinek * 2005 – Mirko Maretić * 2006 – Ante Rožić * 2007 – Ante Vulin * 2008 – Nikola Filipović * 2009 – Boris Krstulović * 2010 – Dinko Kovačić * 2011 – Radovan Miščević * 2012 – Hildegard Auf-Franić * 2013 –

Radovan Delalle Radovan ( sr-cyr, Радован) is a Slavic names, Slavic male given name, derived from the passive adjective ''radovati'' ("rejoice"), itself from root ''rad-'' meaning "care, joy". It is found in Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovin ...

* 2014 – Ivan Crnković * 2015 – Josip Uhlik * 2016 – Branko Kincl * 2017 – Antun Šatara * 2018 – Branko Silađin * 2019 – Ivan Čižmek * 2020 – Vinko Uhlik * 2021 – Đuro Mirković

Film

* 1967 – Oktavijan Miletić * 1970 –

Branko Marjanović Branko Marjanović (Zagreb, 12 May 1909 - Zagreb, 13 February 1996) was a Yugoslav film director and editor. He graduated from drama school in Zagreb, gained movie experience in Prague and worked on educational filming in Zagreb. During World War ...

* 1973 –

Fedor Hanžeković Fedor Hanžeković (9 January 1913 – 18 August 1997) was a Croatian film director. Hanžeković had studied art history and English language at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences before starting his filmmaking c ...

* 1974 – Branko Blažina * 1975 –

Antun Nalis Antun Nalis (9 February 1911 – 14 February 2000), a.k.a. Tonči Nalis, was a Croatian actor. Antun Nalis was born in Zadar, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. After World War I Zadar became part of Italy, which later helped Nalis ...

* 1976 – Rudolf Sremec * 1977 – Branko Majer * 1978 – Obrad Gluščević * 1979 – Branko Belan * 1980 – Branko Bauer * 1981 – Aleksandar Marks * 1982 – Mate Relja * 1983 –

Krešo Golik Krešimir "Krešo" Golik (20 May 1922 – 20 September 1996) was a Croatian film and television Film director, director and screenwriter. In a creative career spanning five decades between the late 1940s and late 1980s, Golik directed a numbe ...

* 1984 – Fadil Hadžić * 1985 – Nikola Tanhofer * 1986 –

Vatroslav Mimica Vatroslav Mimica (25 June 1923 – 15 February 2020) was a Croatian film director and screenwriter. Early life Born in Omiš, Mimica had enrolled at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine before the outbreak of World War II. In 1942 he ...

* 1987 –

Ante Babaja Ante Babaja (6 October 1927 – 14 January 2010) was a notable Croatian film director and screenwriter. Babaja finished high school in Zagreb before going on to enrol at the University of Zagreb where he studied law and economy. He started worki ...

* 1988 –

Tomislav Pinter Tomislav Pinter (16 June 1926 – 15 August 2008) was a Croatian cinematographer, regarded as the most significant cinematographer in Croatian cinema due to the artistic quality of his work and his prolific career spanning almost five decades. ...

* 1989 – Frano Vodopivec * 1990 – Antun Vrdoljak * 1991 –

Fabijan Šovagović Fabijan Šovagović (4 January 1932 – 1 January 2001) was a Croatian film, television and theatre actor, and writer. Biography Šovagović was born in the village of Ladimirevci, in the Slavonia region of Croatia, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. ...

* 1992 – Zvonimir Berković * 1993 – Radojka Tanhofer * 1994 –

Pavao Štalter Pavao Štalter ( Karanac, 25 November 1929 – Zagreb, 5 October 2021) was a Croatian animator, director, screenwriter, scenographer and artist. He is known for his many animation shorts he produced at Zagreb Film. Filmography *"Stvari" (1965, ...

* 1995 – Željko Senečić * 1996 – Mia Oremović * 1997 – Tea Brunšmid * 1998 –

Boris Dvornik Boris Dvornik (; 16 April 1939 – 24 March 2008) was a Croatian actor. Biography Born in Split to the family of a carpenter, Dvornik discovered acting talent at an early age, while performing in children's plays. After studying to become an e ...

