Awarded for Best Film of the Year Currently held by Athirah (2016) Country Indonesia Category of Citra Awards | First awarded 1955 Official website www.kkffi.or.id Instituted 1955 | |
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The Citra Award for Best Film is one of the Citra Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1955 (as Pekan Apresiasi Film Nasional) by the Indonesian Film Festival Committee to artists working in the motion picture industry. The actors and actresses in the film will not accept this awards times unless he or she produced the film.
The Best Film Award is considered the most important of the Citra Awards as well as the standard for a good quality film in Indonesian film industry, including all the directing, acting, music composing, writing and efforts put forth into a film production and receives much media attention. During the annual Indonesian Film Festival ceremony, Citra Award for Best Film is reserved as the final award presented and collected at the podium by the film's directors & producers.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. The Best Film category in 2006 Citra Awards has been removed due to controversial issues from its supposed winner.
For the first ceremony (as Pekan Apresiasi Film Nasional), the films were announced for winner only without nominations. For the following years during too long vacuum, the films were held back again in 1960. In 1967, 1977 and 1984, the films were not announced as winner. For the tenth ceremony, five films were nominated for the award to present, sometimes three and four films were competed.