The names of the winners of the film award "Word"

MOSCOW. On April 14, the capital’s theater center “On Strastnoy” hosted the presentation of the II Screen Prize “Word”, aimed at supporting young professionals, opening new names in cinematography and strengthening the prestige of the screenwriting profession. The award was established in 2013 in memory of the famous Russian film playwright Valentina Chernykh. The president, founder and chairman of the expert council was the widow of the playwright - Lyudmila Kozhinova - film critic, deputy chairman of the board of the screenwriters guild, associate professor of the department of film drama VGIK.

A competent jury composed of writer Yuri Korotkov, director Sergei Snezhkin, producer Sabina Eremeeva, screenwriter Alexander Rodionov, actress Elena Yakovleva and film expert Larisa Malyukova traditionally handed out awards in four different nominations.

The Word Prize in the nomination “Best Feature Film Scenario” was received by Leviathan, a film by director Andrei Zvyagintsev and his co-author Oleg Negin. The jury chose two films for the best debut script: “Another Year” by Natalia Meshchaninova and Lyubov Mulmenko, as well as “Correction Class” by authors Ivan Tverdovsky and Dmitry Lanchikhin.

This year, the works of students of state educational institutions, as well as the scripts of graduates of the Academy of Communication Wordshop and the Moscow School of Cinema, were presented in the nomination "Best Graduation Script". The award in this category went to Aleksey Borodachev, who wrote a script entitled “How Vitka Garlic brought Lyokha Shtyr to the house of disabled people”. In the nomination of scripts for television films, Nikolay Lyrchikov, who wrote the script for the series The Departing Nature, won. The playwright Odelsh Agishev was awarded with a special honorary prize “For Fidelity to the Profession”.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru