Golden Lion facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Golden Lion (Leone d'Oro) |
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| Presented by | Venice Film Festival |
| Location | Venice |
| Country | Italy |
| First awarded | 1949 |
| Currently held by | Joker (2019) |
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). In 1954, the prize was permanently named Golden Lion. 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.
Golden Lion
The following films received the Golden Lions or the major awards of the Venice Film Festival:
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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| 1940s | ||||
| 1946: Awarded as "Best Feature Film" | ||||
| 1946 (7th) |
The Southerner | Jean Renoir | United States | |
| 1947–1948: Awarded as "Grand International Prize of Venice" | ||||
| 1947 (8th) |
The Strike | Siréna | Karel Steklý | Czechoslovakia |
| 1948 (9th) |
Hamlet | Laurence Olivier | United Kingdom | |
| 1949–1953: Awarded as "Golden Lion of Saint Mark" | ||||
| 1949 (10th) |
Manon | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France | |
| 1950s | ||||
| 1950 (11th) |
Justice Is Done | Justice est faite | André Cayatte | France |
| 1951 (12th) |
Rashomon | 羅生門 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| 1952 (13th) |
Forbidden Games | Jeux interdits | René Clément | France |
| 1953 (14th) |
No award given, the jury was unable to decide the winner, the prize was declared void. | |||
| 1954–present: Awarded as "Golden Lion" | ||||
| 1954 (15th) |
Romeo and Juliet | Renato Castellani | United Kingdom | |
| 1955 (16th) |
Ordet | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark | |
| 1956 (17th) |
No award given. There was a tie between The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴) by Kon Ichikawa (Japan) and Calle Mayor by Juan Antonio Bardem (Spain) and the international jury was unable to decide the winner, the prize was declared void. | |||
| 1957 (18th) |
Aparajito | অপরাজিত | Satyajit Ray | India |
| 1958 (19th) |
Rickshaw Man | 無法松の一生 | Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan |
| 1959 (20th) |
General Della Rovere | Il generale della Rovere | Roberto Rossellini | France, Italy |
| The Great War | La grande guerra | Mario Monicelli | ||
| 1960s | ||||
| 1960 (21st) |
Tomorrow Is My Turn | Le Passage du Rhin | André Cayatte | France |
| 1961 (22nd) |
Last Year at Marienbad | L'année dernière à Marienbad | Alain Resnais | |
| 1962 (23rd) |
Family Diary | Cronaca familiare | Valerio Zurlini | Italy |
| Ivan's Childhood | Ива́ново де́тство | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union | |
| 1963 (24th) |
Hands over the City | Le mani sulla città | Francesco Rosi | Italy |
| 1964 (25th) |
Red Desert | Il deserto rosso | Michelangelo Antonioni | |
| 1965 (26th) |
Sandra | Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa ... | Luchino Visconti | |
| 1966 (27th) |
The Battle of Algiers | La battaglia di Algeri | Gillo Pontecorvo | Algeria, Italy |
| 1967 (28th) |
Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel | France | |
| 1968 (29th) |
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed | Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos | Alexander Kluge | West Germany |
| 1969 (30th) |
No award given, this edition of the festival was not competitive. | |||
| 1970s | ||||
| 1970 (31st) |
No award given, these editions of the festival were not competitive. | |||
| 1971 (32nd) |
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| 1972 (33rd) |
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| 1973 | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. | |||
| 1974 1975 1976 |
No award given, the festival was not organized during these years. Even though a cinema section within the Biennale was organized with "proposals for new films", tributes, retrospectives, conventions, and some screenings. | |||
| 1977 | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. Even though an event integrated into the Biennale project on "cultural dissent" focused on cinema in Eastern Europe took place. | |||
| 1978 | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. | |||
| 1979 (36th) |
No award given, this edition of the festival was not competitive. | |||
| 1980s | ||||
| 1980 (37th) |
Atlantic City | Louis Malle | Canada | |
| Gloria | John Cassavetes | United States | ||
| 1981 (38th) |
Marianne and Juliane | Die Bleierne Zeit | Margarethe von Trotta | West Germany |
| 1982 (39th) |
The State of Things | Der Stand der Dinge | Wim Wenders | |
| 1983 (40th) |
First Name: Carmen | Prénom Carmen | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 1984 (41st) |
