Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival Awards) - Winners

Venice Film Festival Awards

The Golden Lion is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes. In 1970, a second Golden Lion was introduced; this is an honorary award for people who have made an important contribution to cinema. The prize was introduced in 1949 as the Golden Lion of St. Mark. Previously, the equivalent prize was the Gran Premio Internazionale di Venezia, awarded in 1947 and 1948. Before that, from 1934 until 1942, the highest awards were the Coppa Mussolini 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; 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."

Date Established : 1949

Check all the winners of Golden Lion presented under Venice Film Festival Awards since 1949 .

Kim Ki-duk

Honored for : Pieta

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kim Ki-duk	Pieta
Harmony Korine	Spring Breakers

Harmony Korine

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kim Ki-duk	Pieta
Harmony Korine	Spring Breakers

Sofia Coppola

Honored for : Somewhere

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	The Last Circus
Athina Rachel Tsangari	Attenberg
Kelly Reichardt	Meek's Cutoff

Samuel Maoz

Honored for : Lebanon

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Jessica Hausner	Lourdes
Claire Denis	White Material
Yonfan	Prince of Tears

Darren Aronofsky

Honored for : The Wrestler

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Darren Aronofsky	The Wrestler
Hayao Miyazaki	Ponyo

Ang Lee

Honored for : Lust, Caution

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Brian De Palma	Redacted

Jia Zhangke

Honored for : Still Life

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Stephen Frears	The Queen

Ang Lee

Honored for : Brokeback Mountain

Mike Leigh

Honored for : Vera Drake

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kim Ki-duk	3-Iron
Jia Zhangke	The World
Alejandro Amenábar	The Sea Inside

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Honored for : The Return

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Margarethe von Trotta	Rosenstrasse
Andrey Zvyagintsev	The Return
Michael Winterbottom	Code 46

Peter Mullan

Honored for : The Magdalene Sisters

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Peter Mullan	The Magdalene Sisters

Mira Nair

Honored for : Monsoon Wedding

Jafar Panahi

Honored for : The Circle

Zhang Yimou

Honored for : Not One Less

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Frédéric Fonteyne	An Affair of Love
Mike Leigh	Topsy Turvy

Gianni Amelio

Honored for : The Way We Laughed

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Tom Tykwer	Run Lola Run

Takeshi Kitano

Honored for : Fireworks

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Alan Rickman	The Winter Guest

Gérard Depardieu

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Alan Rickman	The Winter Guest

Neil Jordan

Honored for : Michael Collins

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Ken Loach	Carla's Song

Ennio Morricone

Tran Anh Hung

Honored for : Cyclo

Mil?o Man?evski

Honored for : Before the Rain

(Tie with Tsai Ming-liang for Vive L'Amour)

Tsai Ming-liang

Honored for : Vive L'Amour

(Tie with Mil?o Man?evski for Before the Rain)

Krzysztof Kie?lowski

Honored for : Three Colors: Blue

(Tie with Robert Altman for Short Cuts)

Robert Altman

Honored for : Short Cuts

(Tie with Krzysztof Kie?lowski for Three Colours: Blue)

Robert De Niro

Zhang Yimou

Honored for : The Story of Qiu Ju

Francis Ford Coppola

Nikita Mikhalkov

Honored for : Close to Eden

Nominations 1991 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Gus Van Sant	My Own Private Idaho

Tom Stoppard

Honored for : Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Honored for : A City of Sadness

Ermanno Olmi

Honored for : The Legend of the Holy Drinker

Louis Malle

Honored for : Au revoir, les enfants

Éric Rohmer

Honored for : The Green Ray

Agnès Varda

Honored for : Vagabond

Krzysztof Zanussi

Honored for : The Year of the Quiet Sun

Jean-Luc Godard

Honored for : First Name: Carmen

Wim Wenders

Honored for : The State of Things

Satyajit Ray

Margarethe von Trotta

Honored for : Marianne and Juliane

Louis Malle

Honored for : Atlantic City

(Tie with John Cassavetes for Gloria)

John Cassavetes

Honored for : Gloria

(Tie with Louis Malle for Atlantic City)

Alexander Kluge

Honored for : The Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed

Luis Buñuel

Honored for : Beauty of the Day

Gillo Pontecorvo

Honored for : The Battle of Algiers

Luchino Visconti

Honored for : Sandra of a Thousand Delights

Michelangelo Antonioni

Honored for : Red Desert

Francesco Rosi

Honored for : Hands over the City

Valerio Zurlini

Honored for : Family Diary

(Tie with Andrei Tarkovsky for My Name is Ivan)

Nominations 1962 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Roman Polanski	Knife in the Water

Andrei Tarkovsky

Honored for : Ivan's Childhood

(Tie with Valerio Zurlini for Family Diary)

Nominations 1962 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Roman Polanski	Knife in the Water

Alain Resnais

Honored for : Last Year at Marienbad

André Cayatte

Honored for : The Crossing of the Rhine

Mario Monicelli

Honored for : The Great War

(Tie with Roberto Rossellini for General della Rovere)

Roberto Rossellini

Honored for : General della Rovere

(Tie with Mario Monicelli for The Great War)

Hiroshi Inagaki

Honored for : Rickshaw Man

Satyajit Ray

Honored for : Aparajito

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Honored for : Ordet

Renato Castellani

Honored for : Romeo and Juliet

Nominations 1954 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Federico Fellini	La Strada

René Clément

Honored for : Forbidden Games

Akira Kurosawa

Honored for : Rashomon

André Cayatte

Honored for : Justice Is Done

Nominations 1950 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Hamilton Luske	Cinderella
Wilfred Jackson	Cinderella
Clyde Geronimi	Cinderella

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Honored for : Manon

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