Awards - Venice Film Festival - 1949-1958

Golden Lion for Best Film

• The Rickshaw Man (Hiroshi Inagaki)
• Love Is My Profession (Claude Autant-Lara)
• Une vie (Alexandre Astruc)
• Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita)
• The Eighth Day of the Week (Aleksander Ford)
• Night Light (Lars-Eric Kjellgren)
• The Lovers (Louis Malle)
• The Black Orchid (Martin Ritt)
• God's Little Acre (Anthony Mann)
• The Horse's Mouth (Ronald Neame)
• Rosemary (Rolf Thiele)
• La sfida (Francesco Rosi)
• Otarova vdova (Mikhail Chiaureli)
• The Wolf Trap (Jiří Weiss)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• The Lovers (Louis Malle)
• La sfida (Francesco Rosi)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Alec Guinness (The Horse's Mouth)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Sophia Loren (The Black Orchid)

FIPRESCI Prize

• The Wolf Trap (Jiří Weiss)

Golden Lion for Best Film

• The Unvanquished (Satyajit Ray)
• I sogni nel cassetto (Renato Castellani)
• The Baby Carriage (Tomotaka Tasaka)
• The Man Who Wagged His Tail (Ladislao Vajda)
• Los salvajes (Rafael Baledón)
• Only People (Branko Bauer)
• Melbourne Rendezvous (René Lucot)
• Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
• Oeil pour oeil (André Cayatte)
• A Hatful of Rain (Fred Zinnemann)
• Throne of Blood (黒澤明)
• Malva (Vladimir Braun)
• Le Notti Bianche (Luchino Visconti)
• Something of Value (Richard Brooks)
• The Story of Esther Costello (David Miller)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Luchino Visconti (Le Notti Bianche)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Anthony Franciosa (A Hatful of Rain)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Dzidra Ritenberg (Malva)

FIPRESCI Prize

• The Unvanquished (Satyajit Ray)

Golden Lion for Best Film

• The Awakening (Mario Camerini)
• Empire in the Sun (Enrico Gras)
• The Captain from Köpenick (Helmut Käutner)
• The Immortal Garnison (Zachar Agranenko, Eduard Tisse)
• The Ogre of Athens (Nikos Koundouros)
• Bus Stop (Joshua Logan)
• Veliki i mali (Vladimir Pogacic)
• Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
• Attack (Robert Aldrich)
• Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
• The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
• The Rocket from Calabuch (Luis García Berlanga)
• Main Street (Juan Antonio Bardem)
• Gervaise (René Clément)
• Bullfighter (Carlos Velo)
• The Crossing of Paris (Claude Autant-Lara)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Bourvil (The Crossing of Paris)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Maria Schell (Gervaise)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Main Street (Juan Antonio Bardem)
• Gervaise (René Clément)

Special Mention

• Kenji Mizoguchi (Street of Shame)
• Heinz Rühmann (The Captain from Köpenick)
• Anna Magnani (The Awakening)
• Franco Bernetti, Mario Craveri, Ubaldo Marelli, Giovanni Raffaldi (Empire in the Sun)
• Carlos Velo (Bullfighter)
• Zachar Agranenko, Eduard Tisse (The Immortal Garnison)
• Betsy Blair (Main Street)
• Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp)
• Juan Antonio Bardem (Main Street)

Golden Lion for Best Film

• The Word (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
• Les Mauvaises Rencontres (Alexandre Astruc)
• Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni)
• The Woman in the Painting (Franco Rossi)
• Il Bidone (Federico Fellini)
• The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
• Ciske de Rat (Wolfgang Staudte)
• The Deep Blue Sea (Anatole Litvak)
• Heroes and Sinners (Yves Ciampi)
• The Kentuckian (Burt Lancaster)
• Poprygunya (Самсон Самсонов)
• To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
• Princess Yang Kwei-fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)
• Men of Blue Cross (Andrzej Munk)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Michelangelo Antonioni (Le Amiche)
• Wolfgang Staudte (Ciske de Rat)
• Самсон Самсонов (Poprygunya)
• Robert Aldrich (The Big Knife)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Curd Jürgens (Heroes and Sinners)
• Kenneth More (The Deep Blue Sea)

Most Promising New Director

• Francesco Maselli (Abandoned)
• Andrzej Munk (Men of Blue Cross)
• Václav Krška (From My Life)
• William Fairchild (John and Julie)
• Alexandre Astruc (Les Mauvaises Rencontres)

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Romeo and Juliet (Renato Castellani)
• Legend of Bailiff Sansho (Kenji Mizoguchi)
• Seven Samurai (黒澤明)
• On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
• The Road (Federico Fellini)
• Executive Suite (Robert Wise)
• Air of Paris (Marcel Carné)
• Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
• The Detective (Robert Hamer)
• Woman of Rome (Luigi Zampa)
• The Wanton Countess (Luchino Visconti)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Kenji Mizoguchi (Legend of Bailiff Sansho)
• 黒澤明 (Seven Samurai)
• Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)
• Federico Fellini (The Road)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Jean Gabin (Air of Paris)

Special Jury Prize

• Executive Suite Pro cerou hereckou sestavu.

