Golden Lion
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The Golden Lion (Italian: Leone d'Oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes. In 1970, a second Golden Lion was introduced; this is an honorary award for people who have made an important contribution to cinema.
The prize was introduced in 1949 as the Golden Lion of St. Mark.[1] Previously, the equivalent prize was the Gran Premio Internazionale di Venezia (Grand International Prize of Venice), awarded in 1947 and 1948. Before that, from 1934 until 1942, the highest awards were the Coppa Mussolini (Mussolini Cups) for Best Italian Film and Best Foreign Film.
No Golden Lions were awarded between 1969 and 1979. According to the Biennale's official website, this hiatus was a result of the 1968 Lion being awarded to the radically experimental Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos; the website says that the awards "still had a statute dating back to the fascist era and could not side-step the general political climate. Sixty-eight produced a dramatic fracture with the past."[2]
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[edit] Grand International Prize of Venice
- 1947 Siréna by Karel Stekly
- 1948 Hamlet by Laurence Olivier
[edit] Golden Lion
- 1949 Manon by Henri-Georges Clouzot
- 1950 Justice Is Done (Justice est faite) by André Cayatte
- 1951 Rashōmon by Akira Kurosawa
- 1952 Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) by René Clement
- 1953 No award
- 1954 Romeo and Juliet by Renato Castellani
- 1955 Ordet by Carl Theodor Dreyer
- 1956 No award (due to a tie between Harp of Burma by Kon Ichikawa and Calle Mayor by Juan Antonio Bardem)[1]
- 1957 Aparajito by Satyajit Ray
- 1958 Rickshaw Man by Hiroshi Inagaki
- 1959 General della Rovere by Roberto Rosselini and The Great War by Mario Monicelli
- 1960 Le passage du Rhin by André Cayatte
- 1961 Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais
- 1962 Family Diary by Valerio Zurlini and Ivan's Childhood by Andrei Tarkovsky
- 1963 Hands Over the City by Francesco Rosi
- 1964 Red Desert by Michelangelo Antonioni
- 1965 Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa by Luchino Visconti
- 1966 The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
- 1967 Belle de jour by Louis Buñuel,
- 1968 Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos by Alexander Kluge
- No awards 1969-1979
- 1980 Atlantic City by Louis Malle and Gloria by John Cassavetes
- 1981 Marianne and Juliane by Margarethe von Trotta
- 1982 The State of Things by Wim Wenders
- 1983 First Name: Carmen by Jean-Luc Godard
- 1984 The Year of the Quiet Sun by Krzysztof Zanussi
- 1985 Vagabond by Agnès Varda
- 1986 The Green Ray by Éric Rohmer
- 1987 Au revoir, les enfants by Louis Malle
- 1988 La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore by Ermanno Olmi
- 1989 A City of Sadness by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- 1990 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
- 1991 Urga by Nikita Mikhalkov
- 1992 The Story Of Qiu Ju by Zhang Yimou
- 1993 Short Cuts by Robert Altman and Three Colors: Blue by Krzysztof Kieślowski
- 1994 Vive L'Amour by Tsai Ming-liang and Before The Rain by Milčo Mančevski
- 1995 Cyclo by Anh Hung Tran
- 1996 Michael Collins by Neil Jordan
- 1997 Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano
- 1998 The Way We Laughed by Gianni Amelio
- 1999 Not One Less by Zhang Yimou
- 2000 The Circle (Dayereh) by Jafar Panahi
- 2001 Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair
- 2002 The Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan
- 2003 Vozvrashcheniye by Andrey Zvyagintsev
- 2004 Vera Drake by Mike Leigh
- 2005 Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee
- 2006 Still Life by Jia Zhangke
[edit] Golden Lion – Honorary Award
- 1970 Orson Welles
- 1971 Ingmar Bergman, Marcel Carné and John Ford
- 1972 Charles Chaplin, Anatali Golovnia and Billy Wilder
- 1982 Alessandro Blasetti, Luis Buñuel, Frank Capra, George Cukor, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergei Jutkevic, Alexander Kluge, Akira Kurosawa, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, King Vidor and Cesare Zavattini
- 1983 Michelangelo Antonioni
- 1985 Manoel de Oliveira, John Huston and Federico Fellini
- 1986 Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
- 1987 Luigi Comencini and Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1988 Joris Ivens
- 1989 Robert Bresson
- 1990 Marcello Mastroianni and Miklos Jancso
- 1991 Mario Monicelli and Gian Maria Volonté
- 1992 Jeanne Moreau, Francis Ford Coppola and Paolo Villaggio
- 1993 Steven Spielberg, Robert de Niro, Roman Polanski and Claudia Cardinale
- 1994 Al Pacino, Suso Cecchi d'Amicho and Ken Loach
- 1995 Woody Allen, Monica Vitti, Martin Scorsese, Alberto Sordi, Ennio Morricone, Giuseppe de Santis, Goffredo Lombardo and Alain Resnais
- 1996 Robert Altman, Vittorio Gassman, Dustin Hoffman and Michele Morgan
- 1997 Gerard Depardieu, Stanley Kubrick and Alida Valli
- 1998 Warren Beatty, Sophia Loren and Andrzej Wajda
- 1999 Jerry Lewis
- 2000 Clint Eastwood and Éric Rohmer
- 2002 Dino Risi
- 2003 Dino de Laurentiis and Omar Sharif
- 2004 Stanley Donen and Manoel de Oliveira
- 2005 Hayao Miyazaki, Stefania Sandrelli and Isabelle Huppert
- 2006 David Lynch
- 2007 Tim Burton
[edit] Notes
- ^ Roos, Fred. "Venice Film Festival, 1956" in The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television, Vol. 11, No. 3. (Spring, 1957), p. 249.