* 1999 – Ante Peterlić * 2000 – Duško Jeričević * 2001 – Ernest Gregl * 2002 – Borivoj Dovniković * 2003 – Ilija Ivezić * 2004 –

Vladimir Tadej Vladimir Tadej (9 May 1925 – 1 March 2017) was a Croatian production designer, screenwriter and film director. He contributed to more than forty films from 1949 to 1998. Selected filmography References External links * 1925 births ...

* 2005 –

Zoran Tadić Zoran Tadić (2 September 1941 – 9 September 2007) was a Croatian film director, critic, and pedagogue. Zoran Tadić is considered as one of the most important Croatian film directors, having directed more than twenty films from 1969 to 1997. ...

* 2006 –

Krsto Papić Krsto Papić (7 December 1933 – 7 February 2013) was a Croatian screenwriter and film director whose career spanned over five decades. He is generally considered among the best directors of former Yugoslavia and the only director from Croatia t ...

* 2007 – Arsen Dedić * 2008 –

Bogdan Žižić Bogdan Žižić (8 November 1934 – 29 April 2021)Veljko Bulajić * 2010 –

Božidarka Frajt Božidarka Frajt (also spelled Frait; born 11 November 1940) is a Croatian actress. In her six decade long career, she has composed a prolific repertoire in Croatian television, film and theatre, but is best known for her role in cinéma vérit� ...

* 2011 – Hrvoje Turković * 2012 – Ivica Rajković * 2013 – Nedeljko Dragić * 2014 – Ivo Štivičić * 2015 – Eduard Galić * 2016 –

Božidar Smiljanić Božidar Smiljanić (20 September 1936 – 7 April 2018) was a Yugoslav-Croatian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films from 1953 to 2018. His son is popular actor Mitja Smiljanić. Filmography References External links * 1936 b ...

* 2017 –

Rajko Grlić Rajko Grlić (born 2 September 1947) is a Croatian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of film theory at Ohio University and artistic director of the Motovun Film Festival in Motovun, Croatia. Biography Rajko Grlić wa ...

* 2018 – Rade Šerbedžija * 2019 –

Vera Zima Vjeročka Zimova (21 March 1953 – 7 November 2020), better known as Vera Zima, was a Croatian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films since 1975. She was of paternal Slovak descent. Selected filmography References External links ...

* 2020 –

Branko Ivanda Branko Ivanda (born 25 December 1941) is Croatian film director and screenwriter. Ivanda was born in Split, then under Italian occupation. His father Leo was a high-school professor of Croatian and French language and his mother Dunja a clerk. The ...

* 2021 – Petar Krelja

Literature

* 1962 – Miroslav Krleža * 1967 – Vjekoslav Kaleb † * 1967 –

Dragutin Tadijanović Dragutin Tadijanović (4 November 1905 – 27 June 2007) was a Croatian poet, and in his native Croatia he is referred to as a "Bard." Tadijanović was born in the village of Rastušje close to Slavonski Brod in the region of Slavonia. He pu ...

† * 1968 – Dobriša Cesarić † * 1968 –

Gustav Krklec Gustav Krklec (23 June 1899 – 30 October 1977) was a Croatian writer and translator. Krklec was born in 1899 in Udbinja near Karlovac. In 1900, he moved with his family to Maruševec, a village near Varaždin. He studied in Vienna and Zagre ...

† * 1969 – Vjekoslav Majer * 1970 – Nikola Šop * 1971 – Miroslav Feldman * 1972 – Šime Vučetić * 1973 – Novak Simić * 1974 – Marijan Matković * 1975 –

Ranko Marinković Ranko Marinković (22 February 1913 – 28 January 2001) was a Croatian novelist and dramatist. Born in Komiža on the island of Vis (then a part of Austria-Hungary), Marinković's childhood was marked by World War I. He later earned a degree i ...

* 1976 – Vladimir Popović * 1977 – Drago Ivanišević * 1978 – Joža Horvat * 1979 –

Marin Franičević Marin (French) or Marín (Spanish "sailor") may refer to: People * Marin (name), including a list of persons with the given name or surname * MaRin, in-game name of professional South Korean ''League of Legends'' player Jang Gyeong-hwan (born 19 ...

