Winners list of Venice Film Festival

As of September 5, 2023, the winners of the main competition unit of Venice Film Festival are as follows:

The first session (1932)

Best Director: The Life of nicola eck.

Best Actor: Frederick Marceau's dr. jekyll and mr. hyde and Mr. Hyde.

Best actress: helen hayes's The Original Sin of Madelen claudette.

Section 2 (1934)

Best Foreign Language Film: Allen Islander

Best Director: Into the Mystery by Ji Mahathir and Love of Youth by Joe Rovenski.

Best Actor: Long Live Freedom by Juarez Pillay

Best actress: Katharine Hepburn, Little Woman.

Best Italian film: The Flag Bearer of Teresa

The third session (1935)

Best Foreign Language Film: anna karenine.

Best Italian film: Phantom

Best Director: king vidor's Wedding Night.

Best actor: Pierre blanchard's Crime and Punishment.

Best Actress: The Episode of Paula Veseli.

Section 4 (1936)

Best Foreign Language Film: The Emperor of California

Best Italian film: Libyan cavalry

Best Director: Jack Ford's Flanders Carnival

Best Actor: paul muni's Biography of louis pasteur.

Best actress: Anna Bella's Night Before the War.

The fifth session (1937)

Best Foreign Language Film: The Book of Dancing Needles

Best Italian film: Against Hannibal.

Best Director: The Hidden Elephant Prodigy by Robert Flaherty.

Best actor: Ymer Jennings "The Ruler"

Best actress: bette davis, Tears in a Red Shirt.

The sixth session (1938)

Best Foreign Language Film: Olympic Games

Best Italian film: Air Force Death Squad

Best Director: The Soldier's Holiday by Carl Ritter and The Fog Pier by Marcel Canel.

Best actor: leslie howard's Flower Girl.

Best actress: Cleopatra by Norma Shearer.

Seventh session (1939)

Best Italian Film: Abner mesias

Eighth session (1940)

Best Foreign Language Film: The Postman

Best Italian Film: The Siege of Alcazar.

The ninth session (194 1)

Best Foreign Language Film: President Kruger

Best Italian film: Helmet

Best director: a comedian of Gerhard Pepper.

Best Actor: Mr. Bonaparte by emmett Zuckney.

Best Actress: Louise Ulrici's Annelie.

Tenth (1942)

Best Foreign Language Film: The Great King

Best Italian film: Pena Gassi

Best Actor: A shot of Fosco Gracketty.

Best actress: Dick Sudbaum's The Great King

Eleventh (1946)

Best Foreign Language Film: Light of the Earth

Twelfth session (1947)

Best Foreign Language Film: Strike

Best Italian film: the pursuit of tragedy

Best Director: henry george Grozzo of the Paris Police Department.

Best actor: Mr Vincent, Pierre Fresnel.

Best actress: anna magnani Dear Angelina.

Thirteenth session (1948)

Best Foreign Language Film: Revenge of the Prince

Best Italian film: Under the Roman Sun

Best Director: The Trial by Gerhard Piper

Best Actor: Ernest deutsch's The Trial.

Best actress: jean simmons's Revenge of the Prince.

Fourteenth session (1949)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: Mistress Manon

Best Italian film: Blue Sky in the Swamp

Best Director: Blue Sky in the Swamp by Ginina.

Best Actor: joseph cotten's Portrait of Jenny.

Best Actress: Poisonous Dragon Pool by Oliver Di Haverland.

15th session (1950)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: "The referee is over"

Best Italian film: Tomorrow is too late

Best actor: Sam Jeff's Still in the Night.

Best actress: eleanor parker's Tears at the Prison.

The 16th session (195 1)

Saint Mark Golden Lion Award: Rashomon

Best Italian film: Liberty City Street

Best actor: Jean Gerbin's Night is My Kingdom.

Best actress: Vivien Leigh's A Streetcar Named Desire

Seventeenth (1952)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: No Games

Best Director: Kenji Mizoguchi's "Xihe Generation Girl"

Best actor: Frederick Marsh's Death of a Salesman

Eighteenth (1953)

Silver Lion Award of Saint Mark: Story of Rain and Moon, Apricot Outside the Wall

Best Director: Four advertisements of Wen Ya Reese.

Best actor: Henri Vilbert's "God without regrets"

Best actress: lilli palmer's four advertisements

19th session (1954)

St. Kyle Golden Lion Award: Romeo and Juliet

St. Mark's Silver Lion Award: On the Pier and Seven Warriors

Best Actor: jean gabin's Don't Touch Jewelry.

