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The Volpi Cups are awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival

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....
. 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 cup is named in honor of Count Volpi di Misurata

Giuseppe Volpi

Giuseppe Volpi was an Italian businessman and Fascist politician. From 1921 to 1925 he acted as governor of Tripolitania. After this he served as finance minister and then President of Confindustria....
, the founder of the Venice Film Festival.

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The Volpi Cups are awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

Giuseppe Volpi

Best Actor

1935 Pierre Blanchard in Crime Et Châtiment
1936 Paul Muni
Paul Muni

Paul Muni was an United States Academy Awards-winning and Tony Award-winning Stage and film actor.BiographyEarly life and career...
in The Story of Louis Pasteur
The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 in film biographical film. It starred Paul Muni as the Louis Pasteur. It was written by Toni Pollastre and Sheridan Gibney, and Edward Chodorov , and directed by William Dieterle....
1937 Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings was a Switzerland-born German people actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor....
in Der Herrscher
1938 Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard (actor)

Leslie Howard was an English people Academy Award-nominated Stage and film actor, director, and Theatrical producer. He is best known by international audiences as Ashley Wilkes in the film Gone with the Wind ....
in Pygmalion
Pygmalion (1938 film)

Pygmalion is a 1938 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion , and adapted by him for the screen. The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay and three more nominations....
1941 Ermete Zacconi
Ermete Zacconi

Ermete Zacconi was an Italy stage actor and film actor. Representative of Naturalism and verism in acting.Lead actor in dramas of William Shakespeare, Carlo Goldoni, Alfred de Musset, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg....
in Don Buonaparte
1942 Fosco Giachetti
Fosco Giachetti

Fosco Giachetti was an Italian actor.He was the brother of the actor Gianfranco Giachetti.Protagonist of Lo squadrone bianco , directed by Augusto Genina....
in Bengasi
1947 Pierre Fresnay
Pierre Fresnay

Pierre Fresnay was a French stage and film actor.Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach in Paris, France, France he was encouraged by his uncle, the actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film....
in Monsieur Vincent
Monsieur Vincent

Monsieur Vincent is a 1947 French film about Vincent de Paul, the seventeenth century priest and charity worker. It depicts his struggle to help the poor in the face of obstacles such as the Black Death....
1948 Ernst Deutsch
Ernst Deutsch

Ernst Deutsch aka Ernest Dorian was an Austrian actor....
in Der Prozess
1949 Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cheshire Cotten was an American actor of stage and film. He was perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles, which included Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons and Journey into Fear , which Cotten wrote, and for his work with Alfred Hitchcock in Shadow of a Doubt....
in Portrait of Jennie
Portrait of Jennie

Portrait of Jennie is a 1948 in film fantasy film based on the novella by Robert Nathan....
1950 Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe

Sam Jaffe may refer to:*Sam Jaffe , American actor*Sam Jaffe , Hollywood talent agent, studio executive and film producer...
in The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle is a film noir directed by John Huston. The caper film, is based on the novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett and stars an ensemble cast including Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, and Marilyn Monroe....
1951 Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin

Jean Gabin was a major France actor and war hero....
in La Nuit est Mon Royaume
1952 Fredric March in Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman is a 1949 Play by American playwright Arthur Miller and is a classic of American theater. The play ran for 742 performances, directed by Elia Kazan with Lee J....
1953 Henri Vilbert in Le Bon Dieu Sans Confession
1954 Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin

Jean Gabin was a major France actor and war hero....
in L'air De Paris in Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Touchez pas au grisbi

Touchez pas au grisbi is a 1954 in film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Dora Doll, Delia Scala, Ren? Dary, and Miss America 1946, Marilyn Buferd ....
1955 Curd Jürgens
Curd Jürgens

Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz J?rgens was a Germany-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens....
in Les Héros Sont Fatigués
1955 Kenneth More
Kenneth More

Kenneth Gilbert More Order of the British Empire was an England actor....
in The Deep Blue Sea
The Deep Blue Sea

The Deep Blue Sea is a play by Terence Rattigan. Premiering in London on 6 March 1952, it was praised by critics and audiences who saw it as evidence that Rattigan's view of life was growing deeper and more complex....
1956 Bourvil
Bourvil