* 1980 –

Josip Barković Josip () is a male given name found among Croats and Slovenes, a cognate of Joseph. In Croatia, the name Josip was the second most common masculine given name in the decades up to 1959, and has stayed among the top ten most common ones throughout ...

* 1982 – Vesna Parun * 1983 – Jure Franičević-Pločar * 1984 – Aleksandar Flaker † * 1984 – Jure Kaštelan † * 1985 – Mirko Božić * 1986 – Vojin Jelić * 1987 – Živko Jeličić * 1988 –

Ivan Slamnig Ivan Slamnig (24 June 1930 – 3 July 2001) was a Croatian poet, novelist, literary theorist and translator. Slamnig was born in Metković. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1955 and later taug ...

* 1989 –

Slobodan Novak Ante Slobodan Novak (3 November 1924 – 25 July 2016) was a Croatian writer and novelist. He is best known for his novel ''Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh'' (1968), often listed as one of the best Croatian novels of the 20th century. Biography N ...

* 1990 – Olinko Delorko * 1991 – Petar Šegedin * 1992 – Ivo Frangeš * 1993 – Srećko Diana * 1994 – Nikola Miličević * 1995 – Rajmund Kupareo * 1996 – Slavko Mihalić * 1997 –

Ivan Kušan Ivan Kušan (30 August 1933 – 20 November 2012) was a Croatian writer. Kušan was born in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the family of Jakša Kušan, a bookstore owner. The family moved to Zagreb in 1939. At the age of ten Ivan discovered ...

* 1998 – Miroslav Slavko Mađer * 1999 – Vesna Krmpotić * 2000 – Stanko Lasić * 2001 –

Ivo Brešan Ivan "Ivo" Brešan (27 May 1936 – 3 January 2017) was a Croatian and Yugoslav playwright, novelist and screenwriter, known for political satire. His work included screenplays written with his son Vinko. Personal life Born in Vodice 1936, Breša ...

* 2002 – Gajo Peleš * 2003 – Viktor Žmegač * 2004 –

Josip Tabak Josip () is a male given name found among Croats and Slovenes, a cognate of Joseph. In Croatia, the name Josip was the second most common masculine given name in the decades up to 1959, and has stayed among the top ten most common ones throughout 2 ...

* 2005 – Irena Vrkljan * 2006 – Miroslav Šicel * 2007 – Nedjeljko Fabrio * 2008 –

Zvonimir Mrkonjić Zvonimir Mrkonjić (; born 1938 in Split, Croatia) is a prominent and award-winning Croatian playwright, poet and academic. Biography Born and raised in Split, Mrkonjić moved to Zagreb after finishing high school. In 1961, he graduated with ...

* 2009 – Milivoj Solar * 2010 –

Ivan Aralica __NOTOC__ Ivan Aralica (born 10 September 1930) is a Croatian novelist and essayist. Born in Promina, Croatia, Promina near Knin, and having finished pedagogical school and Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zadar, Aralica had worked sin ...

* 2011 – Nikica Petrak * 2012 – Luko Paljetak * 2013 –

Tonko Maroević Tonko is a South Slavic masculine given name. In Croatian, it is a hypocorism of the name Antun and other cognates of Antonius. It is found in Slovene as a diminutive form of Anton, Antonij, and Antonijo in Slovenia. Given name *Tonko Lonza ...

* 2014 – Zvonimir Majdak * 2015 – Pavao Pavličić * 2016 – Dubravko Jelčić * 2017 – Feđa Šehović * 2018 – * 2019 – Andriana Škunca * 2020 – Dubravka Oraić-Tolić * 2021 –

Hrvoje Hitrec Hrvoje Hitrec (born 14 July 1943) is a Croatian writer, screenwriter, and politician. He is notable for his works for children and youth, most famous of his works being the novel (and later a very popular 1980s/90s TV series) '' Smogovci'' :hr ...