Twentieth session (1955)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: Commitment

Silver Lion Award of St. Mark: The Jumping Woman

Best Actor: Kenneth More's Pro-Ocean Deep.

21st meeting (1956)

Best actor: Burwell's Cross Section of Paris

Best Actress: maria schell, Hotel

Twenty-second session (1957)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: Invincible Man

Silver Lion Award of Saint Mark: White Night

Best Actor: The Return of the Prodigal Son by Anthony Furlonge Shioza.

Best Actress: Zetra Regenbiggs' Malva.

No.23 (1958)

St. Kyle Golden Lion Award: "One Life Can't Be Loose"

Saint mark silver lion award: lover

Best director: louis malle's lover.

Best actor: alec guinness's "Horse Mouth"

Best actress: sophia loren's Black Orchid

Twenty-fourth session (1959)

St Mark's Golden Lion Award: General Rovere and War

Best Actor: james stewart's Peach Bloody Case

Best actress: Madeleine Robson's two trips.

Twenty-fifth session (1960)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: Crossing the Rhine

Silver Lion Award of Saint Mark: Rocco and His Brothers

Best actor: john mills's sense of honor

Best actress: Shirley McLean's Peach Apartment

Twenty-sixth session (196 1)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: "Last year in Marienbad"

Silver Lion Award of St. Mark: "Opening the door to peace for all"

Best actor: Mifune Junlang's escort

Best actress: Susan Phelan's You Shouldn't Kill.

Twenty-seventh session (1962)

St. Kyle Golden Lion Award: Ivan's childhood

St. Mark's Silver Lion Award: Family Diary

Jury Special Award: "Indulge in Life"

Best Actor: Bite Lancaster's Birdman in Alcatraz.

Best actress: Emanuel Riva's lonely heart

Twenty-eighth session (1963)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: The Clubs of the City

Jury Special Award: Evil Fire and Necessary Conditions for Entering Life.

Best actor: tom jones of albert finney.

Best actress: Moliere by delfina Seyrig.

Twenty-ninth session (1964)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: Red Desert

Jury Special Award: Matthew

Best Actor: King and Country of Tom Courtenay.

Best actress: the love of Harriet Anderson.

Thirtieth session (1965)

St. Kyle Golden Lion Award: The Big Dipper

Jury special awards: Simon in the desert and I am 20 years old.

Best actor: toshiro mifune's red beard.

Best actress: Anne Gerado's Three Rooms in Manhattan.

Thirty-first session (1966)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: The War in Algiers

Jury Special Award: Chapagua and Unforgettable Past.

Best actor: Half a Man by Jacques Pell.

Best actress: Natalya Arinbasarova's "The First Teacher"

Thirty-second session (1967)

St. Kyle Golden Lion Award: Beauty in the daytime

Jury Special Award: China is a close neighbor, a girl from China.

Best Actor: Leaving Pisa samar Cheech "Morning"

Best actress: shirley knight's The Dutchman.

Thirty-third session (1968)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: the artist on the top of the circus tent

Jury Special Award: Socrates and Notre Dame of Turkey.

Best actor: John Mahler's face

Best actress: laura betti's theorem

Thirty-fourth session (1969)

Jury special award: god of half man and half beast, honor and glory.

Thirty-sixth session (1979)

Best Actor: leonov's Autumn Marathon.

Best actress: Nobuko Yinchuan's Strangulation.

Thirty-seventh session (1980)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: Gloria and Atlantic City

Best actor: Oscar Ratwell's first work, the walking style of george burns and Atkani.

Best actress: Liv ullman's Richard's Things, and Z.G. Lawrence's Gloria.

The thirty-eighth session (198 1)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: Heavy Years

Silver Lion Award of St. Mark: "Do you remember Dolly Bill?"

Jury special award: golden dreams, they don't need black ties.

Best actor: robert duvall's sincere confession.

Best actress: Lill Selous's Political Persecution.

Thirty-ninth session (1982)

St. Kyle Golden Lion Award: Situation

Special Jury Award: Order

Best Actor: robert powell's Order.

Best Actress: Bé Atrice Romand's Happy Marriage.

Fortieth session (1983)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: Carmen

Silver Lion Award of St. Mark: Black Cabin Street

Jury special award: farmhouse/thirty-five years later

Best Actor: matthew modine's Northern Lights.

Best actress: Darlene Letimo's Black Cabin Street.

Forty-first session (1984)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: Age of Peace and Sunshine

Silver Lion Award of Saint Mark: Sonata.

Jury special award: the darling of the moon

Best actor: Nasrudin Sa's Crossing Point

Best Actress: Pascal ogier's A Full Moon Night.

