Golden Lion

Golden Lion (Leone d'Oro)
Location Venice
Country Italy
Presented by Venice Film Festival
First awarded 1949
Currently held by Roma (2018)

The Golden Lion (Italian: Leone d'Oro) 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 prestigious and 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 Saint Mark (the winged lion which had appeared on the flag of the Republic of Venice).[1] Previously, the equivalent prize was the Gran Premio Internazionale di Venezia (Grand International Prize of Venice), awarded in 1947 and 1948. Before that, from 1934 until 1942, the highest awards were the Coppa Mussolini (Mussolini Cup) for Best Italian Film and Best Foreign Film.

History

The prize was first awarded in 1949. Previously, the equivalent prize was the Gran Premio Internazionale di Venezia (Grand International Prize of Venice), awarded in 1947 and 1948. 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".[2] 14 French films have been awarded the Golden Lion, more than that of any other nation. However, there is considerable geographical diversity in the winners. Five American filmmakers have won the Golden Lion, with awards for John Cassavetes and Robert Altman (both times the awards were shared with other winners who tied), as well as Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain was the first winning US film not to tie), Darren Aronofsky and Sofia Coppola.

Although prior to 1980, only 3 of 21 winners were of non-European origins, since the 1980s, the Golden Lion has been presented to a number of Asian filmmakers, particularly in comparison to the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, which has only been awarded to five Asian filmmakers since 1980. The Golden Lion, by contrast, has been awarded to ten Asians during the same time period, with two of these filmmakers winning it twice. Ang Lee won the Golden Lion twice within three years during the 2000s, once for an American film and once for a Chinese-language film. Zhang Yimou has also won twice. Other Asians to win the Golden Lion since 1980 include Jia Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, Trần Anh Hùng, Takeshi Kitano, Kim Ki-duk, Jafar Panahi, Mira Nair, and Lav Diaz. Russian filmmakers have also won the Golden Lion several times, including since the end of the USSR.

Still, to date 33 of the 54 winners were European men (including Soviet/Russian winners). Since 1949, only four women have ever won the Golden Lion for directing: Mira Nair, Sofia Coppola, German Margarethe von Trotta and Belgium's Agnès Varda.

Golden Lion

The following films received the Golden Lions or the major awards of the Venice Film Festival:[3]

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleDirectorCountry of origin
1940s
1946-1948 - Awarded as Grand International Prize of Venice
1946The SouthernerJean RenoirUnited States
1947The StrikeSiréna Karel SteklýCzechoslovakia
1948HamletLaurence OlivierUnited Kingdom
1949-present - Awarded as Golden Lion
1949ManonHenri-Georges ClouzotFrance
1950s
1950Justice Is DoneJustice est faiteAndré CayatteFrance
1951RashōmonAkira KurosawaJapan
1952Forbidden GamesJeux interditsRené ClémentFrance
1953No award
1954Romeo and JulietRenato CastellaniItaly
1955The WordOrdetCarl Theodor DreyerDenmark
1956No award [4]
1957The UnvanquishedAparajitoSatyajit RayIndia
1958Rickshaw ManMuhomatsu no isshoHiroshi InagakiJapan
1959General della Rovere (tie)Il generale della RovereRoberto RosselliniItaly
The Great War (tie)La grande guerraMario Monicelli
1960s
1960Tomorrow Is My TurnLe passage du RhinAndré CayatteFrance
1961Last Year in MarienbadL'année dernière à MarienbadAlain ResnaisFrance
1962Family Diary (tie)Cronaca familiareValerio ZurliniItaly
Ivan's Childhood (tie)Ivanovo detstvoAndrei TarkovskySoviet Union
1963Hands Over the CityLe mani sulla cittàFrancesco RosiItaly
1964Red DesertIl deserto rossoMichelangelo AntonioniItaly
1965Sandra of a Thousand DelightsVaghe stelle dell'Orsa ...Luchino ViscontiItaly
1966The Battle of AlgiersLa battaglia di AlgeriGillo PontecorvoItaly, Algeria
1967Beauty of the DayBelle de jourLuis BuñuelFrance
1968Artists Under the Big Top: PerplexedDie Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: RatlosAlexander KlugeWest Germany
1969–79No award
1980s
1980Atlantic City (tie)Louis MalleCanada, France
Gloria (tie)John CassavetesUnited States
1981Marianne and JulianeDie Bleierne ZeitMargarethe von TrottaWest Germany
1982The State of ThingsDer Stand der DingeWim WendersWest Germany
1983First Name: CarmenPrénom CarmenJean-Luc GodardFrance
1984A Year of the Quiet SunRok spokojnego słońcaKrzysztof ZanussiPoland
1985VagabondSans toit ni loiAgnès VardaFrance
1986The Green RayLe rayon vertÉric RohmerFrance
1987Au revoir les enfantsLouis MalleFrance
1988The Legend of the Holy DrinkerLa leggenda del santo bevitoreErmanno OlmiItaly
1989A City of SadnessBei qing cheng shiHou Hsiao-hsienTaiwan
1990s
1990Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are DeadTom StoppardUnited Kingdom, United States
1991Close to EdenUrgaNikita MikhalkovSoviet Union
1992The Story of Qiu JuQiu Ju da guan siZhang YimouChina
1993Short Cuts (tie)Robert AltmanUnited States
Three Colors: Blue (tie)Trois couleurs: BleuKrzysztof KieślowskiFrance, Poland
1994Vive L'Amour (tie)Ai qing wan suiTsai Ming-liangTaiwan
Before the Rain (tie)Пред дождот (Pred doždot)Milčo MančevskiRepublic of Macedonia
1995CycloXich loAnh Hung TranFrance, Vietnam
1996Michael CollinsNeil JordanIreland
1997FireworksHana-biTakeshi KitanoJapan
1998The Way We LaughedCosì ridevanoGianni AmelioItaly
1999Not One LessYi ge dou bu neng shaoZhang YimouChina
2000s
2000The CircleDayerehJafar PanahiIran
2001Monsoon WeddingMira NairUnited States, India
2002The Magdalene SistersPeter MullanIreland
2003The ReturnVozvrashcheniyeAndrey ZvyagintsevRussia
2004Vera DrakeMike LeighUnited Kingdom
2005Brokeback MountainAng LeeUnited States
2006Still LifeSanxia haorenJia ZhangkeChina
2007Lust, CautionSe, jieAng LeeUnited States, China, Taiwan
2008The WrestlerDarren AronofskyUnited States
2009LebanonSamuel MaozIsrael
2010s
2010SomewhereSofia CoppolaUnited States
2011FaustAlexander SokurovRussia
2012PietàKim Ki-dukSouth Korea
2013Sacro GRAGianfranco RosiItaly
2014A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on ExistenceEn duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaronRoy AnderssonSweden
2015From AfarDesde alláLorenzo VigasVenezuela
2016The Woman Who LeftAng Babaeng HumayoLav DiazPhilippines
2017The Shape of WaterGuillermo del ToroUnited States
2018RomaAlfonso CuarónMexico

