1 | Fipresci Award 4th Mumbai I.F.F. - 2000 | Mumbai - India |
2 | Platinum Award Houston International Film Festival - 2001 | USA |
3 | Jurry Award 7th Dhaka IFF - 2002 | Dhaka - Bangladesh |
4 | Golden Reel Award Sanfrancisco Fribourg I.F.F. - 2002 | Switzerland |
5 | Special Jury Award Honalulu International Film Festival - 2003 | Honalulu |
FOR THE FILM
1 | Famous Film [3rd] 27 වැනි සරසවිය සම්මාන උළෙල - 2002 |
FOR ARTISTS
1 | Best Director 27 වැනි සරසවිය සම්මාන උළෙල - 2002 | බෙනට් රත්නායක |
2 | Best Actress 27 වැනි සරසවිය සම්මාන උළෙල - 2002 | සංගීතා වීරරත්න |
3 | Best Cameraman 27 වැනි සරසවිය සම්මාන උළෙල - 2002 | Channa Deshapriya |
4 | Best Music Director 27 වැනි සරසවිය සම්මාන උළෙල - 2002 | හර්ෂ මාකලන්ද |
5 | Best Art Director 27 වැනි සරසවිය සම්මාන උළෙල - 2002 | Sena Mambulage |
6 | Best Make-Up Artist 27 වැනි සරසවිය සම්මාන උළෙල - 2002 | Ranjith Wickramasinghe |
7 | Best Make-Up Artist 27 වැනි සරසවිය සම්මාන උළෙල - 2002 | Imal Shanaka Peiris |
8 | Best Performance Award 27 වැනි සරසවිය සම්මාන උළෙල - 2002 | මහේන්ද්ර පෙරේරා |
Benette Ratnayake\'s internationally
acclaimed maiden film "Aswesuma" (The Compensation)
won seven awards including one for the best direction at the
recently held \'Sarasavi\' film festival in addition to
several other international awards.\'Aswesuma\' earlier won
Platinum Award for the Best First Feature at the 34th Houston
IFF., Special Jury Award (Fipresci) by Federation of
International Film Critics at the 4th Mumbai IFF. and Special
Jury Award- Don Quijote at 7th Dhaka IFF. In addition the
movie was an entry at other world renowned film festivals
including Moscow IFF, Montreal IFF and Kerala IFF.