Forty-second session (1985)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: The End of the World

St. Mark's Silver Lion Award: Douste

Jury Special Award: "Lamp Boat"

Best actor: Gé rard de Padio, The Police

Forty-third session (1986)

St. Kyle Golden Lion Award: Green Light

St. Mark's Silver Lion Award: Kings and Movies

Jury Special Award: Love Story and Wild Pigeon

Best actor: Christmas gift from Carlo Delaney.

Best actress: the love story of Valeria Golilo

Forty-fourth session (1987)

Golden Lion Award of St. Kyle: Goodbye, children.

St. Mark's Silver Lion Award: Morris

Jury Special Award: "Collective Cheers"

Best actor: Morris by james wilby and hugh grant.

Best actress: Jiang Shouyan's Kind Girl.

Forty-fifth session (1988)

St. Kyle Golden Lion Award: Legend of St. Alcoholic

Silver Lion Award of Saint Mark: Scenery in Fog

Jury Special Award: "Jarop Camp"

Best actor: Don Amechi and joe mantegna's Things Change.

Best Actress: Women's Affairs by Isabel Huppert, and Madame Susanska by Shirley McLean.

Forty-sixth session (1989)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: City of Sorrow

St. Mark's Silver Lion Award: Memories of the Yellow House and the Death of a Tea Ceremony Master.

Jury Special Award: "Bright"

Best Actor: Marcelo Mastro and Massimo Troisi "When"

Best Actress: Peggy Ashcroft and Geraldine James's "She Left Early"

Forty-seventh session (1990)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: The Death of Rosencrantz and Gierden Stern

Silver Lion Award of Saint Mark: "My deskmate's angel"

Best Director: martin scorsese's The Boy.

Best actor: Oleg Borisov is the only witness.

Best Actress: Byakki Smoker by Gloria Munch Mayer.

Forty-eighth session (199 1)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: "Mongolian Spirit"

Silver Lion Award of St. Mark: Red lanterns are hung high, and I can't hear the sound of guitar anymore.

Jury Special Award: Divine Comedy

Best actor: Phoenix River is My Private Idaho.

Best actress: Edward II by Tilda Swinton.

Forty-ninth session (1992)

Golden Lion Award of St. Kyle: "Qiu Ju hits the official secret"

Silver Lion Award of St. Mark: Winter Heart, Ham Ham, Luxury Hotel.

Jury special award: the death of a mathematician in Naples

Best Actor: Glengarry Glenn Ross of Jack Lemmon.

Best Actress: Gong Li's "Qiu Ju Beats Official Secrets"

Fiftieth session (1993)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: Shortcut, Blue

St. Mark's Silver Lion Award: Mortgaged Life

Jury Special Award: Bad Boy Bobby

Best actor: Bad Boy Bobby by Fabio Banti Fogg.

Best Actress: Juliette Binoche's Blue.

Fifty-first session (1994)

Golden Lion Award of St. Kyle: Long Live Love and Shanghai Dawn.

Silver Lion Award of Saint Mark: Paradise in Dreams, Little Odessa

Jury Special Award: Born Killer

Best Director: America by Jenny Amelio.

Best Actor: Sunny Days by Yu Xia.

Best actress: Maria Mandalore's three brothers and sisters

Fifty-second session (1995)

St. Kyle Golden Lion Award: Tricycle Driver

Silver Lion Award of St. Kyle: The Comedy of God and the New Scout.

Best Actor: Black Boy by Gotz George.

Best Actress: The Ceremony by Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine bonnaire.

Fifty-third session (1996)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: Michael collins

Jury Special Award: Robber

Best Actor: Michael john collins of liam neeson.

Best Actress: Victoria TiVo's Glacia.

Fifty-fourth session (1997)

Saint Kyle Golden Lion Award: Fireworks

Jury Special Award: Osodo

Best actor: wesley snipes's one-night stand.

Best actress: robin tunney's Nicaragua, Nicaragua.

Fifty-fifth session (1998)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: "Such a Smile"

Jury Special Award: The Last Paradise

Best Director: Black Cat, White Cat by Emile Kush Tulka.

Best Actor: sean penn's Riot.

Best actress: Fandom Square by Katrina Deneufve.

Fifty-sixth session (1999)

St. Mark's Golden Lion Award: "No Child Left Behind"

Jury Special Award: "The Wind Takes Me Home"

Best Director: Bird is going home for the Spring Festival.