A Year of the Quiet Sun | Rok spokojnego słońca | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| 1985 (42nd) |
Vagabond | Sans toit ni loi | Agnès Varda | France |
| 1986 (43rd) |
The Green Ray | Le Rayon vert | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1987 (44th) |
Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | France, West Germany | |
| 1988 (45th) |
The Legend of the Holy Drinker | La leggenda del santo bevitore | Ermanno Olmi | Italy, France |
| 1989 (46th) |
A City of Sadness | 悲情城市 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| 1990s | ||||
| 1990 (47th) |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | United Kingdom, United States | |
| 1991 (48th) |
Close to Eden | У́рга – территория любви | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union |
| 1992 (49th) |
The Story of Qiu Ju | 秋菊打官司 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| 1993 (50th) |
Short Cuts | Robert Altman | United States | |
| Three Colours: Blue | Trois couleurs: Bleu | Krzysztof Kieślowski | France, Poland | |
| 1994 (51st) |
Before the Rain | Пред дождот | Milčo Mančevski | Macedonia |
| Vive L'Amour | 愛情萬歲 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan | |
| 1995 (52nd) |
Cyclo | Xích lô | Anh Hung Tran | Vietnam, France |
| 1996 (53rd) |
Michael Collins | Neil Jordan | Ireland, United Kingdom | |
| 1997 (54th) |
Hana-bi | はなび | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| 1998 (55th) |
The Way We Laughed | Così ridevano | Gianni Amelio | Italy |
| 1999 (56th) |
Not One Less | 一個都不能少 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| 2000s | ||||
| 2000 (57th) |
The Circle | دایره | Jafar Panahi | Iran |
| 2001 (58th) |
Monsoon Wedding | Mira Nair | India | |
| 2002 (59th) |
The Magdalene Sisters | Peter Mullan | Ireland, United Kingdom | |
| 2003 (60th) |
The Return | Возвращение | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| 2004 (61st) |
Vera Drake | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom | |
| 2005 (62nd) |
Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee | United States | |
| 2006 (63rd) |
Still Life | 三峡好人 | Jia Zhangke | China |
| 2007 (64th) |
..., Caution | 色，戒 | Ang Lee | Taiwan, China, United States |
| 2008 (65th) |
The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky | United States | |
| 2009 (66th) |
Lebanon | לבנון | Samuel Maoz | Israel |
| 2010s | ||||
| 2010 (67th) |
Somewhere § | Sofia Coppola | United States | |
| 2011 (68th) |
Faust § | Alexander Sokurov | Russia | |
| 2012 (69th) |
Pietà | 피에타 | Kim Ki-duk | South Korea |
| 2013 (70th) |
Sacro GRA | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy | |
| 2014 (71st) |
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron | Roy Andersson | Sweden |
| 2015 (72nd) |
From Afar | Desde allá | Lorenzo Vigas | Venezuela |
| 2016 (73rd) |
The Woman Who Left | Ang Babaeng Humayo | Lav Diaz | Philippines |
| 2017 (74th) |
The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | United States | |
| 2018 (75th) |
Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico | |
| 2019 (76th) |
Joker | Todd Phillips | United States | |
| 2020s | ||||
| 2020 (77th) |
Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | United States | |
| 2021 (78th) |
Happening § | L'Événement | Audrey Diwan | France |
| 2022 (79th) |
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras | United States | |
| 2023 (80th) |
Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | |
Multiple Winners
Four directors have won the award twice:
- André Cayatte (1950 & 1960)
- Louis Malle (1980 & 1987)
- Zhang Yimou (1992 & 1999)
- Ang Lee (2005 & 2007)
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Marcello Mastroianni receiving the prize in 1990
Omar Sharif receiving the prize in 2003
Images for kids
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Golden Lion prize trophy
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Roberto Rossellini and Mario Monicelli winning the Golden Lion in 1959 for General Della Rovere and The Great War respectively.
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Hou Hsiao-hsien won for A City of Sadness in 1989
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Takeshi Kitano won for Hana-bi in 1997
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Lorenzo Vigas won for From Afar in 2015
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Todd Phillips won for Joker in 2019
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See also
In Spanish: León de Oro (Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia) para niños
- Leone d’Argento (Silver Lion)
- Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival
- Golden Bear, the highest prize awarded at the Berlin Film Festival
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