Andr? Bourvil, a France actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Fun?s in La Grande Vadrouille , was born Andr? Robert Raimbourg ....
in La Traversée de Paris
1957 Anthony Franciosa
Anthony Franciosa

Anthony Franciosa, born Anthony George Papaleo, Jr., , was an United States actor, usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career....
in A Hatful of Rain
A Hatful of Rain

A Hatful of Rain is a 1957 in film dramatic film. It stars Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray , Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan and Henry Silva.The movie was adapted by Michael V....
1958 Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an Academy Award for Best Actor winning English actor....
in The Horse's Mouth
The Horse's Mouth (film)

The Horse's Mouth is a 1958 in film film, directed by Ronald Neame. Alec Guinness wrote the screenplay from the 1944 novel The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary, and also played the lead role of Gulley Jimson, a London artist....
1959 James Stewart
James Stewart (actor)

James Maitland Stewart , popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an United States film and stage actor best known for his self-effacing persona....
in Anatomy of a Murder
Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder is an Cinema of the United States trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger and written by Wendell Mayes based on the best-selling novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D....
1960 John Mills
John Mills

Sir John Mills Order of the British Empire was an England actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades....
in Tunes of Glory
Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory is a 1960 in film film directed by Ronald Neame, based on the novel by James Kennaway, who also wrote the screenplay, centering on events in a Scotland Highland military barracks in the period following World War II....
1961 Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro Mifune

Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese people actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in films such as Rashomon , Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo ....
in Yojimbo
Yojimbo

Yojimbo is a Japanese word for bodyguard. The term may also refer to:*Yojimbo , a 1961 jidaigeki film by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune...
1962 Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster

Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster was an United States film actor and star, noted for his athletic physique, distinct smile and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image....
in Birdman of Alcatraz
Birdman of Alcatraz (film)

Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictionalized version of the life of Robert Stroud, a federal prison inmate known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" because of his life with birds....
1963 Albert Finney
Albert Finney

Albert Finney, Jr. is a British people actor. Hailed as a "second Laurence Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950s, Finney rose to film star fame in the early 1960s....
in Tom Jones (film)
Tom Jones (film)

Tom Jones is a 1963 in film British comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero....
1964 Tom Courtenay
Tom Courtenay

Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , Billy Liar and Doctor Zhivago ....
in King and Country
1965 Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro Mifune

Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese people actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in films such as Rashomon , Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo ....
in Akahige
1966 Jacques Perrin
Jacques Perrin

Jacques Perrin is a France actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's....
in Un Uomo a Metà and La busca
1967 Ljubisa Samardzic in Jutro
Jutro

Jutro was a Sarajevo-based Rock music Musical ensemble most notable as the immediate predecessor to Bijelo dugme. It existed from late 1971 to the very end of 1973 when it transformed into probably the most popular rock band to come out of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ? Bijelo dugme....
1968 John Marley
John Marley

John Marley was an United States actor who was known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in Love Story and as Jack Woltz— the movie mogul who finds his horse's head in his bed—in The Godfather ....
in Faces (film)
Faces (film)

Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin, who both received Academy Award nominations for this film....
1983 Mitchell Litschenstein, Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine

Matthew Avery Modine is an United States actor, perhaps most famous for playing Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick 1987 in film film Full Metal Jacket and high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest....
, Michael Wright, David Alan Grier
David Alan Grier

David Alan Grier , also known as "D.A.G." , is an American actor and comedian known for his work on the sketch comedy television show In Living Color....
, Guy Boyd
Guy Boyd

Guy Boyd may refer to:*Guy Boyd *Guy Boyd ...
& George Dzundza
George Dzundza

George Dzundza is an American actor. He played Max Greevey in the first season of the TV crime drama Law & Order....
in Streamers
Streamers

Streamers is a play by David Rabe The production transferred to Broadway theatre, opening on April 21 1976 at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, where it ran for 478 performances....
1984 Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah

Naseeruddin Shah aka Nasiruddin Shah is an highly acclaimed Indian Cinema of India actor born in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh....
in Paar
Paar

The Paar is a river in Germany and a right tributary of the Danube. For several tens of kilometers it flows parallel to the Lech River, at only a few km distance....
1985 Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu

name = G?rard DepardieuNational Order of Quebec| image = G?rard Depardieu 2008.jpg| imagesize =| caption = G?rard Depardieu, 2008...
in Police
Police

