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The Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Biennale

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The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it, as is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years....
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The Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Biennale

Venice Biennale

Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido di Venezia, Venice, Italy....
. 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. 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)

Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido di Venezia, Venice, Italy....
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
Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos is a 1968 in film German film directed by Alexander Kluge. The film is made in a collage style, featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose owner, Leni , must decide whether her dream of a new kind of circus is too optimistic....
; 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."

Grand International Prize of Venice

Year	Title	Director
1947	Siréna Sirena Sirena: Poetry, Art and Criticism is an international and multilingual academic journal of poetry and art, founded in 2004 by Dr. Jorge R. Sagastume, from Dickinson College....	Karel Stekly Karel Steklý Karel Stekl? was a Czech people film director of international renown. He is most famous for his film Sir?na for which he won the Golden Lion....
1948	Hamlet Hamlet (1948 film) *Hamlet* is a British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films....	Laurence Olivier Laurence Olivier Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....

Golden Lion

Of note is that Golden Lion awards tend to be presented to European men. Since 1949 only a few women have ever won the Golden Lion for directing, Indian-born Mira Nair

Mira Nair

Mira Nair is an Indian-American film director and Film producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University....
, German Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director and a member of the New German Cinema movement.The illegitimate child of Elisabeth von Trotta and painter Alfred Roloff, she relocated to Paris in the 1960s, where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and co-directing short films....
and Belgium's Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda

Agn?s Varda is a French people film director. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary ? with a distinct experimental style....
, who both won more than two decades ago. Although numerous Americans have won honorary awards at the festival, Americans have only won the Golden Lion three times, with awards for John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
and Robert Altman

Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
(both times the awards were shared with other winners who tied), and Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer....
(the first sole American to win the award)

