GOLDEN LION

The 'Golden Lion' () 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 ''; 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]

Contents

Grand International Prize of Venice

Golden Lion

Golden Lion – Honorary Award

See also

Notes

Grand International Prize of Venice

Year	Title	Director
1947	''Siréna''	Karel Stekly
1948	''Hamlet''	Laurence Olivier

Golden Lion

Year	Title	Director
1949	''Manon''	Henri-Georges Clouzot
1950	''Justice Is Done'' (''Justice est faite'')	André Cayatte
1951	''Rashōmon''	Akira Kurosawa
1952	''Forbidden Games'' (''Jeux interdits'')	René Clement
1953	No award
1954	''Romeo and Juliet''	Renato Castellani
1955	''Ordet''	Carl Theodor Dreyer
1956	No award[1]
1957	''Aparajito''	Satyajit Ray
1958	''Rickshaw Man''	Hiroshi Inagaki
1959	''General della Rovere'' ''The Great War''	Roberto Rosselini Mario Monicelli
1960	''Le passage du Rhin''	André Cayatte
1961	''Last Year at Marienbad''	Alain Resnais
1962	''Family Diary'' ''Ivan's Childhood''	Valerio Zurlini Andrei Tarkovsky
1963	''Hands Over the City''	Francesco Rosi
1964	''Red Desert''	Michelangelo Antonioni
1965	''Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa''	Luchino Visconti
1966	''The Battle of Algiers''	Gillo Pontecorvo
1967	''Belle de jour''	Luis Buñuel
1968	''	Alexander Kluge
No awards 1969-1979
1980	''Atlantic City'' ''Gloria''	Louis Malle John Cassavetes
1981	''Marianne and Juliane''	Margarethe von Trotta
1982	''The State of Things''	Wim Wenders
1983	''	Jean-Luc Godard
1984	''The Year of the Quiet Sun''	Krzysztof Zanussi
1985	''Vagabond''	Agnès Varda
1986	''The Green Ray''	Éric Rohmer
1987	''Au revoir, les enfants''	Louis Malle
1988	''La leggenda del santo bevitore''	Ermanno Olmi
1989	''A City of Sadness''	Hou Hsiao-Hsien
1990	''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead''	Tom Stoppard
1991	''Urga''	Nikita Mikhalkov
1992	''Qiu Ju da guan si (The Story of Qiu Ju)''	Zhang Yimou
1993	''Short Cuts'' ''	Robert Altman Krzysztof Kieślowski
1994	''Vive L'Amour'' ''Before The Rain''	Tsai Ming-liang Milčo Mančevski
1995	''Cyclo''	Anh Hung Tran
1996	''Michael Collins''	Neil Jordan
1997	''Hana-bi (Fireworks)''	Takeshi Kitano
1998	''Così ridevano (The Way We Laughed)''	Gianni Amelio
1999	''Yi ge dou bu neng shao (Not One Less)''	Zhang Yimou
2000	''Dayereh (The Circle)''	Jafar Panahi
2001	''Monsoon Wedding''	Mira Nair
2002	''The Magdalene Sisters''	Peter Mullan
2003	''Vozvrashcheniye (The Return)''	Andrey Zvyagintsev
2004	''Vera Drake''	Mike Leigh
2005	''Brokeback Mountain''	Ang Lee
2006	''Sanxia haoren (Still Life)''	Jia Zhangke
2007	''Se, jie (Lust, Caution)''	Ang Lee

Golden Lion – Honorary Award

Year	Winner(s)
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'Amico 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

See also

★ Palme d'Or, the highest prize given at the Cannes Film Festival

Notes

1. Due to a tie between ''Harp of Burma'' by Kon Ichikawa and ''Calle Mayor'' by Juan Antonio Bardem. See Roos, Fred. "Venice Film Festival, 1956" in ''The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television'', Vol. 11, No. 3. (Spring, 1957), p. 249.