Police are agents or agencies, usually of the executive , empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force....
1986 Carlo Delle Piane
Carlo Delle Piane

Carlo Delle Piane , is a Italy film actor. He has appeared in 104 films since 1948 in film.He was born in Rome, Italy....
in Regalo di Natale
1987 Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant

Hugh John Mungo Grant is a British people actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary C?sar. His movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide....
& James Wilby
James Wilby

James Jonathon Wilby is an English people actor for film, TV and stage ....
in Maurice
Maurice (film)

Maurice is a 1987 in film film based on the Maurice by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his school days, through university, and beyond....
1988 Don Ameche
Don Ameche

Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning United Statesn actor....
& Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

Joseph Anthony ?Joe? Mantegna, Jr. is an United States Tony Award-winning actor, film producer, writer and television director. He is best known for his roles in box-office hits such as Three Amigos , The Godfather Part III , Baby's Day Out , Forget Paris , Up Close & Personal , and The Simpsons Movie ....
in Things Change
1989 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...
& Massimo Troisi
Massimo Troisi

Massimo Troisi was an Italian Academy Award-nominated actor, film director and poet. He is best known for his role as Mario Ruoppolo in the 1994 in film film Il Postino....
in Che Ora È?
1990 Oleg Borisov
Oleg Borisov

Oleg Ivanovich Borisov ; November 8, 1929 – April 28, 1994) was a well-known Russian film and theatre actor....
in Edinstvenijat Suidetel
1991 River Phoenix
River Phoenix

River Jude Phoenix was an United States film actor. He was listed on John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 38 as one of twelve "promising new actors of 1986", and was hailed as highly talented by such critics as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel....
in My Own Private Idaho
My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 in film independent film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1....
1992 Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon

'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
in Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross is a 1982 play written by David Mamet. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts?from lies and flattery to bribery, threats, intimidation, and burglary?to sell undesirable real estate to unwilling prosp...
1993 Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Fabrizio Bentivoglio is an Italy cinema and theatre actor and a screenwriter.Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan . After only one season in the juvenile team of Internazionale Milano F.C.,...
in Un' Anima Divisa in Due
1994 Xia Yu
Xia Yu

Xia Yu is a People's Republic of China actor....
in Yangguang Canlan de Rizi
1995 Götz George
Götz George

G?tz George is a Germany actor, son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg commissar Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series Tatort....
in Der Totmacher
Deathmaker

Deathmaker is a 1995 in film Cinema of Germany film directed by Romuald Karmakar and starring G?tz George, J?rgen Hentsch and Pierre Franckh....
1996 Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson

William John "Liam" Neeson Order of the British Empire is an Irish people actor. He is well known for his roles as Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and as Qui-Gon Jinn in George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and as the Voice acting of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series....
in Michael Collins
Michael Collins (film)

Michael Collins is a List of Irish films#1990s List of historical drama films biographical film about Michael Collins , the Ireland patriotism and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War....
1997 Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes

Wesley Trent Snipes is an United States actor, film producer and martial artist. He has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, and dramatic feature films but is best known for his role as Blade in the Blade ....
in One Night Stand
One Night Stand (1997 film)

One Night Stand is a 1997 in film drama film by British director Mike Figgis. The first draft of the screenplay was written by Joe Eszterhas, who had his name removed from the project following Figgis' rewrite....
1998 Sean Penn
Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn is an United States film actor. He is also a filmmaker and political activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mystic River and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and Academy Awa...
in Hurlyburly
Hurlyburly

Hurlyburly is a dark comedy Play by David Rabe.More than three hours long, it focuses on the intersecting lives of several low- to mid-level Hollywood types in the 1980s....
1999 Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent

James "Jim" Broadbent is an England Academy Award-winning, theatre, film and television actor....
in Topsy-Turvy
Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy is a musical film drama film about the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado in 1884 and 1885. It was written and directed by Mike Leigh and stars Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan and Jim Broadbent as W....
2000 Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem

Javier ?ngel Encinas Bardem is an Academy Award-winning Spain actor who has starred in over two dozen films in Spain. He had garnered critical acclaim as an actor for films such as Jam?n, jam?n, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro....
in 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....
2001 Luigi Lo Cascio
Luigi Lo Cascio

