Awards Awards presented to Kubrick for the film. They include three metal plaques from the "1a Mostra Internacional de Arte Cinematografica - Festival 'A Historia do Cinema Americano'" [First International Film Festival: 'The History of American Cinema'] for Best Director, Best Film and Best Screenplay. One Nastro D'Argento [Silver Ribbon] award from the Sindicato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani [Association of Italian Film Critics] for Best Director of a Foreign Film. There is also a rusted horse shoe attached to a wooden plaque which reads 'An excavation from the times of the huns as a good luck token to the producer James Harris of the picture 'Paths of Glory' yours L. Reiber, and a metal statue on a wooden support from the 1958 Premio Cantaclaro. [1957] - 1959