Dimitris Horn Award

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Dimitris Horn Award is a Greek annual, honorary award and is given for the best performance by a young male actor in the past theatre season. The award, which bears the name of Dimitris Horn, an actor recognised as the best contemporary Greek theatre actor, was established in 2000 by Stamatis Fasoulis and Theodosis Isaakidis, with the financial support of Yannis Horn, the actor's brother. [1]
The prize of the award is the gold cross worn by the actor, which is passed from one awardee to another every year, accompanied by a cash prize of 3000 euro. [2] Candidates must be graduates of a drama school or have performed professionally for the first time no more than five years before the theatre period for which they are honoured.

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...these awards are not a simple process. We follow the actors' progress over time and their attitude towards things, towards the theatre, an art form that is primarily handmade. There are many good actors out there, but in order not to be unfair to anyone, the awards are not given for the hit of the moment, but because there has been struggle and dedication. Then the award makes sense.

The award ceremony takes place every year at the "Dimitris Horn Theatre" (formerly "Dionysia Theatre"). The "Committee of the Dimitris Horn Award" is currently composed of: Stamatis Fassoulis (chairman), Lydia Koniordou, theatrologist Irini Moudraki and the journalists Myrto Loverdou and Antigoni Karali as members. [3] Members of the committee have been the theatrologist Kostas Georgousopoulos (chairman), Eleni Chatziargyri and Xenia Kalogeropoulou.

The future of the award is unknown as the initial fund from which the prize money was given is running out. The organiser of the awards, Stamatis Fassoulis, have sought the support of the Ministry of Culture to take over the funding of the award (3,000 euros per year) but nothing has been decided yet. [4]

Recipients

YearRecipientPlayRoleProductionRefs / Notes
2001 Dimitris Imellos  [ el ] The Illusion (play) MatamoreTheatre Company "Dolihos" [5]
2002 Argyris Xafis  [ el ] The Turn of the Screw (play) The ManTheatre of the New World [6]
2003 Christos Loulis Erotokritos ErotokritosDipetheK
(Μunicipal Regional Theater of Crete)
[7]
2004 Kostas Vasardanis Translations (play) ManusSimple Theater [8]
2005 Nikos Kardonis "The one that doesn't end: Greek poetry of the 20th century - Edition II"dramatized poemsExperimental stage of National Theater of Greece [9] Nikos Kardonis was nominated for the award for third time
2006 Kostas Gakis  [ el ]"The cockroach"he performed 16 different rolesTheatre of the New World [10] Gakis also wrote the music of the play
2007 Giannos Perlegas  [ el ]"The milk"AdonisNational Theater of Greece [11]
2008 Thanasis Alevras  [ el ]"Heroes"Natalia Alexeievna Bratuska SimeonidisAthens Theater Company [12]
2009 Makis Papadimitriou "Motortown"LeeTheatre of the New WorldPapadimitriou was nominated for the award for the second time [13]
2010 Mixalis Oikonomou "Masked (play) DaoudTheatre of the New World [14]
2011 Thanasis Tokakis  [ el ] Twelfth Night Sir Andrew Aguecheek Elliniki Theamaton [15]
2012 Dimitris Lalos La Chunga (play) Hosefino"NAMA' group [16]

Dimitris Lalos is not a graduate of a drama school, so in order to be awarded, the Committe removed from the statute the condition that was in force until then, to be the awarded graduate of a reputable drama school. [17]

2013 Haris Fragoulis When Nietzsche Wept (novel) Sigmund Freud "Thiseion, a theatre for the Arts" [18] adaptation from the novel
2014 Giorgos Hrisostomou  [ el ] Mistero Buffo The fool"Thiseion, a theatre for the Arts" [19]
2015 Michalis Sarantis  [ el ] Flandro
Hippolytus (play)
Notis Serdaris
Messenger
"National Theater of Greece" [20]
2016 Argyris Pantazaras  [ el ] King Lear
"ΑΩ"
the fool
monologue
Giorgos Kimoulis, actor [21]
2017 Konstantinos Bibis  [ el ]"The Oedipus Tree" Oedipus "Thiseion, a theatre for the Arts" [22]
2018Giannis Niarros"Sleep Stella"Giorgos Gerakaris"National Theatre of Greece" [23]
2019 Michalis Syriopoulos  [ el ] Candide
The City (play)
Candide
Kimonas
"PORTA"
"Athens Epidaurus Festival"
[24]
2020 Giorgos Tsouris "170 square metres (Moonwalk)"GrigorisTheater company "Ma Non Troppo" [25]
2021Anastasis Roilos"The Glass Menagerie"Jim O'Connor National Theater of Greece a [26]
2022Fotis Stratigos"Cost of Living (play)"John"Porta Theater" a [27]
2023Dimitris Kapouranis"Tebas Land"Martin/Federico a [28]

Note

^a Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece the award ceremony was postponed The awards were given at the 2024 award ceremony

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