Luigi Lo Cascio is an Italy actor born 20 October 1967 in Palermo.He won David di Donatello for Best actor for his starring role in I cento passi....
in Luce Dei Miei Occhi
2002 Stefano Accorsi
Stefano Accorsi

Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi is an Italy actor....
in Un Viaggio Chiamato Amore
2003 Sean Penn
Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn is an United States film actor. He is also a filmmaker and political activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mystic River and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and Academy Awa...
in 21 Grams
21 Grams

21 Grams is a 2003 in film film drama directed by Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro....
2004 Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem

Javier ?ngel Encinas Bardem is an Academy Award-winning Spain actor who has starred in over two dozen films in Spain. He had garnered critical acclaim as an actor for films such as Jam?n, jam?n, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro....
in Mar Adentro
Mar adentro

The Sea Inside is a 2004 in film film by the Spain/Chilean film director Alejandro Amen?bar. It is based on the real-life story of Ram?n Sampedro , a Spain ship mechanic left quadriplegic after a diving accident....
2005 David Strathairn
David Strathairn

David Russell Strathairn is an Academy Awards-nominated United States film, television, and stage actor....
in Good Night, and Good Luck
2006 Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck is an United Statesn actor, film director and screenwriter. He became known in the mid 1990s, after his involvement in the film Mallrats , and has since become an Academy Award winner for his screenplay in Good Will Hunting in 1997....
in Hollywoodland
Hollywoodland

Hollywoodland is a 2006 biopic/docudrama directed by TV alum Allen Coulter about a down-on-his-luck detective, Louis Simo , investigating the suspicious death of actor George Reeves , the star of television's Adventures of Superman ....
2007 Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has been cited as one of the world's most attractive men and his off-screen life is widely reported....
in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a 2007 Western drama film adapted from Ron Hansen 's 1983 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford of the same name....
2008 Silvio Orlando
Silvio Orlando

Silvio Orlando is an Italy actor.Orland was born in Naples. He worked with numerous Italian directors such as Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Carlo Mazzacurati, Gabriele Salvatores and others....
in Giovanna's Father

Best Actress

1935 Paula Wessely
Paula Wessely

Paula Wessely was an Austrian actor.Die Wessely, as she was affectionately called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actress....
in Episode
Episode

An episode is a part of a dramatic work such as a Serial television program or Radio programming program. An episode is a part of a sequence of a body of work, akin to a chapter of a book....
1936 Annabella in Veille D'armes
1937 Bette Davis
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
in Kid Galahad
Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad is a 1962 in film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a boxing.The movie was filmed on location in Idyllwild, California and is noted for having a strong supporting cast....
& Marked Woman
Marked Woman

Marked Woman is a crime melodrama film released by Warner Brothers in 1937 in film.It was film director by Lloyd Bacon, and starred Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane , Isabel Jewell, Mayo Methot, Eduardo Ciannelli, Rosalind Marquis, Jane Bryan and Allen Jenkins....
1938 Norma Shearer
Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
in Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette (1938 film)

Marie Antoinette is a 1938 in film film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.It was film director by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut and Gladys George....
1941 Luise Ullrich in Annelie
1942 Kristina Soderbaum in Die Goldene Stadt
1947 Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani was an Academy Award-winning Italy stage and film actress. Magnani won the Oscar for her lusty portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo ....
in L'onorevole Angelina
L'onorevole Angelina

L'onorevole Angelina is a 1947 in film film directed by Luigi Zampa. The star of the film is Anna Magnani, who won Volpi Cup prize for "Best Actress" at the Venice Film Festival....
1948 Jean Simmons
Jean Simmons

Jean Merilyn Simmons, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Awards-nominated English actress. Simmons was named an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2003....
in 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....
1949 Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland

Olivia Mary de Havilland is a two-time Academy Awards-winning actor. She is the older sister of actress Joan Fontaine, also an Academy Award winner....
in The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit

The Snake Pit is a 1948 film which tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there. It stars Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens , Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi and Lee Patrick....
1950 Eleanor Parker
Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Jean Parker is an American film and television actress....
in Caged
Caged (1950 film)

Caged is a 1950 film which tells the story of a teenage newlywed, who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery. Her experiences while incarcerated, along with the killing of her husband, change her from a very frightened young girl into a hardened convict....
1951 Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier , was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she had also played on stage in London's West End Theatre....
in 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...
1953 Lilli Palmer
Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer, born Lillie Marie Peiser, was a Golden Globe nominated Germany actress....
in The Four Poster
1956 Maria Schell
Maria Schell

Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was an Austrian actress.The daughter of a Switzerland author and an Austrian actress, she was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell, and lesser-known actors Carl Schell, and Immy Schell....
in Gervaise
Gervaise

Gervaise is a 1956 France film directed by Ren? Cl?ment based on the novel L'Assommoir by ?mile Zola. It depicts a woman in the nineteenth century trying to cope with the pressure of dealing with her alcoholic husband....
1957 Dzidra Ritenberga in Malva
Malva

Malva is a genus of about 25?30 species of herbaceous annual plant, biennial plant, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae , one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow....
1958 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....
in The Black Orchid
1959 Madeleine Robinson in À Double Tour
1960 Shirley Maclaine
Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
in The Apartment
The Apartment

The Apartment is a Cinema of the United States comedy film-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray....
1961 Suzanne Flon
Suzanne Flon

Suzanne Flon was a France film actress and comedienne. Her father was a railway worker and her mother crafted jewelry.Prior to becoming an actress, Flon worked as an English language translator at the Paris department store Printemps and then as personal secretary to ?dith Piaf....
in Tu ne Tueras Point
1962 Emmanuelle Riva
Emmanuelle Riva

Emmanuelle Riva is a French actress.Riva started her acting career on the Paris stage after having worked as a seamstress. Her best known role was as Elle in Hiroshima, Mon Amour ....
in Thérèse Desqueyroux
Thérèse Desqueyroux

Th?r?se Desqueyroux is a 1927 novel by Fran?ois Mauriac.In 1962 in film it was made into a France movie directed by Georges Franju, and scripted by him with Fran?ois and Claude Mauriac....
1963 Delphine Seyrig
Delphine Seyrig

Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig was a stage and film actress and a film director....
in Muriel
Muriel

Muriel may refer to:*Muriel Media*Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour , 1963 French film*Muriel's Wedding, 1994 Australian filmPlaces...
1964 Harriet Andersson
Harriet Andersson

Harriet Andersson is a Sweden actress, best known for being one of Ingmar Bergman's regular actresses.She often played impulsive working class characters and quickly established a reputation on screen for her youthful, unpretentious, full-lipped sensuality....
in Att Alska
1965 Annie Girardot
Annie Girardot

Annie Girardot is a France actor. She began performing in 1954, making her film debut in Treize ? table.She won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the C?sar Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Fran?oise Gailland....
in Trois chambres à Manhattan
1966 Natalya Arinbasarova in Pervyj Uchitel
1967 Shirley Knight
Shirley Knight

Shirley Enola Knight is an award-winning United States theatre, film, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth....
in Dutchman
Dutchman

Dutchman can refer to:* A Dutch people.** An Afrikaner from South Africa.* A Dutchman is a strip of material used to cover the join between two flats...
1968 Laura Betti
Laura Betti

Laura Betti was an Italy actor.Born Laura Trombetti in Bologna, this blonde and flamboyant actress started her career as jazz singer. Betti made her film debut in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita....
in Teorema
Teorema

Teorema may refer to:* Teorema * teorema International Journal of Philosophy...
1983 Darling Legitimus in Rue Cases Negres
1984 Pascale Ogier
Pascale Ogier

Pascale Ogier was a France actor.Born Pascale Marguerite Nicolas in Paris, she was the daughter of a musician father and French actress Bulle Ogier....
in Les Nuits de la pleine lune
Les Nuits de la pleine lune

Full Moon in Paris is a 1984 France film directed by ?ric Rohmer. The film stars Pascale Ogier, Tch?ky Karyo and Fabrice Luchini. The soundtrack is by Elli et Jacno....
1986 Valeria Golino
Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino is an Italian people-Greeks film and television actress. She is perhaps best known to U.S. audiences for the Academy Award-winning film Rain Man, and has won the David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, and Coppa Volpi awards....
in Storia d'amore
1987 Kang Soo-yeon
Kang Soo-yeon

Kang Soo-yeon is a South Korean actress. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and was one of the best known and internationally acclaimed stars from South Korea from the mid-eighties to the end of the nineties....
in Contract Mother
The Surrogate Woman

