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Golden Lion prize trophy Roberto Rossellini and Mario Monicelli winning the Golden Lion in 1959 for General Della Rovere and The Great War respectively. The prize awarded as the Golden Lion was in 1949. Previously, the equivalent prize was the Gran Premio Internazionale di Venezia (Grand International Prize of Venice), awarded in 1947 and 1948 ...
It joins the Golden Lion, the festival's highest prize, which is instead awarded to a film in competition. [2] The prize was established in 1971. [3] Previously, the equivalent prize was the Omaggio per il complesso dell'opera, awarded in 1969 and 1970. [1] Previously, such tributes were given in the form of retrospectives.
Laura Poitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was the winner of the Golden Lion, making it the second documentary, following Gianfranco Rosi's Sacro GRA in 2013, to win the festival's top prize. [4] American filmmaker Paul Schrader and French actress Catherine Deneuve were awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. [5] [6]
Three-time Oscar-nominated actor Sigourney Weaver will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. Weaver said, “To be gifted this award is a ...
As pundits made their Golden Lion predictions in the last days of the Venice Film Festival, the general consensus was that it all depended on what kind of mood Damien Chazelle’s competition jury ...
The Golden Lion was won by Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola, a film based in part on Coppola's childhood as the daughter of acclaimed American director Francis Ford Coppola. [16] Quentin Tarantino, the president of the jury that awarded the prize, hailed the film saying, "it grew and grew in our hearts, in our minds, in our affections". [17]
The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was presented to American director Tim Burton. Once again all the films running the contest were shown for the first time as world premieres in keeping with the festival tradition since the Second World War .
International Prize: Golden Lion for painting – ex aequo Richard Hamilton and Antoni Tàpies; Golden Lion for sculpture – Robert Willson; Golden Lion for best national representation: German pavilion with Hans Haacke and Nam June Paik; Premio 2000 (young artist): Matthew Barney