Year	Title	Director	Country of origin
1949	Manon Manon (film) *Manon* is a 1949 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It is an adaptation of the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Antoine Fran?ois Pr?vost....	Henri-Georges Clouzot Henri-Georges Clouzot Henri-Georges Clouzot was a France film director, screenwriter and film producer....
1950	Justice Is Done (Justice est faite) Justice Is Done *Justice Is Done* is a 1950 France drama film directed by Andr? Cayatte. It tackles the subject of euthanasia by depicting a court case in which a woman is tried for killing her terminally ill husband at his request....	André Cayatte André Cayatte Andr? Cayatte was a French New Wave filmmaker and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility, themes which Cayatte persisted in affirming regardless of changing contemporary attitudes....
1951	Rashomon Rashomon (film) is a 1950 in film Cinema of Japan directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori and Minoru Chiaki....	Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa was a prominent Japanese people filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and film editing. His first credited film as director, , was released in 1943, his last as director, , in 1993....
1952	Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) Forbidden Games *Forbidden Games* , is a 1952 French language film directed by Ren? Cl?ment and based on Fran?ois Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits ....	René Clément René Clément Ren? Cl?ment was a film director and screenwriter.Cl?ment studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest that led to the pursuit of a career in filmmaking....
1953	No award
1954	Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet (1954 film) *Romeo and Juliet* is a 1954 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It was directed by Renato Castellani and stars Laurence Harvey as Romeo Montague, Susan Shentall as Juliet Capulet, Flora Robson as the Nurse , Mervyn Johns as Friar Laurence, Bill Travers as Benvolio, Sebastian Cabot as Lord Capulet, Ubaldo Zollo as Me...	Renato Castellani Renato Castellani Renato Castellani was an Italian film director and screenwriter....
1955	The Word (Ordet) Ordet *Ordet* is a 1955 Denmark film, film director by Carl Theodor Dreyer. It is based on a 1932 play by Kaj Munk, a Danish pastor who was killed by the Nazism....	Carl Theodor Dreyer Carl Theodor Dreyer Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Denmark born film director of Sweden descent. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema....
1956	No award
1957	The Unvanquished (Aparajito) Aparajito *Aparajito* is an award-winning 1956 Bengali film, directed by Satyajit Ray. It is the second part of Ray's The Apu Trilogy, and is adapted from the last one-fifth of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's novel Pather Panchali and the first one-third of its sequel Aparajita....	Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali people filmmaker. Ray is regarded as one of the greatest Auteur theory of 20th century Film. Born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali people family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College, Calcutta and at the Visva-Bharati University....
1958	Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho) Rickshaw Man *Rickshaw Man* is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. Its original Japanese title is . It tells the story of a Matsugoro, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman....	Hiroshi Inagaki Hiroshi Inagaki Hiroshi Inagaki was a Japanese filmmaker most known for the Academy Awards-winning Samurai Trilogy, which he directed. Before becoming a director and screenwriter, Inagaki was a child actor....
1959	General della Rovere (Il generale della Rovere) General della Rovere *General della Rovere* is a 1959 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini. It tells the story of a petty thief who is hired by the Nazis to impersonate an Italian resistance leader, General della Rovere, and inflitrate a group of resistance prisoners in a Milan prison.... The Great War (La grande guerra) The Great War (1959 film) *The Great War* is a 1959 Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of two young Italian men and their experiences in World War I....	Roberto Rosselini Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli is an Italy director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana ....
1960	The Crossing of the Rhine (Le passage du Rhin) Le Passage du Rhin *Le Passage du Rhin* is a 1960 French film directed by Andr? Cayatte. It was released in the USA as *Tomorrow is My Turn*. It tells the story of two French soldiers in the aftermath of the German occupation of France during World War II who become forced labourers on a German farm under the Service du travail obligatoire, but become...	André Cayatte André Cayatte Andr? Cayatte was a French New Wave filmmaker and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility, themes which Cayatte persisted in affirming regardless of changing contemporary attitudes....
1961	Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) Last Year at Marienbad *L'ann?e derni?re ? Marienbad* is a 1961 France film directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pito?ff. The screenplay is by Alain Robbe-Grillet....	Alain Resnais Alain Resnais 'Alain Resnais' is a French film director whose early works are often grouped within the French New Wave or nouvelle vague film movement. Although he has had a long and fruitful career, Resnais is best known for three early works that deal with themes of memory and trauma: Night and Fog , Hiroshima Mon Amour , and Last Year at M...
1962	Family Diary (Cronaca familiare) Family Diary *Family Diary* is a 1962 Italian film directed by Valerio Zurlini and based on the novel by Vasco Pratolini. It tells the story of two brothers who are brought up apart from each other at their mother's death, then brought together by difficult family circumstances.... (tie) Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) (tie)	Valerio Zurlini Valerio Zurlini Valerio Zurlini was an Italy film director, stage director and screenwriter.During his law studies in Rome Zurlini started working in the theatre.... Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russians filmmaker, writer and opera director.Tarkovksy is listed among the 100 most critically acclaimed film directors; director Ingmar Bergman was quoted as saying "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life...
1963	Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città) Hands Over the City *Hands Over the City* is a 1963 in film drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. It is a post World War II story of political corruption in Italy....	Francesco Rosi Francesco Rosi Francesco Rosi is an Italy film director. He is the father of the actress Carolina Rosi....
