The awards presented at the festival (called Golden Arenas) are the main national film awards in the country and they serve as the Croatian equivalent of the American Academy Awards, British BAFTA Awards, Spain's Goya Awards, France's César Award, etc.
In 1964 he won the "Silver Arena" award as Best Actor in the Pula Film Festival of Yugoslavian Films for the Fadil Hadžić movie Službeni položaj.
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She started appearing in television and feature films in mid 1990s, and her role in Snježana Tribuson's 1996 film Prepoznavanje won her the Golden Arena for Best Actress at the 1996 Pula Film Festival, the Croatian national film awards festival and she went on to win her second Golden Arena award in 2007 for starring in Dejan Aćimović's drama film I Have to Sleep, My Angel.
At the 1990 Pula Film Festival (the Yugoslavian version of the Academy Awards), the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović), and Best Makeup (Snježana Tomljenović).