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The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival
Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality....
 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, Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. 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
Venice Biennale

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....
, a major biennial exhibition and festival for contemporary art
Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II....
.

The festival's principal awards are the Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice 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....
), which is awarded to the best film screened at the festival, and the Coppa Volpi (Volpi Cup
Volpi Cup

The Volpi Cups are awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival. Awards for best actor and best actress have been given since 1935. In the mid-1990s awards were also given to supporting actors and actresses, and in 1993 an award was given to an entire cast....
), which is awarded to the best actor and actress.






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The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival
Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality....
 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, Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. 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
Venice Biennale

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....
, a major biennial exhibition and festival for contemporary art
Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II....
.

The festival's principal awards are the Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice 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....
), which is awarded to the best film screened at the festival, and the Coppa Volpi (Volpi Cup
Volpi Cup

The Volpi Cups are awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival. Awards for best actor and best actress have been given since 1935. In the mid-1990s awards were also given to supporting actors and actresses, and in 1993 an award was given to an entire cast....
), which is awarded to the best actor and actress. In 2002, the San Marco Award has been introduced, for the best film of the Controcorrente (Against the stream) section.

Taiwanese American
Taiwanese American

A Taiwanese American is an American having Taiwanese ancestry. Americans born in Taiwan whose ancestors immigrated to Taiwan in the 1940s are sometimes called Taiwanese American as well....
 director Ang Lee
Ang Lee

Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....
 has been chosen as president of the jury for the 66th edition of the festival, se to take place from September 2 to September 12, 2009.

Golden Lion winners

See a list of winners at Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice 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....


The Golden Lion is the festival's highest award for best film.

Silver Lion

See list of winners at Silver Lion
Silver Lion

The Leone d?Argento refers to a number of awards presented at the Venice Film Festival. The Silver Lion is awarded irregularly and have gone through several changes of purpose....


Silver Lions are an irregular award presented in some years as a "runners-up" prize to the Golden Lion. In addition, other Silver Lions are sometimes awarded for debut films, short films and direction.

Special Jury Prize

See list of winners at Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)
Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)

The Special Jury Prize is an award given at the Venice Film Festival. It is awarded to one or two films per year and is considered less prestigious than the main award, the Golden Lion....


A Special Jury Prize is awarded to one or two films in most years.

Volpi Cups


For a list of winners, see Volpi Cup
Volpi Cup

The Volpi Cups are awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival. Awards for best actor and best actress have been given since 1935. In the mid-1990s awards were also given to supporting actors and actresses, and in 1993 an award was given to an entire cast....
.


The Volpi Cups are awarded to actors. Awards for best actor and best actress have been given since 1935. In the mid-1990s awards were also given to supporting actors and actresses, and in 1993 an award was given to the entire cast of 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....
.

Golden Osellas

The Golden Osellas are awarded to directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, composers, and for outstanding technical contributions.

Past awards


Mussolini Cups

The Mussolini Cups were the top awards from 1934 to 1942. Named after Italy's then ruler, Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, Order of the Bath Sovereign Military Order of Malta Order of the Tower and Sword was an Italy politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
, they were abandoned upon his ousting in 1943, and eventually returned as the Grand International Prize of Venice in 1947 (see Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice 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....
).

Mussolini Cup for best Italian Film
  • 1934 Teresa confalonieri by Guido Brignone
    Guido Brignone

    Guido Brignone was an Italian film director. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone.Brignone was born in Milan, Italy. He was the first Italian Director to win the Venice Film Festival or Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, the oldest film festival in the world, with Best Italian Film, Teresa Confalonieri ....
  • 1935 Casta Diva by Carmine Gallone
    Carmine Gallone

    Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italy film director, screenwriter and film producer.Considered one of Italian cinemas top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty year career between 1913 and 1963....
  • 1936 Lo squadrone bianco
    Lo squadrone bianco

    Lo squadrone bianco is a 1936 in film Italy film directed by Augusto Genina. The plot features a cavalry lieutenant, unlucky in love, who redeems himself by battling the "rebels" of Tripolitania ....
     by Augusto Genina
  • 1937 Scipione l'Africano by Carmine Gallone
    Carmine Gallone

    Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italy film director, screenwriter and film producer.Considered one of Italian cinemas top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty year career between 1913 and 1963....
  • 1938 Luciano serra pilota by Goffredo Alessandrini
    Goffredo Alessandrini

    Goffredo Alessandrini was an Italy script writer and film director. He also did act, edit and produce some films....
  • 1939 Abuna Messias by Goffredo Alessandrini
    Goffredo Alessandrini

    Goffredo Alessandrini was an Italy script writer and film director. He also did act, edit and produce some films....
  • 1940 L'assedio dell'Alcazar by Augusto Genina
  • 1941 La corona di ferro by 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....
  • 1942 Bengasi by Augusto Genina


Mussolini Cup for best foreign film
  • 1934 Man of Aran
    Man of Aran

    Man of Aran is a documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, a docufiction on life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters who live in premodern conditions and their hardships, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil, and hunting for hu...
     by Robert J. Flaherty
    Robert J. Flaherty