1964	Red Desert (Il deserto rosso)	Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian orders of merit was an Italian people modernist film director....
1965	Sandra of a Thousand Delights (Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa)	Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti Luchino House of Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre director and film director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard and Death in Venice ....
1966	The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri) The Battle of Algiers (film) *The Battle of Algiers* is a 1966 in film black-and-white film by Gillo Pontecorvo based on events during the 1954-1962 Algerian War against French rule in Algeria....	Gillo Pontecorvo Gillo Pontecorvo Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian Cinema of Italy, best known for The Battle of Algiers although he directed several movies before its release in 1966, such as the drama Kap? , which takes place in a World War II concentration camp....
1967	Beauty of the Day (Belle de jour) Belle de jour *Belle de jour* is a 1967 in film Cinema of France film starring Catherine Deneuve as a woman who decides to spend her days as a prostitute while her husband is at work....	Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Luis Bu?uel Portol?s was a Spanish people-born filmmaker who worked mainly in France and Mexico, but also in his native Spain and in the United States....
1968	Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos) Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos *Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos* is a 1968 in film German film directed by Alexander Kluge. The film is made in a collage style, featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose owner, Leni , must decide whether her dream of a new kind of circus is too optimistic....	Alexander Kluge Alexander Kluge Alexander Kluge is a noted film director and author....
1969-1979	No award
1980	Atlantic City Atlantic City (film) *Atlantic City* is a film directed by Louis Malle. Filmed in late 1979, it was released in France and Germany in 1980 and in the United States in 1981.... (tie) Gloria Gloria (film) *Gloria* is a 1980 film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a gangster's girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy who is being hunted by the mob for information he may or may not have.... (tie)	Louis Malle Louis Malle Louis Malle was a French film director, working in both French and English.... John Cassavetes John Cassavetes John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....	/
1981	Marianne and Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit) Marianne and Juliane *Marianne and Juliane* is a 1981 in film film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Its original German language title is *Die bleierne Zeit*, which can be translated as "the heavy times"....	Margarethe von Trotta Margarethe von Trotta Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director and a member of the New German Cinema movement.The illegitimate child of Elisabeth von Trotta and painter Alfred Roloff, she relocated to Paris in the 1960s, where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and co-directing short films....
1982	The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge) The State of Things (film) *The State of Things* is a 1982 road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It tells the story of a film director travelling from Portugal to Los Angeles in search of his missing producer....	Wim Wenders Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm Wenders is a Germany film director, playwright, author, photographer and film producer....
1983	First Name: Carmen (Prénom Carmen)	Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".Godard was born to French people-Swiss parents in Paris....
1984	The Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) The Year of the Quiet Sun *The Year of the Quiet Sun* is a 1984 in film Poland film written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It tells the story of a romance between a Polish refugee and an United States soldier....	Krzysztof Zanussi Krzysztof Zanussi Krzysztof Zanussi, is a Poland film producer and film director.He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop....
1985	Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) Vagabond (film) *Vagabond* is a film directed by Agn?s Varda, released in 1985, featuring Sandrine Bonnaire. The original French language title is *Sans toit ni loi*, which means "without roof or law"....	Agnès Varda Agnès Varda Agn?s Varda is a French people film director. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary ? with a distinct experimental style....
1986	The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)	Éric Rohmer Éric Rohmer ?ric Rohmer is a French film director and screenwriter. He is regarded as a key figure in the post-war French New Wave and is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cin?ma....
1987	Au revoir, les enfants Au revoir, les enfants *Au revoir, les enfants* is a 1987 in film film written, produced and directed by Louis Malle. The screenplay was published by Gallimard in the same year....	Louis Malle Louis Malle Louis Malle was a French film director, working in both French and English....
1988	The Legend of the Holy Drinker (La leggenda del santo bevitore) La leggenda del santo bevitore *La leggenda del santo bevitore* is a 1988 Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi. It tells the story of a drunken homeless man in Paris who is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to; the film depicts the man's constrant frustrations as he attempts to do so....	Ermanno Olmi Ermanno Olmi Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italy film director....
1989	A City of Sadness (Bei qing cheng shi) A City of Sadness *A City of Sadness* is a 1989 in film Cinema of Taiwan historical drama film by Hou Hsiao-hsien. It tells the story of a family embroiled in the tragic "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s, during which thousands of Taiwanese were rounded up, sh...	Hou Hsiao-Hsien Hou Hsiao-Hsien Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's Cinema of Taiwan#New Wave Cinema, 1982 ? 1990....
1990	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film) *Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead* is a 1990 film written and directed by Tom Stoppard based on his Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. It was filmed in Bre?ice, Slovenia....	Tom Stoppard Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
