The Snake Award is the Polish ironic anti-
award for the worst cinematographic failures in
Polish cinema
The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish films tend to be less commercially available than films from several other European nations.
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, similar to the
Golden Raspberry Awards. It is awarded annually for the previous year. For the first time it was awarded in 2012. It was named after the film ''
Curse of Snakes Valley'', a 1987 Polish-Soviet adventure film, a cheap knock-off of the ''
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'' films, which was included in the list of 10 worst Polish films in 2002. The award was created by Polish film critic .
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The award is given in several categories: "Worst film", "Worst actor", "Worst actress", etc.
Worst films
*2012: '
*2013: ''Kac Wawa
''Kac Wawa'' is a 2012 Polish comedy film directed by Łukasz Karwowski. It tells the story of a group of men, one of whom is getting married, and therefore the others throw a buck's party for him.
Plot
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'' was nominated in 16 categories and won 7 of them: Worst film, Worst director, Worst screenplay, Most embarrassing scene, Unfunny comedy, Worst actor, Worst film duo
*2014: '
*2015: '
*2016:'
*2017:'' Smolensk'': Worst film, Worst director, Worst screenplay, Embarrassing film on an important subject, Worst actress, Worst film duo, Most embarrassing scene"Węże" przyznane. "Smoleńsk" bezkonkurencyjny
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*2018:'—despite its box office
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success, the film got nine "Snakes", everywhere where it was nominated.[
*2019:'
*2020:'
*2021:'' 365 Days'': Worst film, Worst screenplay, Worst actors' duo
*2022:'
*2023:'
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References
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Ironic and humorous awards
Polish film awards