The IFFI Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award (formerly IFFI Lifetime Achievement Award) is an international honor instituted by the International Film Festival of India. The recipient is honored for their "outstanding contribution to the growth and development of World cinema.
Background The award was first instituted in the year 1999 from the 30th IFFI. During the 52nd edition in 2021, on the occasion of the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray, the Directorate of Film Festivals in recognition of the auteur’s legacy, "The IFFI Lifetime Achievement award" was rechristened to "IFFI - Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award".
Phillip Noyce, a film and television director from Australia was the recipient of the award in the 2024.
Recipients
The Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award is an honor given at India's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to filmmakers for their significant contributions to world cinema, named after the Indian director. Instituted in 1999 and renamed in 2021 for Ray's birth centenary, past recipients include Martin Scorsese, Wong Kar-wai, Dilip Kumar, Phillip Noyce and in 2025 the great Indian Actor Rajnikanth.
Erstwhile Lifetime Achievement Award (1999–2020) EditionAwardeeNationalityCraft30th Bernardo Bertolucci Italian Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor34th Liv Ullmann Norwegian Film director, and actress 38th Dilip Kumar Indian Actor Lata Mangeshkar Indian Singer42nd Bertrand Tavernier French Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor43rd Krzysztof Zanussi Polish Film director, producer, and screenwriter44th Jiří Menzel Czech Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor45th Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong Film director, producer, screenwriter46th Nikita Mikhalkov Russian Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor47th Im Kwon-taek South Korean Film director48th Atom Egoyan Canadian Film director49th Dan Wolman Israeli / Palestinian Film director50th Isabelle Huppert French Actress51st Vittorio Storaro Italian Cinematographer
Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award (since 2021) EditionAwardeeNationalityCraft52nd Martin Scorsese American Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor István Szabó Hungarian Film director 53rd Carlos Saura Spanish Film director, producer, photographer, and actor 54th Michael DouglasAmericanFilm director, producer and Actor 55th Phillip Noyce Australian Film and television director 56th Rajnikanth Indian Actor
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India