1991	Urga Urga (film) *Urga* is a 1991 film by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov. It is released in North America as *Close to Eden*. It depicts the friendship between a Russian truck driver and a Mongolian people shepherd in Inner Mongolia....	Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is an Academy Award winning Russian filmmaker and actor....
1992	The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiu Ju da guan si) The Story of Qiu Ju *The Story of Qiu Ju* is a 1992 in film China comedy-drama film. The film was directed by Zhang Yimou and, as in many of his films, stars Gong Li in the title role....	Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou is an internationally acclaimed China filmmaker and former cinematographer, and one of the best known of the Fifth Generation of Chinese film directors....
1993	Short Cuts Short Cuts *Short Cuts* is a 1993 in film drama film directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver.... (tie) Three Colours: Blue (Trois couleurs: Bleu) Three Colors: Blue *Three Colours: Blue* is a 1993 French film written, produced and directed by the acclaimed Poland director Krzysztof Kieslowski. Blue is the first in the Three Colors trilogy, themed on the Libert?, ?galit?, Fraternit?; it is followed by Three Colors: White and Three Colors: Red.... (tie)	Robert Altman Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective.... Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof Kieslowski , was an influential Academy Awards-nominated Poland film film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles The Decalogue and Three Colors....	/
1994	Vive L'Amour (Ai qing wan sui) Vive L'Amour *Vive L'Amour* is a 1994 in film Cinema of Taiwan film by Tsai Ming-liang. It is a slow paced film with sparse dialogue about urban alienation, centering on three people who unknowingly share an apartment in Taipei.... (tie) Before the Rain (tie)	Tsai Ming-liang Tsai Ming-liang Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Cinema of Taiwan, along with earlier contemporaries as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang.... Milco Mancevski Milco Mancevski Milco Mancevski , usually credited as Milcho Manchevski, is an internationally acclaimed Macedonians film director and screenwriter. Mancevski has directed over 60 film projects, most of them associated with the short film aesthetics....	Republic of Macedonia Republic of Macedonia The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
1995	Cyclo (Xich lo) Cyclo (film) *Cyclo* is a 1995 film by Vietnamese film director Tran Anh Hung . It stars Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Tran Nu Yen-Khe. Le Van Loc plays a young Cycle rickshaw driver who is forced into working for a gang after his cycle is stolen....	Anh Hung Tran
1996	Michael Collins	Neil Jordan Neil Jordan Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
1997	Fireworks (Hana-bi) Hana-bi , released in the US as "*Fireworks*", is a Japanese films of 1997 Cinema of Japan written, directed and edited by, and starring Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano....	Takeshi Kitano Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, Painting, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic film work....
1998	The Way We Laughed (Così ridevano) The Way We Laughed *The Way We Laughed* is a 1998 in film Italian film directed by Gianni Amelio. It tells the story of two Sicily brothers, Giovanni and Pietro, who emigrate to the city of Turin....	Gianni Amelio Gianni Amelio Gianni Amelio is an Italy film Film director....
1999	Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao) Not One Less *Not One Less* is a 1999 in film film drama by China film director Zhang Yimou. Zhang himself refers to it as "one of my best films".It centers on a 13 year-old substitute school teacher, Wei Minzhi , in the Chinese countryside who is placed in charge of the school after the previous teacher leaves temporarily for a month....	Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou is an internationally acclaimed China filmmaker and former cinematographer, and one of the best known of the Fifth Generation of Chinese film directors....
2000	The Circle (Dayereh) The Circle (film) *The Circle* is a 2000 in film drama film by Iranian independent filmmaker Jafar Panahi that criticizes the treatment of women in Iran. The film has won several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2000, but it is banned in Iran....	Jafar Panahi Jafar Panahi Jafar Panahi is an internationally acclaimed Iranian people filmmaker and is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave movement....
2001	Monsoon Wedding Monsoon Wedding *Monsoon Wedding* is a 2001 in film film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan, which depicts romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi culture wedding in Delhi....	Mira Nair Mira Nair Mira Nair is an Indian-American film director and Film producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University....
2002	The Magdalene Sisters The Magdalene Sisters *The Magdalene Sisters* is a 2002 in film film written and directed by Peter Mullan about teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums, otherwise known as the 'Magdalen Laundries': homes for women who were labeled as "fallen" by their families or society ....	Peter Mullan Peter Mullan Peter Mullan is a Scotland actor and film maker who has been appearing in films since 1990....
2003	The Return (Vozvrashcheniye) Vozvrashcheniye *The Return* is a 2003 in film Russian film released internationally in 2004. It tells the story of two teenage Russian boys whose father returns home suddenly after a twelve year absence....	Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev is a Russians film director and actor. He is mostly known for his 2003 film The Return , which won him a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival....
2004	Vera Drake Vera Drake *Vera Drake* is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom Film director by Mike Leigh. It tells the story of a working class woman in London in 1950, whose values conflict with the social mores of the period....	Mike Leigh Mike Leigh Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
2005	Brokeback Mountain Brokeback Mountain *Brokeback Mountain* is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States romance film-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the Western United States from 1963 to 1983....	Ang Lee Ang Lee Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....
2006	Still Life (Sanxia haoren)	Jia Zhangke Jia Zhangke Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Cinema of China#The Sixth Generation and beyond, 1990s - present" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....
2007	Lust, Caution (Se, jie)	Ang Lee Ang Lee Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....	//
2008	The Wrestler	Darren Aronofsky Darren Aronofsky Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer....

