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On March 29 on the Main Stage the “Petar Banićević” Award was presented to this year’s winner, Jovana Stojiljković, for the role of Sofka in the play “Impure Blood”.

At a brief but comely ceremony held after the performance of the play based on the motifs from Borisav Stanković’s novel, dramatized by Maja Todorović and directed by Milan Nešković, the presenter of the award was Iva Banićević, the granddaughter of the famous actor, after whom the award has been named.

The unanimous decision about the award, presented by the National Theatre in Belgrade to a young actor or actress under 40 who stood out in artistic sense in the previous period, but who also showed high professionalism in work and attitude towards the national theatre, was made by the jury chaired by the retired premier stage actress, Dobrila Stojnić, and the members were the Drama Manager, Molina Udovički Fotez, and the last winner of the “Petar Banićević" Award, Suzana Lukić.

“Thanks to her immense talent and dedicated work, Jovana Stojiljković illuminated every flicker of Sofka's complex character and breathed life into her with an extremely refined sense of partner play, and showed how much respect and awareness a young artist can have that a play is, above all, a collective artistic act”, it is stated in the jury’s elaboration.

The "Petar Banićević" Award was first presented in 2011, and the previous laureates are: Igor Đorđević, Nenad Stojmenović, Miloš Đorđević, Nada Šargin, Pavle Jerinić, Sena Đorović, Bojan Krivokapić and Suzana Lukić.