Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)

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• 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire
  A Streetcar Named Desire (film)
  
  A Streetcar Named Desire is a film adaptation of the A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. It was directed by Elia Kazan, who had also directed the original stage production, and stars Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden; all but Leigh were chosen from the Broadway theatre cast of the play, while Leigh had...
   by Elia Kazan
  Elia Kazan
  
  Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
  
• 1952 Mandy
  Mandy (film)
  
  Mandy was a 1952 in film Ealing Studios film, based on the book The Day Is Ours by Hilda Lewis, with screenplay by Nigel Balchin and Jack Whittingham, and direction by Alexander Mackendrick and Fred Sears....
   by Alexander Mackendrick
  Alexander Mackendrick
  
  Alexander Mackendrick was a Scottish-American film film director and teacher....
  
• No awards 1953-7
• 1958 The Lovers by Louis Malle
  Louis Malle
  
  Louis Malle was a French film director, working in both French and English....
   and La sfida
  La sfida
  
  La sfida is a 1958 Italian film by Francesco Rosi. It stars Jos? Su?rez as a gang leader who challenges a local Camorra boss for supremacy....
  by Francesco Rosi
  Francesco Rosi
  
  Francesco Rosi is an Italy film director. He is the father of the actress Carolina Rosi....
  
• 1959 The Magician
  The Magician (1958 film)
  
  The Magician is a 1958 in film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Its original Swedish language title is Ansiktet, which means "face", and it was released theatrically as The Face in the UK, although video releases have used the U.S....
  by 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....
  
• 1960 Rocco and His Brothers by 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 ....
  
• 1961 Peace to Him Who Enters
  Peace to Him Who Enters
  
  Peace to Him Who Enters is a 1961 in film Soviet film written and directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov. Set in World War II, it tells the story of three Soviet soldiers who try to rescue a trapped pregnant German woman by taking her on a dangerous drive to a hospital....
  by Aleksandr Alov
  Aleksandr Alov
  
  Aleksandr Alov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1983 .Alesandr Alov graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1951, where he studied under Igor Savchenko....
   and Vladimir Naumov
• 1962 Vivre sa vie by 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....
  
• 1963 The Fire Within
  The Fire Within
  
  The Fire Within is a 1963 in film France film directed by Louis Malle. It is based on the novel of the same name by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle....
  by Louis Malle
  Louis Malle
  
  Louis Malle was a French film director, working in both French and English....
   and Introduction to Life
  Introduction to Life
  
  Introduction to Life is a 1962 Soviet film about World War II seen through the eyes of a young boy from Leningrad. It won a Special Jury Prize a Venice Film Festival....
  by Igor Talankin
  Igor Talankin
  
  Igor Talankin is a Russian people film director and screenwriter. His film Tchaikovsky was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....
  
• 1964 The Gospel According to St. Matthew
  The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)
  
  The Gospel According to St. Matthew is a 1964 in film Cinema of Italy film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.The dialogue is primarily taken directly from the Gospel, as Pasolini felt that "images could never reach the poetic heights of the text." He reportedly chose the Gospel of Matthew over the others because he had decided that "Gosp...
  by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  
  Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italy poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, Painting and political figure....
   and Hamlet
  Hamlet (1964 film)
  
  Hamlet is a film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev, and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet....
  by Grigori Kozintsev
  Grigori Kozintsev
  
  Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev was a Soviet Russian Theatre director and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts....
  
• 1965 Simon of the Desert by 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....
  , I Am Twenty
  I am Twenty
  
  I am Twenty is a film directed by Marlen Khutsiev. It is Khutsiev's most famous film and considered a landmark of 1960s Soviet cinema.The film was originally entitled Zastava Iliycha , but it was heavily censored upon completion, trimmed to half its original length, retitled and withheld from release until 1965....
  by Marlen Khutsiev
  Marlen Khutsiev
  
  Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev is a Georgia -born Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain....
   and Modiga Mindre Män
  Modiga Mindre Män
  
  Modiga Mindre M?n is a 1965 Sweden children's film written and directed by Leif Krantz. It won a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival....
  by Leif Krantz
• 1966 Chappaqua
  Chappaqua (film)
  
  Chappaqua is a 1966 cult film written, directed by and starring Conrad Rooks. It is based on Rooks' experiences with drug addiction. It includes cameo appearances by a host of famous names of the 1960s: author William S....
  by Conrad Rooks and Yesterday Girl
  Yesterday Girl
  
  Yesterday Girl is a 1966 German film by director Alexander Kluge. Its original German title is Abschied von gestern , which means "parting from yesterday"....
  by Alexander Kluge
  Alexander Kluge
  
  Alexander Kluge is a noted film director and author....
  
• 1967 China is Near
  China is Near
  
  China is Near is a 1967 Italian film written and directed by Marco Bellocchio. It is a satirical movie about the struggle for political power....
  by Marco Bellocchio
  Marco Bellocchio
  
  Marco Bellocchio is an Italy film director, screenwriter and actor.Born in Bobbio, Bellocchio began studying philosophy in Milan but then decided to enter film school, making his first film, Fists in the Pocket , in 1965 in film....
   and La Chinoise
  La Chinoise
  
  La Chinoise is a 1967 French political cinema directed by Jean-Luc Godard about young revolutionaries in Paris....
  by 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....
  
• 1968 Our Lady of the Turks by Carmelo Bene and Le Socrate by Robert Lapoujade
• 1969-80 - No awards
• 1981 Sogni d'oro by Nanni Moretti
  Nanni Moretti
  
  Giovanni Moretti is an Italy film director, film producer and actor....
   and Eles não usam black tie by Leon Hirszman
• 1982 Imperativ by 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....
  