Music

* 1960 – Svetislav Stančić * 1963 – Josip Križaj * 1964 – Jakov Gotovac * 1965 – Antonija Geiger-Eichhorn † * 1965 – Ančica Mitrović † * 1968 – Boris Papandopulo * 1969 – Vilma Nožinić * 1970 – Ivo Tijardović * 1971 – Nada Tomčić * 1972 – Marijana Radev * 1973 – Stjepan Šulek * 1974 – Ivan Brkanović * 1975 – Bruno Bjelinski * 1976 – Milo Cipra * 1977 – Ivo Maček * 1978 – Branimir Sakač * 1979 – Slavko Zlatić * 1980 – Dora Gušić * 1981 – Rudolf Matz * 1982 – Natko Devčić * 1983 – Milko Kelemen * 1984 – Jeronim Noni Žunec * 1985 –

Emil Cossetto Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *'' Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *'' Emil and the Detecti ...

* 1986 –

Milan Horvat Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has ...

* 1987 – Rudolf Klepač * 1988 –

Miljenko Prohaska Miljenko Prohaska (17 September 1925 – 29 May 2014) was a Croatian composer, music arranger and orchestra conductor. He was mainly known for founding a number of prominent Croatian orchestras and for his longtime service as the conductor of ...

* 1989 – Dragutin Bernardić * 1990 – Tomislav Neralić * 1991 – Adalbert Marković * 1992 – Nada Puttar-Gold * 1993 – Jurica Murai * 1994 – Stjepan Radić * 1995 – Anđelko Klobučar * 1996 – Ruža Pospiš-Baldani * 1997 – Mladen Bašić * 1998 – Igor Gjadrov * 1999 – Ljiljana Molnar-Talajić * 2000 – Josip Klima * 2001 – Stanko Horvat * 2002 – Božena Ruk-Fočić * 2003 – Tonko Ninić * 2004 – Pavle Dešpalj * 2005 – Vladimir Krpan * 2006 – Branka Stilinović * 2007 – Damir Novak * 2008 – Zagreb Quartet * 2009 – Nikša Bareza * 2010 – Ruben Radica * 2011 – Mirka Klarić * 2012 – * 2013 – Pavica Gvozdić * 2014 – Prerad Detiček * 2015 – Alfi Kabiljo * 2016 – Vladimir Kranjčević * 2017 –

Dubravko Detoni Dubravko Detoni (born 22 February 1937) is a composer, pianist and writer. Although active since the early 1970s he is almost unknown internationally. He was born in Križevci, Croatia, educated in Zagreb, Sienna, Warsaw and Darmstadt, and stu ...

* 2018 –

Dunja Vejzović Dunja Vejzović (; born 20 October 1943, Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia) is an operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano from Croatia. Biography Dunja Crnković was born in Zagreb and was married in 1963, changing her surname to Vejzović. She ...

* 2019 – Valter Dešpalj * 2020 – Sretna Meštrović * 2021 – Višnja Mažuran

Theatre

* 1964 – Mila Dimitrijević * 1966 –

Zvonimir Rogoz Zvonimir Rogoz (10 October 1887 – 6 February 1988) was a Croatian actor who played in German, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech and Slovakian, on stage and in cinema, during a career long 81 years. A native of Zagreb, Rogoz started his acto ...

* 1968 – Tomislav Tanhofer * 1969 –

Viktor Bek The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...

† * 1969 – Božena Kraljeva † * 1969 – Vika Podgorska † * 1970 – Slavko Batušić † * 1970 –

Veljko Maričić Veljko Maričić (23 March 1907 – 30 October 1973) was a Croatian actor. He appeared in more than fifteen films from 1944 to 1972. Selected filmography Awards * Vladimir Nazor Award The Vladimir Nazor Award ( hr, Nagrada Vladimir Nazor ...

† * 1971 – Mato Grković * 1972 – Bela Krleža * 1973 – Anđelko Štimac * 1974 – Emil Kutijaro * 1975 – Ervina Dragman * 1976 – Ivo Hergešić * 1977 – Vlado Habunek * 1978 – Ana Roje † * 1978 – Oskar Harmoš † * 1979 – Mira Župan * 1980 – Mirko Perković * 1981 – Zvonko Agbaba * 1982 – Ana Maletić * 1983 – Josip Marotti * 1984 – Mladen Šerment * 1985 – Kosta Spaić * 1986 –

Pero Kvrgić Pero Kvrgić (4 March 1927 – 23 December 2020) was a Croatian actor. Career Kvrgić was born in Srpske Moravice to Serb father and Austrian mother. He trained as an actor in the schools of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (HNK) after ...

