The Golden Eagle Award for Best Television Motion Picture (

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. It is one of the Golden Eagle Awards, which were conceived by

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as a counterweight to the annual

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s given by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences. Each year the members of the academy choose three nominees from among

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s (movies directly released to television), which have been popular in Russia since the 1950s because of their inexpensive production. The movies therefore typically have only Russian titles. The category excludes

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s and

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, which have their own categories. The first film to be awarded was ''Spetsnaz''. The name of the award was changed to Golden Eagle Award for Best Mini-Series (up to 8 episodes) in 2004 and later Golden Eagle Award for Best Telefilm or Mini-Series (up to 10 episodes) in 2006, which merged

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with telefilms. Since then, the award has been won only by mini-series; no telefilms have received the prize since. The most recent award in 2020 was made to ''Odesskiy parokhod'' (''Одесский пароход''), which is based on

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's works and the first television movie to win the prize since the change.

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holds the record for the most wins, with three; other people with multiple nominations are

Gleb Panfilov Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (russian: Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов, link=no; born 21 May 1934 in Magnitogorsk) is an internationally acclaimed Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wif ...

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(both with two wins), Andrei Malyokov (with two wins and three nominations),

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Egor Baranov Egor Baranov (russian: Егор Баранов; born December 3, 1988 in Yekaterinburg) is a Russian film director. In 2006, he entered the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography for directing faculty, studied in the studio of Sergei Sol ...

, Alexey Andrianov (each with one win and one nomination),

Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov (Russian/ tg, Бахтиёр Худойназаров, fa, بختیار خدای‌نظرف) (May 29, 1965 – April 21, 2015) was a film director, producer and screenwriter from Tajikistan. His most internationally famou ...

, and Yuri Moroz (both with two nominations but no wins).

Nominations and awards

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External links

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