In 1991 the festival was cancelled due to the breakup of Yugoslavia, but then resumed in 1992 as the Croatian film awards festival, from then on excluding films and filmmakers from present-day Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and North Macedonia.
[B] The festival's competition program usually includes screenings of all locally produced feature films made in the preceding 12 months, made possible due to the local film industry's relatively low but highly state subsidized output.
This means that everyone involved in making them automatically qualifies for the Golden Arena awards.
Therefore there are no Academy Award-style lists of nominees announced prior to the actual awarding ceremony.
[2] Amid the breakup of Yugoslavia and the escalation of violence in 1991 in the early stages of the Croatian War of Independence, the festival was abruptly cancelled in 1991 immediately after the scheduled opening in late July.