* 1987 – Vesna Butorac-Blaće * 1988 – Mladen Škiljan * 1989 – Drago Krča * 1990 – Miše Martinović * 1991 – Sonja Kastl * 1992 –

Tonko Lonza Tonko Lonza (29 September 1930 – 23 December 2018) was a Croatian actor. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1959. Filmography Awards * Vladimir Nazor Award The Vladimir Nazor Award ( hr, Nagrada Vladimir Nazor) is a Croatian prize ...

* 1993 – Milka Podrug-Kokotović * 1994 – Božidar Violić * 1995 – Tomislav Durbešić * 1996 – Aleksandar Augustinčić * 1997 – Nada Subotić * 1998 – Zvjezdana Ladika * 1999 – Relja Bašić * 2000 – Joško Juvančić * 2001 – Neva Rošić * 2002 – Milko Šparemblek * 2003 – Ika Škomrlj * 2004 – Nikola Batušić * 2005 –

Vanja Drach Vanja Drach (1 February 1932 – 6 September 2009) was a Croatian theatre and film actor. His film and television credits include '' H-8'', ''Lud, zbunjen, normalan'', '' Gospa'', '' Charuga'', '' Kapelski kresovi'', ''Nikola Tesla'', '' Svjedoc ...

* 2006 – Vanča Kljaković * 2007 – Georgij Paro * 2008 – Zlatko Crnković * 2009 – Vladimir Gerić * 2010 –

Zlatko Vitez Zlatko Vitez (born 22 June 1950 in Varaždin) is a Croatian theatre and film actor. He also served as the Croatian Minister of Culture in the period between October 1994 and November 1995 in the Cabinet of Nikica Valentić. Vitez graduated from ...

* 2011 – Špiro Guberina * 2012 – Nenad Šegvić * 2013 – Božidar Boban * 2014 – Marija Kohn * 2015 – Ivica Boban * 2016 – Mustafa Nadarević * 2017 –

Dragan Despot Dragan Despot (born 14 July 1956) is a Croatian actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 1979. Despot graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art at the University of Zagreb, where his teacher was Tonko Lonza in 1981. In 1983 he j ...

* 2018 – Marija Sekelez * 2019 – Helena Buljan * 2020 – Branka Cvitković * 2021 – Ivica Kunčević

Visual and applied arts

* 1961 – Frano Kršinić * 1963 – Marino Tartaglia * 1964 – Ljubo Babić † * 1964 – Oton Postružnik † * 1965 – Oskar Herman * 1966 – Mirko Rački † * 1966 –

Vilko Gecan Vilko Gecan (16 June 1894 – 25 June 1973) was a Croatian painter, influential in the Zagreb modern art scene of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best known for his expressionist paintings and drawings, and for his contributions to the local avantgard ...

† * 1968 – Jerolim Miše * 1969 – Antun Motika † * 1969 – Zlatko Šulentić † * 1970 –

Marijan Detoni Marijan is a male Croatian first name. The Macedonian version of this name is Marjan. Marijan is also a last name found in Croatia. People named Marijan *Marijan Beneš – Croatian boxer * Marijan Brkić Brk – Croatian musician * Marijan ...

† * 1970 – Krsto Hegedušić † * 1971 – Antun Mezdjić * 1972 – Frano Šimunović * 1973 – Vilko Šeferov * 1974 – Stella Skopal * 1975 – Vjekoslav Parać * 1976 –

Oton Gliha Oton Gliha (Črnomelj, 21 May 1914 - Zagreb, 19 July 1999) was a Croatian artist, born in Slovenia. A graduate of the Academy of fine Arts in Zagreb, Gliha continued his studies in Paris, Vienna and Munich. He is best known for his series of abs ...

* 1977 – Vilim Svečnjak * 1978 – Ante Roca † * 1978 – Slavko Šohaj † * 1979 – Vojin Bakić * 1980 –

Zlatko Prica Zlatko ( sr-Cyrl, Златко, ) is a South Slavic masculine given name. The name is derived from the word ''zlato'' meaning gold with hypocoristic suffix ''-ko'' common in South Slavic languages. Zlatko is a given name. Notable people with the na ...