The Surrogate Woman aka Surrogate Womb aka The Surrogate Mother is a 1987 in film film directed by Im Kwon-taek, dealing with a love affair during the Yi Dynasty....
1988 Shirley Maclaine
Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
in Madame Sousatzka
Madame Sousatzka

Madame Sousatzka is a film directed by John Schlesinger, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the Madame Sousatzka by Bernice Rubens....
1988 Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Anne Huppert is a Cesar Award-winning France actor....
in Une Affaire De Femmes
Story of Women

Story of Women is a 1988 France drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. Based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, and the book by Francis Szpiner, it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival....
1989 Peggy Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft

Dame Peggy Ashcroft Order of the British Empire was an English actress....
& Geraldine James
Geraldine James

Geraldine James Order of the British Empire is an award-winning England actor. Theatre director Peter Hall has said that Geraldine James ranks among the great English classical actresses....
in She's Been Away
She's Been Away

She's Been Away is a 1989 United Kingdom television play by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by Peter Hall . In her final appearance it starred Dame Peggy Ashcroft, who won two awards at the Venice International Film Festival for her performance , as did Geraldine James....
1990 Gloria Münchmeyer in La Luna en el Espejo
1991 Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton

Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is an Academy Award, BAFTA, and Coppa Volpi award-winning United Kingdom actor known for both art film and Mainstream#In film....
in Edward II
Edward II (film)

Edward II is a 1991 in film film by Derek Jarman based on the play Edward II by Christopher Marlowe.The plot revolves around Edward II of England's infatuation with Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall , which proves to be the downfall of both of them, thanks to the machinations of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March ....
1992 Gong Li
Gong Li

Gong Li is a Chinese film actress. She first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States....
in 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....
1993 Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is an Academy Award-winning France film Actor. Binoche is well known worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being , The English Patient and Chocolat as well as internationally successful arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue and Cach? ....
in Trois Coleurs: 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....
1994 Maria de Medeiros
Maria de Medeiros

Maria de Medeiros, Order of St. James of the Sword is a Portugal actress and director who has been involved in both European and American film productions....
in Três Irmãos
1995 Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire

Sandrine Bonnaire is an internationally renowned France actress.Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children....
& Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Anne Huppert is a Cesar Award-winning France actor....
in La Cérémonie
La Cérémonie

La C?r?monie is a 1995 in film film by Claude Chabrol. It was adapted from the novel A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell....
1996 Victoire Thivisol
Victoire Thivisol

Victoire Thivisol is a French people film actress. She first gained acclaim for her role as a child coping with her mother's death in the 1996 in film film, Ponette and became the youngest actress to win the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival....
in Ponette
Ponette

Ponette is a 1996 Cinema of France film directed by Jacques Doillon. The film centers on four-year-old Ponette , who is coming to terms with the death of her mother....
1997 Robin Tunney
Robin Tunney

Robin Tunney is an United States actress. She is best known for her lead role in The Craft ....
in Niagara, Niagara
Niagara, Niagara

Niagara, Niagara is a 1997 in film film directed by Bob Gosse. *Tagline: Love can't be controlled....
1998 Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve is a two-time C?sar Award-winning, BAFTA Award-nominated and Academy Award-nominated French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of beautiful ice maidens for various directors, including Luis Bu?uel and Roman Polanski....
in Place Vendôme
Place Vendôme

Place Vend?me is a square in the Ier arrondissement of Paris and is located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the ?glise de la Madeleine....
1999 Nathalie Baye
Nathalie Baye

Nathalie Baye is a four-time C?sar award-winning French Actor. Also she has been nominated a further five times....
in Une Liaison Pornographique
Une liaison pornographique

Une liaison pornographique is a 1999 film by Fr?d?ric Fonteyne.External links...
2000 Rose Byrne
Rose Byrne

Rose Judith Esther Byrne is a Golden Globe-nominated Australia actress....
in The Goddess of 1967
The Goddess of 1967

The Goddess of 1967 is a 2000 Australian film directed by Macau-born Australian Clara Law, who wrote the script with her husband Eddie Ling-Ching Fong....
2001 Sandra Ceccarelli in Luce Dei Miei Occhi
2002 Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning and four time Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
in Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven

Far from Heaven is a 2002 film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Ryan Ward, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson....
2003 Katja Riemann
Katja Riemann