Best actor: Jim Brobent's "Singing and Playing"

Best actress: the erotic anecdote of Natalie Beyenne

Fifty-seventh session (2000)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: Circle

Jury Special Award: Before Night Fall

Best Director: The Wrestler directed by Butadeb dasgupta.

Best Actor: Before Nightfall by javier bardem.

Best Actress: Goddess of Ross Bourne 1967

Fifty-eighth session (200 1)

St. Mark Golden Lion Award: Monsoon Wedding Banquet

Jury Special Award: "Hot Days"

Best Director: babak Bayami's Secret Voting.

Best actor: the eyes of Lurgio Cascio

Best actress: Sandra Scarelli's eyes

Fifty-ninth session (2002)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Sister Flowers in Brothel

Jury Award: Madhouse

Best Director Award: Oasis

Best Actor Award: Stefano Akasi's Journey of Love

Best Actor Awards: Julian Moore in far from heaven and Wen Suli in Oasis.

Silver Lion Award for Best Short Film: Oasis

60th session (2003)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Return

Silver Lion Award Jury Award: Kite

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: Kitano Takeshi's Zuotou City

Best actor award: Sean Penn's "2 1 gram"

Best actress award: Katja Riemann's Rosenchase Street.

Sixty-first session (2004)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: vera drake

Jury Grand Prize Silver Lion Award: "Going to Sea"

Best Director Award: Jin Jide

Best Actor: javier bardem and Javier Bataan, "Going to the Sea"

Best Actress: vera drake directed by imelda staunton.

Sixty-second session (2005)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee.

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: The Uniform Lover by Philip Galere.

Jury Special Award: Mary

Best Director Award: Philippe Garrel's Ordinary Lover.

Best Actor: Good Night and Good Luck by david strathairn.

Best actress: Giovanna Metzo Giorno, The Beast in My Heart

Sixty-third session (2006)

Best film of Golden Lion Award: The Three Gorges Good Man

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: Top Secret Privacy

New Silver Lion Award: Manuel Clerides' Golden Gate

Jury Special Award: "Dalette"

Best Actor Award: Ben Affleck's Hollywood Manor.

Best Actress Award: helen mirren's The Queen.

Sixty-fourth session (2007)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Lust, Caution by Ang Lee.

Jury Special Award (tied): Millet and Mullet by Abdul Ketchech, and I'm not there by Todd Haynes.

Silver Lion Award for Best American Director: Excerpts and Revisions by Brian De Palma

Best actor: Brad Pitt's Assassination of the Gun Man.

Best actress: I'm not there by Cate Blanchett.

Sixty-fifth session (2008)

Best Film of Golden Lion Award: darren aronofsky's The Wrestler

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: Aleksei German Jr.' s Paper Warrior.

Jury Special Award: Tessa of Haile Gerima.

Best actor: silvio orlando as Giovanna's father.

Best actress: Dominique Blanco's Another Man

Sixty-sixth session (2009)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Mas Shurik's Lebanon

Jury Award: fatih akin's Soul Kitchen

Best Director Award: Xie Lin Nesat's Woman Without a Man.

Best Actor: colin firth's Single Man.

Best actress: kseniya rappoport's double time

Sixty-seventh session (20 10)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Somewhere

Jury Award: Jerzy Skolimowski's Necessary Killing

Best debut award: Salem Yus' The Most.

Best Director: The Trumpet of Sorrow by Alex Della Iglesia.

Best actor award: Vincent Gallo's killer skill

Best actress award: ariane labed's "Attenborough"

Sixty-eighth session (20 1 1)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Faust

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: Shangjun Cai's The Sea of People.

Jury Award: emanuele crialese's Inland

Best Actor Award: Michael Fassbender's "Shame"

Best actress award: Ye Dexian's "Sister Tao"

Sixty-ninth session (20 12)

Best Film Award: Mourning

Jury Award: Heaven: Faith

Best Director Award: paul thomas anderson's The Master.

Best Screenplay Award: After May by olivier assayas.

Best Actress Award: hadas Yalong's Fill in the Blank.

Best Actor Award: The Master by joaquin phoenix and philip seymour hoffman.

Seventieth session (20 13)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Gianfranco Rosi's "Rome Ring Expressway"

Jury Award: Cai Mingliang's Outing.

Jury Special Award: The Policeman's Wife

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: Miss Violence by alexandros Aranas.

Best Screenplay Award: steve coogan's philomena.

Best actor award: Themis Panou's "Miss Violence"

Best Actress Award: Palermo Wildflowers by Elena Cotta.

Seventy-first session (20 14)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: roy andersson's Quiet in the Cold Branches.