Golden Lion – Honorary Award

Year	Winner(s)
1970	Orson Welles Orson Welles George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
1971	Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition.... , Marcel Carné Marcel Carné Marcel Carn? was a French film director.Born in Paris, France, he began his career in silent film as a trainee with director Jacques Feyder. By age 25, Carn? had already directed his first film, one that marked the beginning of a successful collaboration with surrealist poet and screenwriter Jacques Pr?vert.... , Charles Aznavour Charles Aznavour Charles Aznavour, Order of Canada is an Armenian-France singer, songwriter, actor and public activist. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world.... and John Ford John Ford John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
1972	Charles Chaplin, Anatoly Golovnya and Billy Wilder Billy Wilder Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
1982	Alessandro Blasetti Alessandro Blasetti Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism.Blasetti was born in Rome, where he also died. He was president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967.... , Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Luis Bu?uel Portol?s was a Spanish people-born filmmaker who worked mainly in France and Mexico, but also in his native Spain and in the United States.... , Frank Capra Frank Capra 'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr.... , George Cukor George Cukor 'George Cukor' was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copp... , Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".Godard was born to French people-Swiss parents in Paris.... , Sergei Yutkevich Sergei Yutkevich Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was an award-winning Soviet film director.... , Alexander Kluge Alexander Kluge Alexander Kluge is a noted film director and author.... , Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa was a prominent Japanese people filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and film editing. His first credited film as director, , was released in 1943, his last as director, , in 1993.... , Michael Powell Michael Powell (director) Michael Latham Powell was a British people film director, renowned for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger which produced a series of classic British films under the aegis of "Powell and Pressburger."... , Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali people filmmaker. Ray is regarded as one of the greatest Auteur theory of 20th century Film. Born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali people family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College, Calcutta and at the Visva-Bharati University.... , King Vidor King Vidor King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900.... and Cesare Zavattini Cesare Zavattini Cesare Zavattini was an Italian people screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealism movement in Italian cinema....
1983	Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian orders of merit was an Italian people modernist film director....
1985	Manoel de Oliveira Manoel de Oliveira Manoel C?ndido Pinto de Oliveira, Order of St. James of the Sword is a Portugal film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He is currently the oldest active film director in the world.... , John Huston John Huston John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King .... and Federico Fellini Federico Fellini Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
1986	Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
1987	Luigi Comencini Luigi Comencini Luigi Comencini was an Italy film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre.... and Joseph L. Mankiewicz Joseph L. Mankiewicz Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
1988	Joris Ivens Joris Ivens Joris Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and devout communist....
1989	Robert Bresson Robert Bresson Robert Bresson was a French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic style....
1990	Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italians actor.During his career, Mastroianni had won or been nominated multiple times for awards such as Volpi Cup, Best Actor Award , BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, David di Donatello for Best Actor, Nastro d'Argento, Sant Jordi Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion... and Miklos Jancso Miklós Jancsó Mikl?s Jancs? is a Hungarian people film director and screenwriter.Jancs? achieved international prominence in the 1960s. His most famous works include Szeg?nyleg?nyek , The Red and the White and Red Psalm ....
1991	Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli is an Italy director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana .... and Gian Maria Volonté Gian Maria Volontè Gian Maria Volont? was an Italy actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More....
1992	Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau is a BAFTA Awards and C?sar Awards-winning French people actress, screenwriter and Film director.... , Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager.... and Paolo Villaggio Paolo Villaggio Paolo Villaggio is an Italian actor, writer, director and comedian, especially famous for his grotesque irony and satire....
1993	Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion.... , Robert De Niro Robert De Niro Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time.... , Roman Polanski Roman Polanski Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown .... and Claudia Cardinale Claudia Cardinale Claudia Cardinale is an Tunisia actor born in Tunis, Tunisia. Some of the most notable films she has appeared in include 8? and Once Upon a Time in the West ....