Katja Hannchen Leni Riemann is a German actress....
in Rosenstrasse
Rosenstrasse (film)

Rosenstrasse is a 2003 in film film by Margarethe von Trotta, dealing with the Rosenstrasse protest. Rated PG-13 by the MPAA for "mature thematic material, some violence and brief drug content."...
2004 Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton

Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, Order of the British Empire, is an Academy Award-nominated England actor best known for her performances in the United Kingdom comedy television series Up the Garden Path and the films Harry Potter and Vera Drake....
in 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....
2005 Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Giovanna Mezzogiorno

File:Festival de Cannes 24 mai 2008.jpgGiovanna Mezzogiorno is an Italy theater and film actress.Mezzogiorno was born in Rome, the daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi....
in The Beast in the Heart
The Beast in the Heart

The Beast in the Heart , is a 2005 in film film Film director by Cristina Comencini, based on the novel written by herself.It was nominated for Golden Lion prize at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival....
2006 Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Mirren, Order of the British Empire is a multi-award winnning English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career....
in The Queen
The Queen (film)

The Queen is a 2006 in film United Kingdom drama film Film director by Stephen Frears, screenwriter by Peter Morgan and stars Helen Mirren in the title role, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom....
2007 Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett

Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
in 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....
2008 Dominique Blanc
Dominique Blanc

Dominique Blanc is a French actress.One of the most critical acclaimed French actresses, she has already won four C?sar Awards and was nominated four more times....
in L’Autre

Best Supporting Actor

1993 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...
in Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil
1994 Roberto Citran in Il toro
1995 Ian Hart
Ian Hart

Ian Hart is an England actor....
in Nothing Personal
1996 Chris Penn
Chris Penn

Christopher Shannon "Chris" Penn was an United States film and television actor....
in The Funeral

Best Supporting Actress

1993 Anna Bonaiuto in Dove siete? Io sono qui
1994 Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
in Little Odessa
Little Odessa

Little Odessa is an USA crime film released in 1994 in film by James Gray , featuring Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly and Vanessa Redgrave....
1995 Isabella Ferrari in Romanzo di un giovane povero

Best Cast

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....
: Andie MacDowell
Andie MacDowell

Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell is an American model and actress. She is the winner of two Golden Globe Awards....
, Bruce Davison
Bruce Davison

Bruce Davison is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor and filmmaker....
, Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon

'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
, Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning and four time Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
, Lane Cassidy, Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine

Matthew Avery Modine is an United States actor, perhaps most famous for playing Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick 1987 in film film Full Metal Jacket and high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest....
, Anne Archer
Anne Archer

Anne Archer is an Academy Award-nominated American actress....
, Fred Ward
Fred Ward

Fred Ward is an United States actor. He began his career in 1979 alongside Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz....
, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh is a Golden Globe Awards-nominated and two-time New York Film Critics Circle Awards-winning United States actress.Her work has drawn high critical praise....
, Chris Penn
Chris Penn

Christopher Shannon "Chris" Penn was an United States film and television actor....
, Josette Maccario, Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor

Lili Anne Taylor is an United States theater, film and television actor....
, Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr.

Robert John Downey Jr., is an United States Golden Globe-winning and two-time Academy Award-nominated actor and musician. Downey made his screen debut at the age of five when he started to appear in Robert Downey, Sr.'s films....
, Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Stowe

Madeleine Stowe is an United States actor....
, Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins

Timothy Francis Robbins is an Academy Award winning United States actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer, Activism and musician. He is the longtime domestic partner of actress Susan Sarandon....
, Cassie Friel, Dustin Friel, Austin Friel, Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin

Mary Jean ?Lily? Tomlin is an United States actor, comedian, writer and Theatrical producer. During her 40-year career she has also been nominated for an Academy Award, and has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award....
, Tom Waits
Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
, Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand

Frances Louise McDormand is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States film, stage , and television actress....
, Peter Gallagher
Peter Gallagher

Peter Killian Gallagher is a Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild-winning United States actor, musician and writer....
, Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett

Lyle Pearce Lovett is an United States singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the #10 chart hit on the U.S....
, Buck Henry
Buck Henry

Henry Zuckerman, better known as Buck Henry , is an United States actor, writer, film director, and television director....
& Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis

Huey Lewis is an United States musician, songwriter and occasional actor.He sings lead vocals and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs....

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