The City of Kraków Award is an award bestowed annually by the President of Kraków, Poland, for contributions relating to the city, and the popularization of its culture at home and abroad. It is given to prominent artists in the field of theatre, music, plastic arts and film, as well as to scholars and athletes. The applications can be submitted by the city cultural committee itself, as well as by art colleges, unions of art professionals, cultural institutions and publishers.
Applications for an award cannot be submitted by individuals. Among the institutions eligible to submit them are universities, arts and cultural organizations, the City Council committees, and sports associations, depending on the nomination category in which they are requested.
Recipients
Józef Baran
Jan Błoński
Leszek Długosz
Jarosław Duda
Jerzy Fedorowicz
Józef Andrzej Gierowski
Krzysztof Globisz
Zygmunt Konieczny
Stanisław Konturek
Julian Kornhauser
Robert Korzeniowski
Mariusz Kwiecień
Ewa Lipska
Krzysztof Meyer
Andrzej Mleczko
Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar
Jan Nowicki
Jerzy Nowosielski
Wiesław Ochman
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
Krzysztof Penderecki
Franciszek Pieczka
Anna Polony
Zbigniew Preisner
Dorota Segda
Marek Stachowski
Jerzy Stuhr
Anna Świrszczyńska
Jerzy Trela
Marcin Urbaś
Jan Woleński
Adam Zagajewski
Maciej Żurawski
Zdzisław Żygulski (art historian)