    Robert Joseph Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film in 1922....
     (Great Britain)
  • 1935 Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina (1935 film)

    Anna Karenina is a critically acclaimed 1935 in film drama film, directed by Clarence Brown. It is based on the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy....
     by Clarence Brown
    Clarence Brown

    Clarence Brown was an United States film director. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven....
     (United States)
  • 1936 Der Kaiser von Kalifornien
    The Kaiser of California

    The Kaiser of California is a 1936 in film film that has the unique distinction of being the only western film made in Nazi Germany. Almost all of the exterior scenes were even shot on location in California....
     by Luis Trenker
    Luis Trenker

    Luis Trenker was an Austrian-Italian film director, architect, and actor....
     (Germany)
  • 1937 Un carnet de bal by Julien Duvivier
    Julien Duvivier

    Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930 - 1960. He created a world of dark images born of a strange imagination....
     (France)
  • 1938 Olympia 1.Teil – Fest der Völker
    Olympia (1938 film)

    'Olympia' is a 1938 in film film by Leni Riefenstahl documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The movie was produced in two parts: Olympia 1....
     by Leni Riefenstahl
    Leni Riefenstahl

    Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a Germany film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker....
     (Germany)
  • 1940 Der Postmeister by Gustav Ucicky
    Gustav Ucicky

    Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer from Vienna.He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s....
     (Germany)
  • 1941 Ohm Krüger by Hans Steinhoff (Germany)
  • 1942 Der große König by Veit Harlan
    Veit Harlan

    Veit Harlan was a Germans film director and actor....
     (Germany)


Best director awards

  • 1935 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....
     for The Wedding Night
    The Wedding Night

    The Wedding Night is a 1935 motion picture directed by King Vidor starring Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, and Ralph Bellamy....
  • 1936 Jacques Feyder
    Jacques Feyder

    Jacques Feyder was a Belgium screenwriter and international film director who was one of the founders of poetic realism in Cinema of France. He adopted French nationality in 1928....
     for La Kermesse Héroique
  • 1937 Robert J. Flaherty
    Robert J. Flaherty

    Robert Joseph Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film in 1922....
     and Zoltan Korda
    Zoltán Korda

    Zolt?n Korda was a Hungary-born motion picture screenwriter, film director and film producer.Born Zolt?n Kellner of Jewish heritage in Pusztat?rp?szt?, T?rkeve in Hungary and the was the middle brother of filmmakers Alexander Korda and Vincent Korda....
     for Elephant Boy
    Elephant Boy

    Elephant Boy may refer to:*Elephant Boy , a 1937 film based on a story from Kipling's Jungle Book* "Elephant Boy", the nickname of Wack_Pack#Elephant_Boy, of The Howard Stern Shows The Wack Pack...
  • 1938 Carl Froelich
    Carl Froelich

    Carl Froelich was a Germany film pioneer and film director....
     for Heimat
    Heimat

    Heimat is a German word that has no simple English translation. It is often expressed with terms such as home or homeland, but these English counterparts fail to encapsulate centuries of German consciousness and the thousands of connections this quintessential aspect of German identity carries with it....


Best actor awards

  • 1932 Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a horror film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. and starring Fredric March. The film is an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a crude homicide maniac....
  • 1934 Wallace Beery
    Wallace Beery

    Wallace Beery was an United States Academy Award-winning actor, arguably best known for his portrayal of Long John Silver in Treasure Island , who appeared in 200 movies over a 36-year span....
     in Viva Villa!
    Viva Villa!

    Viva Villa! is a 1934 in film film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O.B....


Best actress awards

  • 1932 Helen Hayes
    Helen Hayes

    Helen Hayes was an United States actress, whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the nine people List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
     in The Sin of Madelon Claudet
    The Sin of Madelon Claudet

    The Sin of Madelon Claudet is a 1931 in film United States drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn and starring Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht was adapted from the Play The Lullaby by Edward Knoblock....
  • 1934 Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn

    Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
     in Little Women
    Little Women

    Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . Written and published in two parts in 1868 in literature and 1869 in literature, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters....
  • 1938 Norma Shearer
    Norma Shearer

    Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
     in Marie Antoinette
    Marie Antoinette

    For the 2006 film about this person that stars Kirsten Dunst, see Marie-Antoinette .Marie Antoinette was born an Archduchess of Austria and later became Queen of France and of Navarre....


Special Award best cast

  • 1954 Executive Suite
    Executive Suite

    Executive Suite is a 1954 in film MGM drama film depicting the transfer of power in a corporation in trouble. The film stars William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, and Walter Pidgeon....
    : William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck
    Barbara Stanwyck

    Barbara Stanwyck was an United States actor, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B....
    , Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Pidgeon

    Walter Davis Pidgeon was an American actor of Canada birth, who lived most of his life in the United States, and eventually became a U.S. citizen....
     & Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters

    Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....


Glory to the Filmmaker! award

  • 2007 Kitano Takeshi in Glory to the Filmmaker!
    Glory to the Filmmaker!

    is a Japanese films of 2007 Cinema of Japan written, directed, edited by the film's lead star Takeshi Kitano. It is a sequel to Takeshis....


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