1994	Al Pacino Al Pacino Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an United States film and theatre actor and Film director, widely considered to be one of the most notable and influential actors of his time.... , Suso Cecchi d'Amico Suso Cecchi d'Amico Suso Cecchi d'Amico is an Academy Award nominee Italian screenwriter.She worked with the best Italian directors: Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Zeffirelli.... and Ken Loach Ken Loach Kenneth Loach , commonly known as Ken Loach, is an English film director and television director director. He is known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness and Labor rights ....
1995	Woody Allen Woody Allen Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors.... , Monica Vitti Monica Vitti Monica Vitti is an Italy actress noted for her frosty expressiveness and starring roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni.... , Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol... , Alberto Sordi Alberto Sordi Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Italian orders of merit was an Italy actor, likely the most popular of the 20th Century. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films.... , Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone, Italian orders of merit#Order of Merit of the Republic is an acclaimed List of Italian composers Academy Award-winning composer.... , Giuseppe de Santis Giuseppe de Santis Giuseppe De Santis was an Italian film director. One of the most idealistic neorealism filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, he wrote and directed films punctuated by ardent cries for social reform.... , Goffredo Lombardo and Alain Resnais Alain Resnais 'Alain Resnais' is a French film director whose early works are often grouped within the French New Wave or nouvelle vague film movement. Although he has had a long and fruitful career, Resnais is best known for three early works that deal with themes of memory and trauma: Night and Fog , Hiroshima Mon Amour , and Last Year at M...
1996	Robert Altman Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective.... , Vittorio Gassman Vittorio Gassman 'Vittorio Gassman' , popularly known as 'Il Mattatore', was an Italy theatre and film actor and film director. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors and is commonly recalled as an extremely professional, versatile, magnetic interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissement... , Dustin Hoffman Dustin Hoffman Dustin Lee Hoffman is a two-time Academy Award-, six-time Golden Globe-, three-time BAFTA- and Emmy Award-winning United States actor.... and Michele Morgan Michèle Morgan Mich?le Morgan is a French actress who had been active in film largely between 1937 and 1968....
1997	Gerard Depardieu Gérard Depardieu name = G?rard DepardieuNational Order of Quebec\| image = G?rard Depardieu 2008.jpg\| imagesize =\| caption = G?rard Depardieu, 2008... , Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films.... and Alida Valli Alida Valli Alida Valli , sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in over 100 films, including Carol Reed The Third Man and Luchino Visconti Senso ....
1998	Warren Beatty Warren Beatty Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director.... , Sophia Loren Sophia Loren Sophia Loren is an Academy Award-winning Italian people film actress. She is widely considered to be the most popular Italian actress of her time and is also famous for being a major international sex symbol.... and Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Poland film director. Recipient of an honorary Academy Awards, he is one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School....
1999	Jerry Lewis Jerry Lewis Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
2000	Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.... and Éric Rohmer Éric Rohmer ?ric Rohmer is a French film director and screenwriter. He is regarded as a key figure in the post-war French New Wave and is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cin?ma....
2002	Dino Risi Dino Risi Dino Risi was an Italy film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of Commedia all'italiana....
2003	Dino De Laurentiis Dino De Laurentiis Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis , is an Academy Award-winning Italy movie producer.... and Omar Sharif Omar Sharif Omar Sharif is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films. He has acted in List of Egyptian films, List of French films, and English language feature films....
2004	Stanley Donen Stanley Donen Stanley Donen is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as "the King of the Hollywood musicals". His most famous work is Singin' in the Rain , which he co-directed with Gene Kelly.... and Manoel de Oliveira Manoel de Oliveira Manoel C?ndido Pinto de Oliveira, Order of St. James of the Sword is a Portugal film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He is currently the oldest active film director in the world....
2005	Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki is a prominent filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He is also the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company.... and Stefania Sandrelli Stefania Sandrelli Stefania Sandrelli is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the commedia all'Italiana, starting from 1960s.She was born in Viareggio, Tuscany....
2006	David Lynch David Lynch David Keith Lynch is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, Painting, cartoonist, composer, video artist and performance artist....
2007	Tim Burton Tim Burton Tim Burton is an award-winning Film Director and Film Producer. Burton was born in Burbank, California, the first of two sons to Bill Burton and Jean Erickson....
2008	Ermanno Olmi Ermanno Olmi Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italy film director....

Golden Lion

Grand International Prize of Venice

Golden Lion

Golden Lion – Honorary Award

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