Žanka Stokić award

The Žanka Stokić (Serbian Cyrillic: Жанка Стокић) is the distinguished award for acting in Serbian theater. It is awarded only to actresses.

History of the award begins in 2001 when famous Serbian actress Mira Stupica (1923-2016) celebrated her 60-years of acting. On the stage, she publicly called for establishing the Velika Žanka award (Great Žanka), in honor of Žanka Stokić (1887-1947), today generally considered the best theatrical Serbian actress ever. Ill-fated Žanka, once the most celebrated Serbian actress was jailed and condemned (nearly being executed in the process) by the Communist regime in the post-war Yugoslavia as a collaborator during World War II, simply because she was performing during the war years.[1][2]

Mira Stupica and her husband, famous Slovenian-Yugoslav theatrical director and theater manager Bojan Stupica were great admirers of Žanka Stokić, and Bojan Stupica managed to convince new authorities to let her act again, but she died before she returned to the stage. Also, Mira Stupica pointed out that there are no appropriate awards for actresses in their prime, when they are too old for the debutant awards and still too young for the life-time awards.[1]

In 2002 it was announced that new annual award will be established next year, under the name of Žanka Stokić award. Stupica was the president for life of the award jury.[2][3] In 2020, it was announced that the award will become biennial, initially for the 2020–2021 period.[4]

## Laureates[edit]

Laureates:

* 2003: Svetlana Bojković (1947)[5]
* 2004: Milena Dravić (1940-2018)[6]
* 2005: Radmila Živković (1952)[7]
* 2006: Đurđija Cvetić [sr] (1942-2015)[8]
* 2007: Ružica Sokić (1934-2013)[9]
* 2008: Seka Sablić (1942)[10]
* 2009: Gordana Đurđević-Dimić [sr] (1961)[11]
* 2010: Dara Džokić [sr] (1955)[12]
* 2011: Mirjana Karanović (1957)[13]
* 2012: Ljiljana Blagojević (1955)[14]
* 2013: Ljiljana Stjepanović [sr] (1952)[15]
* 2014: Mira Banjac (1929)[16]
* 2015: Anita Mančić (1968)[17]
* 2016: Jasna Đuričić (1966)[18]
* 2017: Olga Odanović (1958)[19]
* 2018: Nataša Ninković (1972)[20]
* 2019: Gorica Popović (1952)[2]
* 2021: Tanja Bošković (1953)[21]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Glumica 20. veka: Po ovome ćemo pamtiti Miru Stupicu" [Actress of the 20th century: This is why we will remember Mira Stupica] (in Serbian). Alo. 19 August 2016.
2. ^ a b c Borka Golubović Trebješanin (11 May 2019). "Горици Поповић награда "Жанка Стокић"" ["Žanka Stokić" awarded to Gorica Popović]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 17.
3. ^ "Tužna godina bez Mire Stupice: Njen glas bio je orkestracija emocija, a njen osmeh cela scena" [Sad year without Mira Stupica: Her voice was an orchestration of emotions and her smile was the entire stage] (in Serbian). Gloria. 19 August 2017.
4. ^ SeeCult (27 May 2021). "Konkurs za bijenalnu nagradu Žanka Stokić za 2020. i 2021" [Competition for the biennial award Žanka Stokić for 2020 and 2021] (in Serbian). SeeCult.org.
5. ^ Vukica Strugar (9 January 2003). ""Žanka" za nezaborav" ["Žanka" for non-oblivion] (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti.
6. ^ Vukica Strugar (8 February 2004). "Prekobrojna među zvezdama" [Prekobrojna among the stars] (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti.
7. ^ ""Žanka" Radmili" ["Žanka" for Radmila] (in Serbian). Blic. 21 January 2005.
8. ^ "Nagrada "Žanka Stokić" Djurdjiji Cvetić" ["Žanka Stokić" award goes to Đurđija Cvetić] (in Serbian). Mondo. 8 February 2006.
9. ^ ""Žanka Stokić" Ružici Sokić" ["Žanka Stokić" for Ružica Sokić] (in Serbian). Blic. 16 February 2007.
10. ^ Vukica Strugar (29 January 2008). ""Žanka" Seki Sablić" ["Žanka" for Seka Sablić] (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti.
11. ^ "Гордана Ђурђевић Димић у четвртак добија Жанкину награду" [Gordana Đurđević Dimić receives Žanka's award in Thursday] (in Serbian). Radio Television of Vojvodina. 23 March 2009.
12. ^ Tanjug (25 February 2010). "Dara Džokić dobitnica nagrade "Žanka Stokić"" [Dara Džokić laureate of the "Žanka Stokić" award] (in Serbian). Radio Television of Vojvodina.
13. ^ Vukica Strugar, M.Mirković (6 March 2011). "Karanović: Najveća nagrada u životu" [Karanović: the greatest award in (my) life] (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti.
14. ^ Borka G. Trebješanin (27 February 2012). "Ljiljani Blagojević "Žanka Stokić"" ["Žanka Stokić" for Ljiljana Blagojević] (in Serbian). Politika.
15. ^ Beta (23 March 2013). "Glumici Ljiljani Stjepanović nagrada "Žanka Stokić"" [Actress Ljiljana Stjepanović awarded with the "Žanka Stokić" award] (in Serbian). Politika.
16. ^ "Mira Banjac dobitnica nagrade "Žanka Stokić"" [Mira Banjac laureate of "Žanka Stokić" award] (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti. 10 March 2014.
17. ^ Vukica Strugar (29 March 2015). "Nagrada "Žanka Stokić" uručena Aniti Mančić" ["Žanka Stokić" award handed out to Anita Mančić] (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti.
18. ^ Tanjug (8 April 2016). "Jasni Đuričić nagrada "Žanka Stokić"" [Jasna Đuričić awarded the "Žanka Stokić" award] (in Serbian). Blic.
19. ^ Vukica Strugar (29 March 2017). ""Žanka" Olgi Odanović" ["Žanka" for Olga Odanović] (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti.
20. ^ K.D. (22 March 2018). "Nataša Ninković dobitnica Nagrade "Žanka Stokić"" [Nataša Ninković laureate of the "Žanka Stokić" award] (in Serbian). Danas.
21. ^ "Glumica Tanja Bošković dobitnica Nagrade "Žanka Stokić"" [Actress Tanja Bošković laureate of the "Žanka Stokić" award]. National Theatre in Belgrade (in Serbian). 23 December 2021.

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Žanka Stokić Award

* Svetlana Bojković (2003)
* Milena Dravić (2004)
* Radmila Živković (2005)
* Đurđija Cvetić (2006)
* Ružica Sokić (2007)
* Seka Sablić (2008)
* Gordana Đurđević-Dimić (2009)
* Dara Džokić (2010)
* Mirjana Karanović (2011)
* Ljiljana Blagojević (2012)
* Ljiljana Stjepanović (2013)
* Mira Banjac (2014)
* Anita Mančić (2015)
* Jasna Đuričić (2016)
* Olga Odanović (2017)
* Nataša Ninković (2018)
* Gorica Popović (2019)
* Tanja Bošković (2021)

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