Venice Film Festival

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The Venice Film Festival (Italian Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia) is the oldest film festival in the world. It began in 1932 as the Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica and since then has taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy. Screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi. It is one of the world's most prestigious film festivals and is part of the Venice Biennale, a major biennial exhibition and festival for contemporary art.

The festival's principal awards are the Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion), which is awarded to the best film screened at the festival, and the Coppa Volpi (Volpi Cup), which is awarded to the best actor and actress. Recently, a new award has been added, the San Marco Award for the best film in the "controcorrente" section.

The festival in 2005 held from 31 August to 10 September was the 62nd. For the 2006 festival see the 63rd Venice International Film Festival.

[edit] Golden Lion winners

See a list of winners at Golden Lion

[edit] Other awards

[edit] Mussolini Cup for best Italian Film

1934 Teresa confalonieri by Guido Brignone
1935 Casta Diva by Carmine Gallone
1936 Squadrone bianco by Augusto Genina
1937 Scipione l'Africano by Carmine Gallone
1938 Luciano serra pilota by Goffredo Alessandrini
1939 Abuna Messias by Goffredo Alessandrini
1940 L'assedio dell'Alcazar by Augusto Genina
1941 La coronoa di ferro by Alessandro Blasetti
1942 Bengasi by Augusto Genina

[edit] Mussolini Cup for best foreign film

1934 Man of Aran by Robert J. Flaherty(Great Britain)
1935 Anna Karenina by Clarence Brown(United States)
1936 Der Kaiser von Kalifornien by Luis Trenker(Germany)
1937 Un carnet de bal by Julien Duvivier (France)
1938 Olympia 1.Teil – Fest der Völker by Leni Riefenstahl(Germany)
1940 Der Postmeister by Gustav Ucicky(Germany)
1941 Ohm Krüger by Hans Steinhoff(Germany)
1942 Der große König by Veit Harlan(Germany)

[edit] Best director awards

1935 King Vidor for The Wedding Night
1936 Jacques Feyder for La Kermesse Héroique
1937 Robert J. Flaherty and Zoltan Korda for Elephant Boy
1938 Carl Froelich for Heimat

[edit] Silver Lion best direction

1990 Martin Scorsese for Goodfellas
1992 Bigas Luna for Jamón, jamón
1994 Gianni Amelio for Lamerica
1995 Abolfazl Jalili for Det Yani Dokhtar
1996 Kenneth Branagh for In the Bleak Midwinter (A Midwinter's Tale)
1997 Hirokazu Koreeda for Maboroshi no hikari
1998 Emir Kusturica for Crna Macka, Beli Macor
1999 Zhang Yuan for Guo Niam Hui Jia
2003 Takeshi Kitano for Zatoichi
2004 Kim Ki-duk for 3-Iron
2005 Philippe Garrel for Les Amants Réguliers
2006 Alain Resnais for Coeur

[edit] Silver Lion – Jury's special award

1951 A Streetcar Named Desire by Elia Kazan
1958 Les amants by Louis Malle and La sfida by Francesco Rosi
1959 Ansiktet by Ingmar Bergman
1960 Rocco e i suoi fratelli by Luchino Visconti
1961 Myr Vchodjashchcemu by Aleksandr Alov and Vlabymir Naumov
1962 Vivre sa vie by Jean-Luc Godard
1963 Le feu follet by Louis Malle and Vstuplijenije by Igor Talankin
1964 Il Vangelo secondo Matteo by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gamlet by Grigorij Kozincev
1965 Simón del desierto by Luis Buñuel, Mne Dvadcat' let by Marlen Khutsiev and Mobyga Mindre Män by Leif Krantz
1966 Chappaqua by Conrad Rooks and Abschied von gestern by Alexander Kluge
1967 La Cina è vicina by Marco Bellocchio and La Chinoise by Jean-Luc Godard
1968 Nostra Signora dei Turchi by Carmelo Bene and Le Socrate by Robert Lapojade
1981 Sogni d'oro by Nanni Moretti and Eles não usam black tie by Leon Hirszman
1982 Imperativ by Krzysztov Zanussi
1983 Biguefarre by Georges Rouquier
1984 Le favoris de la lune by Otar Ioseliani
1985 Tangos. El exilio de Gardel by Fernando E. Solanas
1986 Cuzaja, belaja i rjaboj by Sergei Solov'ëv and Storia d'amore by Francesco Maselli
1987 Hip, Hip, Hurra! by Kjell Grede
1988 Camp de Thiaroye by Sembène Ousmane and Thierno Faty Sow
1989 Et la lumière fut by Otar Iosseliani
1990 An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion
1991 A Divina Comédia by Manoel de Oliveira
1992 Morte di un matematico napoletano by Mario Martone
1993 Bad Boy Bubby by Rolf De Heer
1994 Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone
1995 A Comédia de Deus by João César Monteiro and L'uomo delle Stelle by Giuseppe Tornatore
1996 Brigands by Otar Iosseliani
1997 Ovosodo by Paolo Virzì
1998 Terminus Parabys by Lucian Pintilie
1999 Le vent nous emportera by Abbas Kiarostami
2000 Before Night Falls by Julian Schnabel
2001 Hundstage by Ulrich Seidl
2002 Dom Durakov - La maison des fous by Andrej Končalovskij
2003 Le cerf-volant by Randa Chahal Sabbag
2004 Mar adentro by Alejandro Amenábar
2005 Mary by Abel Ferrara
2006 Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun