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Golden Eagle Award for Best Motion Picture

The Golden Eagle Award for Best Motion Picture (russ. Золотой Орел для Лучший игровой фильм), or simply Golden Eagle for Best Motion Picture (though the correct title of this category is not known), is an annually on January awarded category and one of 20 presented by the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Russia (Национальной Академией кинематографических искусств и наук России). The ceremony is held at the Mosfilm studios, where some of the most acclaimed Soviet features were filmed. The prize, a golden alloyed eagle made from copper and its pedestal from jade, was created by sculptor Viktor Mitroshin. It was instituted by Nikita Mikhalkov as a counterweight to the prestigious Nika Award established in 1987 and run by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences in Moscow and given to films produced in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Golden Eagle Award is often described as the Russian Golden Globe and the Nike Awards as the Russian Nike Award.

The first film to be awarded was Кукушка, a comedy film about the Winter War between the rival nations Finland and Soviet Union at the World War II-era. The most recent award was made to Как я Пробел Зтим Летом, awarded in 2010.