Absolute Grand Prize

• The Back of Beyond (John Heyer)

Golden Lion for Best Film

• I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
• Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
• The Adultress (Marcel Carné)
• Anni facili (Luigi Zampa)
• Neapolitans in Milan (Eduardo De Filippo)
• Moulin Rouge (John Huston)
• Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
• The Four Poster (Irving Reis)
• Good Lord Without Confession (Claude Autant-Lara)
• La guerra de Dios (Rafael Gil)
• Tales of Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
• Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin)
• Vozvrashchenie Vasiliya Bortnikova (Всеволод Пудовкин)
• The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (Aleksandr Ptushko)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Marcel Carné (The Adultress)
• Kenji Mizoguchi (Tales of Ugetsu)
• John Huston (Moulin Rouge)
• Federico Fellini (I Vitelloni)
• Aleksandr Ptushko (The Magic Voyage of Sinbad)
• Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin (Little Fugitive)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Henri Vilbert (Good Lord Without Confession)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Lilli Palmer (The Four Poster)

Bronze Lion

• La guerra de Dios (Rafael Gil)
• Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
• The Proud and the Beautiful (Yves Allégret)
• The Landowner's Daughter (Tom Payne)

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Forbidden Games (René Clément)
• The Brave Don't Cry (Philip Leacock)
• The Quiet Man (John Ford)
• Carrie (William Wyler)
• Death of a Salesman (László Benedek)
• Saikaku: Life of a Woman (Kenji Mizoguchi)
• Phone Call from a Stranger (Jean Negulesco)
• Mandy (Alexander Mackendrick)
• Europe '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith)
• Genghis Khan (Manuel Conde)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Fredric March (Death of a Salesman)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Ingrid Bergman (Europe '51)

Special Jury Prize

• The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird (Paul Grimault)
• Mandy (Alexander Mackendrick)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Beauties of the Night (René Clair)
• The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird (Paul Grimault) - Čestné ocenění

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• Nunnally Johnson (Phone Call from a Stranger)

Golden Osella - Best Original Music

• La Putain respectueuse (Georges Auric)

Golden Osella Best Set Design

• Carmen Dillon (The Importance of Being Earnest)

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Rashomon (黒澤明)
• Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
• Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske)
• Fourteen Hours (Henry Hathaway)
• Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
• The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)
• Teresa (Fred Zinnemann)
• La Nuit est mon royaume (Georges Lacombe)
• The River (Jean Renoir)
• Murder in the Cathedral (George Hoellering)
• Born Yesterday (George Cukor)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Jean Gabin (La Nuit est mon royaume)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Special Jury Prize

• A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)

Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution

• Léonce-Henri Burel (Diary of a Country Priest)

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• T.E.B. Clarke (The Lavender Hill Mob)

Golden Osella - Best Original Music

• Ace in the Hole (Hugo Friedhofer)

Best Italian Film

• Four Ways Out (Pietro Germi)

Special Prize

• Peter Pendrey (Murder in the Cathedral)

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Justice Is Done (André Cayatte)
• All the King's Men (Robert Rossen)
• The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
• The Blue Lamp (Basil Dearden)
• Caged (John Cromwell)
• Cinderella (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske)
• Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
• Isle of Sinners (Jean Delannoy)
• Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan)
• Seven Days to Noon (John Boulting, Roy Boulting)
• Father's Dilemma (Alessandro Blasetti)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Sam Jaffe (The Asphalt Jungle)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Eleanor Parker (Caged)

Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution

• Martin Bodin (Only a Mother)
• Jean d'Eaubonne (La Ronde)

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls (La Ronde)

Golden Osella - Best Original Music

• The Wild Heart (Brian Easdale)

Best Italian Film

• Tomorrow Is Too Late (Léonide Moguy)

Special Prize

• Cinderella (Walt Disney)
• Beaver Valley (Walt Disney)

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
• Aux yeux du souvenir (Jean Delannoy)
• Champion (Mark Robson)
• The Berliner (Robert A. Stemmle)
• Cielo sulla palude (Augusto Genina)
• Eva (Gustaf Molander)
• Johnny Belinda (Jean Negulesco)
• Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)
• The Snake Pit (Anatole Litvak)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Joseph Cotten (Portrait of Jennie)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit)

Best Italian Film

• Cielo sulla palude (Augusto Genina)