Golden Eagle Award for Best Motion Picture

The Golden Eagle Award for Best Motion Picture (Russian: Золотой Орёл за лучший игровой фильм) is one of twenty award categories presented annually by the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia.

It is one of the Golden Eagle Awards, which were conceived by Nikita Mikhalkov as a counterweight to the Nika Award established in 1987 by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences.

[1] Each year the members of the academy choose five nominees.

The first film to be awarded was The Cuckoo, a comedy film about the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.

[2] The most recent award was given to A Siege Diary, in 2020.

Andrei Konchalovsky was together with Igor Maslennikov , the first to be nominated for a film as a director and as a producer, in 2002
Pavel Lungin was the first winner as a director and as a producer, in 2006
Alexander Rodnyansky holds the record for the most nominations, with nine, all of which as a producer. He won the prize twice, in 2005 and 2011
Seven of Bondarchuk 's works were nominated for the Eagle Award.