Golden Lion Honorary Award

YearWinner(s)
1969Luis Buñuel[5]
1970Orson Welles
1971Ingmar Bergman, Marcel Carné, and John Ford
1972Charlie Chaplin, Anatoli Golovnya, and Billy Wilder
1982Alessandro Blasetti, Luis Buñuel, Frank Capra, George Cukor,
Jean-Luc Godard, Sergei Yutkevich, Alexander Kluge, Akira Kurosawa,
Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, King Vidor, and Cesare Zavattini
1983Michelangelo Antonioni
1985Manoel de Oliveira, John Huston, and Federico Fellini
1986Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
1987Luigi Comencini and Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1988Joris Ivens
1989Robert Bresson
1990Marcello Mastroianni and Miklós Jancsó
1991Mario Monicelli and Gian Maria Volontè
1992Jeanne Moreau, Francis Ford Coppola, and Paolo Villaggio
1993Steven Spielberg, Robert De Niro, Roman Polanski, and Claudia Cardinale
1994Al Pacino, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, and Ken Loach
1995Woody Allen, Monica Vitti, Martin Scorsese, Alberto Sordi,
Ennio Morricone, Giuseppe De Santis, Goffredo Lombardo, and Alain Resnais
1996Robert Altman, Vittorio Gassman, Dustin Hoffman, and Michèle Morgan
1997Gérard Depardieu, Stanley Kubrick, and Alida Valli
1998Warren Beatty, Sophia Loren, and Andrzej Wajda
1999Jerry Lewis
2000Clint Eastwood
2001Éric Rohmer
2002Dino Risi
2003Dino De Laurentiis and Omar Sharif
2004Stanley Donen and Manoel de Oliveira
2005Hayao Miyazaki and Stefania Sandrelli
2006David Lynch
2007Tim Burton and Bernardo Bertolucci (for the last 75 years of the history of cinema)
2008Ermanno Olmi
2009John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich
2010John Woo
2011Marco Bellocchio
2012Francesco Rosi
2013William Friedkin
2014Thelma Schoonmaker and Frederick Wiseman
2015Bertrand Tavernier
2016Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jerzy Skolimowski
2017Jane Fonda and Robert Redford
2018David Cronenberg and Vanessa Redgrave

Multiple winners

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Biennale Cinema History of the Venice Film Festival: The Forties and Fifties". La Biennale di Venezia. 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-28.
  2. ↑ "Biennale Cinema History of the Venice Film Festival: The Sixties and Seventies". La Biennale di Venezia. 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-28.
  3. ↑ "Golden Lions and major awards of the Venice Film Festival". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 7 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Due to a tie between Harp of Burma by Kon Ichikawa and Calle Mayor by Juan Antonio Bardem. See Roos, Fred. "Venice Film Festival, 1956" in The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television, Vol. 11, No. 3. (Spring, 1957), p. 249.
  5. ↑ "The awards of the Venice Film Festival". La Biennale di Venezia. Retrieved 2017-01-01.


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