Best Film Jury Award: joshua oppenheimer's Silent Image.

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: White Night of the Postman directed by andrei konchalovsky.

Best actor: Adam Dreyfus' Hungry Heart.

Best Actress Award: Hungry Heart by Alba Rovacher.

Jury Special Award: sivas by Caen Mudesi.

Seventy-second session (20 15)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Lorenzo Vigas's From afar.

Jury Award: Charlie Kaufman's Out of Order

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: Pablo Trapero Crime Family

Best Screenplay Award: christian vincent's The Mink.

Best Actor Award: fabrice luchini's Mink.

Best actress award: valeria golino's "Miss You"

Jury Special Award: The Blockade by Amin Alper.

Best Newcomer Award: Abraham Ataha's Beast Without a Country.

Seventy-third session (20 16)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Lav Diaz's The Woman Who Left.

Jury Award: tom ford's Night Animals.

Best Screenplay Award: First Lady of Noah Oppenheim.

Best Director Award: andrei konchalovsky's War Paradise, amat escalante's Savage Area.

Best actor award: outstanding citizen of Oscar Martínez

Best Actress Award: la la land of Emma Stone.

Mastroianni Award for Best Newcomer: Paul Bell's Flantz.

Jury Special Award: Love with Inferiority by Anna Lily Amirpur

Seventy-fourth session (20 17)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: The Story of Water by Guillermo del toro.

Jury Grand Prize Silver Lion Award: Samuel Motz's Foxtrot Dance

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: Xavier Legrand's "Give Everything"

Best actor: Kamal El Bazaar "Shame"

Best actress: Hannah by charlotte rampling.

Best Screenplay Award: Three billboards in martin mcdonagh outside Ebin, Missouri.

Jury Special Award: Sweet Village of Warwick Thornton

Marcello mastroianni Award for Best Newcomer Actor: Charlie Plummer's "Horse Racing Pete"

Seventy-fifth session (20 18)

Best film in the Golden Lion Award: Alfonso Cuarón's Rome

Silver lion jury award: yorgos lanthimos's darling

Best Screenplay Award: The Ballad of Buster Kruger by Joe Coen and Ethan Coen.

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: Sister by Jacques Audiat

Best Actor Award: willem dafoe's The Doors of Eternity.

Best actress award: Olivia Coleman's darling

Jury Special Award: Jennifer Kent's Nightingale.

Newcomer Award: The Nightingale by Bacari Gannaba.

Seventy-sixth session (20 19)

Golden Lion Award for Best Film: Clown

Jury Award: "My Complaint"

Best Screenplay Award: Yang Fan's "Era Taiwan No.7"

Best Director Award: roy andersson's Never Ending.

Best actor: Martin Eden of Luca Marinelli.

Best Actress: Ariane Ascaride's Victory of the World.

Marcello mastroianni Prize (Best Newcomer Award): Toby Wallace's deciduous teeth.

Jury Special Award: "Mafia is not once again"

Seventy-seventh session (2020)

Jury Grand Prize Silver Lion Award: Michel Franco New Order

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's The Spy's Wife

Best actress award: Vanessa Kirby's Fragments of Women

Best Actor Award: Pierre Francesco Favino's Our Father.

Jury Special Award: Dear Comrade andrei konchalovsky.

Best Screenplay Award: Chaitanya Tamhani's The Believer.

Marcello mastroianni Award for Best Newcomer: Children of the Sun by Ruholla Zamagni.

Seventy-eighth session (202 1)

Best film at the Golden Lion Award: Audrey Wonder's "It's happening"

Jury Award Silver Lion Award: paolo sorrentino's Hand of God

Silver Lion Award for Best Director: jane campion's The Power of Dogs.

Best Screenplay Award: maggie gyllenhaal's Daughter in the Dark.

Best actress award: Penelope Cruz Sanchez's parallel mother

Best actor award: john arcilla's "Doomsday Killing God 2"

Jury Special Award: Michelangelo Frammartino's Cave

Marcello mastroianni Award for Best Newcomer: Philip scottie's The Hand of God.

Seventy-ninth session (2022)

Golden Lion Award: Laura Petras's Beauty and Bloody Events

Jury Award: Alice Diop's Saint Omer

Best Director: Luca Guadagnino's Bones and Everything.

Best Screenplay: martin mcdonagh's "The Banshee of Ineschelling"

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett's Tal.

Best actor: Colin Farrell's "The Banshee of Inselschelling"

Marcello mastroianni Award for Best Newcomer: Taylor Russell's Bones and Others.

Jury Special Award: Jia Faer Panahi's Land Without Bears.