• 1983 Biguefarre by Georges Rouquier
  Georges Rouquier
  
  Georges Rouquier was a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 12 films between 1942 in film and 1982 in film. He also directed ten films between 1942 and 1983 in film....
  
• 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
  Francesco Maselli
  
  Francesco Maselli or Citto Maselli is an award winning Italy film director and screenwriter.He has directed 38 films since 1949....
  
• 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
  Otar Iosseliani
  
  Otar Iosseliani is a Georgia -France film maker. Due to censorship, his films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union, inducing Iosseliani to migrate to France in 1982....
  
• 1990 An Angel at My Table
  An Angel at My Table
  
  An Angel at My Table is a 1990 New Zealand/Australia/UK film film director by Jane Campion....
  by Jane Campion
  Jane Campion
  
  Jane Campion is an Academy Awards-winning film maker and screenplay writer. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia ? where she now lives ? and the U.S....
  
• 1991 A Divina Comédia by 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....
  
• 1992 Morte di un matematico napoletano by Mario Martone
• 1993 Bad Boy Bubby
  Bad Boy Bubby
  
  Bad Boy Bubby is a black comedy and drama film written and directed by Rolf de Heer. It stars Nicholas Hope and Carmel Johnson.Bubby became notorious for pushing the boundaries of good taste with its strong scenes featuring violence, incest and blasphemy amongst other taboo topics....
  by Rolf De Heer
  Rolf de Heer
  
  Rolf de Heer is an Australian Film director, writer and producer. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in The Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old....
  
• 1994 Natural Born Killers
  Natural Born Killers
  
  Natural Born Killers is a 1994 in film satire crime film directed by Oliver Stone about two mass murderers and the Mass media coverage given to them....
  by Oliver Stone
  Oliver Stone
  
  William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
  
• 1995 A Comédia de Deus
  A Comédia de Deus
  
  God's Comedy is a 1995 Portugal film by Jo?o C?sar Monteiro. It's the second part in a trilogy, preceded by and followed by or, .God is symbolized through the character Jo?o de Deus , played by writer/director...
  by João César Monteiro
  João César Monteiro
  
  Jo?o C?sar Monteiro was a Portugal film director, actor, writer and film critic . He was born in Figueira da Foz in February 2, 1939 and died of cancer in Lisbon on February 3, 2003....
   and L'uomo delle Stelle by Giuseppe Tornatore
  Giuseppe Tornatore
  
  Giuseppe Tornatore is an Italy film director....
  
• 1996 Brigands by Otar Iosseliani
  Otar Iosseliani
  
  Otar Iosseliani is a Georgia -France film maker. Due to censorship, his films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union, inducing Iosseliani to migrate to France in 1982....
  
• 1997 Ovosodo by Paolo Virzì
  Paolo Virzì
  
  Paolo Virz? is an Italian people film screenwriter and Film director.Virz? was born in Livorno. With his first film, La bella vita, he won Ciak d'Oro, Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello for Best New Director....
  
• 1998 Terminus Parabys by Lucian Pintilie
  Lucian Pintilie
  
  Lucian Pintilie is a Romanian film director and screenwriter....
  
• 1999 The Wind Will Carry Us
  The Wind Will Carry Us
  
  The Wind Will Carry Us is a 1999 Iranian film by Abbas Kiarostami.The title is a reference to a poem written by the famous modern Iranian woman poet Forough Farrokhzad.In 1999, the movie was nominated for Golden Lion of Venice Film Festival....
  by Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami
  
  Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including short films and Documentary film....
  
• 2000 Before Night Falls
  Before Night Falls
  
  Before Night Falls is the 1992 autobiography of gay Cubans writer Reinaldo Arenas, describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape to the United States....
  by Julian Schnabel
  Julian Schnabel
  
  Julian Schnabel is an United States artist and filmmaker. He has been acclaimed at Cannes and has won a Golden Globe, as well as BAFTA, C?sar Award, Golden Palm and two nominations for the Golden Lion and an Academy Award nomination....
  
• 2001 Dog Days
  Dog Days (2001 film)
  
  Dog Days , is a 2001 Austrian feature film directed by Ulrich Seidl. It is characterized by a disturbing naturalistic style which is a trademark of Seidl's directing....
  by Ulrich Seidl
  Ulrich Seidl
  
  Ulrich Seidl is an Austria film director, writer and producer....
  
• 2002 Dom Durakov - La maison des fous by Andrej Koncalovskij
• 2003 The Kite
  The Kite
  
  The Kite is a 2003 Lebanon film by the director Randa Chahal Sabag. It tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl who is forced to marry her cousin over the border of the pre-occupied territories in southern Lebanon ....
  by Randa Chahal Sabbag
• 2004 The Sea Inside by Alejandro Amenábar
  Alejandro Amenábar
  
  Alejandro Fernando Amen?bar Cantos is a Spain-Chile film film director. Amen?bar was born in Santiago de Chile, Chile in 1972, to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth....
  
• 2005 Mary by Abel Ferrara
  Abel Ferrara
  
  'Abel Ferrara' is an United States film screenwriter and film director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer , Ms....
  
• 2006 Daratt
  Daratt
  
  Daratt is a 2006 film by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun. The film was one of seven films from non-Western cultures commissioned by Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope Festival to commemorate the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
  by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
  Mahamat Saleh Haroun
  
  Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is a film director from Chad who has lived in France since 1982. He made his first feature film, Bye Bye Africa, in 1999....
  
• 2007 I'm Not There
  I'm Not There
  
  I'm Not There is a 2007 biography film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by pop icon United States of America singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's life and public persona; they are: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw....
  by Todd Haynes
  Todd Haynes
  
  Todd Haynes is an award-winning United States film director best known for the films Poison , Academy Award-nominated Far From Heaven, and I'm Not There....