† * 1980 – Milan Vulpe † * 1981 – Edo Kovačević * 1982 – Mira Kovačević-Ovčačik † * 1982 – Željko Hegedušić † * 1983 – Ljubo Ivančić † * 1983 – Oto Reisinger † * 1984 – Ksenija Kantoci * 1985 – Branko Ružić † * 1986 – Kosta Angeli Radovani * 1987 – Ivan Šebalj * 1988 – Želimir Janeš * 1989 – Šime Perić * 1990 – Ferdinand Kulmer * 1991 – Ivan Lovrenčić * 1992 – Dalibor Parać * 1993 – Mladen Veža * 1994 –

Ivan Picelj Ivan Picelj (28 July 1924 – 22 February 2011) was a contemporary Croatian painter, sculptor and graphic designer. Picelj developed a specific variation of geometric abstraction in Croatian painting by using primary colours and by reducing the sh ...

* 1995 – Milena Lah * 1996 – Đuro Pulitika * 1997 – Ivan Kožarić * 1998 – Nikola Reiser * 1999 –

Aleksandar Srnec Aleksandar Srnec (30 July 1924 – 27 March 2010) was a Croatian artist. He is mainly known for his avant-garde designs and kinetic and lumino kinetic art. Srnec was one of the founding members of the Exat 51 group whose active members between ...

* 2000 –

Edo Murtić Edo Murtić (4 May 1921 – 2 January 2005) was a painter from Croatia, best known for his lyrical abstraction and abstract expressionism style. He worked in a variety of media, including oil painting, gouache, graphic design, ceramics, mosaic ...

* 2001 – Đuro Seder * 2002 – Julije Knifer * 2003 – Nives Kavurić-Kurtović * 2004 –

Zlatko Bourek Zlatko Bourek (4 September 1929 – 11 May 2018) was a Croatian-Jewish film director, screenwriter, production designer, cartoonist and expert on Jewish culture. Bourek was born in Požega. He was raised in Osijek, where he moved at the age o ...

* 2005 – Vjekoslav Vojo Radoičić * 2006 – Josip Vaništa * 2007 –

Dušan Džamonja Dušan Džamonja ( sr, Душан Џамоња, ; 31 January 1928 – 14 January 2009) was a Yugoslav sculptor of Serbian ancestry. Education and career Džamonja was born in 1928 in Strumica, former Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. I ...

* 2008 – Nikola Koydl * 2009 – Alfred Pal * 2010 – Šime Vulas * 2011 – Ivan Ladislav Galeta * 2012 – Marija Ujević-Galetović * 2013 –

Mladen Stilinović Mladen Stilinović (10 April 1947 – 18 July 2016) was a Croatian conceptual artist and one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia. He lived and worked in Zagreb, Croatia. Early life Stilinović was born in Belg ...

* 2014 –

Jagoda Buić Jagoda Buić (14 March 1930 – 17 October 2022) was a Croatian visual artist best known for her monumental fiber art installations and tapestries, which won her critical acclaim in the latter half of the 20th century. Early years Born in the ...

* 2015 – Zlatko Keser * 2016 – Eugen Feller * 2017 – Biserka Baretić * 2018 – Nevenka Arbanas * 2019 – Mihajlo Arsovski * 2020 –

Juraj Dobrović Juraj Dobrović (; born 1928 in Jelsa, Croatia) is a Croatian artist working in the media of sculpture, painting and graphic arts. The focus of his art is mainly oriented towards geometrical structures. He makes use of light effects to emphasize ...

* 2021 – Slavka Pavić

Notes

:nb 1. Classical music composer

Ivo Malec Ivo Malec (30 March 1925, in Zagreb – 14 August 2019, in Paris) was a Croatian-born French composer, music educator and conductor. One of the earliest Yugoslav composers to obtain high international regard, his works have been performed by ...

turned down the prize in 2012. Following Malec's refusal, the ministry decided not to choose another recipient. In 2018, writer Danijel Dragojević also refused to accept the prize.

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Vladimir Nazor Award
at the Ministry of Culture website {{in lang, hr Arts awards in Croatia Awards established in 1959 1959 establishments in Croatia Croatian film awards Architecture in Croatia Croatian literature Croatian music