Awards - Venice Film Festival - 1994-2003

Golden Lion for Best Film

• The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
• 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
• Alila (Amos Gitai)
• A Good Lawyer's Wife (Sang-soo Im)
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Ming-liang Tsai)
• Good Morning, Night (Marco Bellocchio)
• The Kite (Randa Chahal Sabag)
• Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom)
• Imagining Argentina (Christopher Hampton)
• Floating Landscape (Miu-suet Lai)
• The Miracle (Edoardo Winspeare)
• Pornography (Jan Jakub Kolski)
• Raja (Jacques Doillon)
• Rosenstrasse (Margarethe von Trotta)
• Secret File (Paolo Benvenuti)
• Feelings (Noémie Lvovsky)
• Loving Glances (Srdjan Karanovic)
• Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
• A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira)
• The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• The Kite (Randa Chahal Sabag)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Takeshi Kitano (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Sean Penn (21 Grams)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Katja Riemann (Rosenstrasse)

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor

• Najat Benssallem (Raja)

Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)

• The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev)

Luigi de Laurentis Special Mention

• Aleksey German Jr. (The Last Train)
• Salvatore Mereu (Three Steps Dancing)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Ming-liang Tsai)

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• Marco Bellocchio (Good Morning, Night)

Golden Lion for Career Achievement

• Omar Sharif
• Dino De Laurentiis

Golden Lion for Best Film

• The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
• Nearest to Heaven (Tonie Marshall)
• Bear's Kiss (Sergey Bodrov)
• Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears)
• Dolls (Takeshi Kitano)
• House of Fools (Andrey Konchalovskiy)
• Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
• The Power of the Past (Piergiorgio Gay)
• Frida (Julie Taymor)
• Fuhrer Ex (Winfried Bonengel)
• Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte)
• Julie Walking Home (Agnieszka Holland)
• The Best of Times (Tso-chi Chang)
• Nackt (Doris Dörrie)
• Nha fala (Flora Gomes)
• Oasis (Chang-dong Lee)
• Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
• The Tracker (Rolf de Heer)
• Almost Peaceful (Michel Deville)
• Velocità massima (Daniele Vicari)
• A Scandalous Journey (Michele Placido)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• House of Fools (Andrey Konchalovskiy)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Chang-dong Lee (Oasis)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Stefano Accorsi (A Scandalous Journey)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven)

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor

• So-ri Moon (Oasis)

Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)

• Due amici (Spiro Scimone, Francesco Sframeli)
• Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd)

FIPRESCI Prize

• 11'09''01 - September 11 (Ken Loach)
• Oasis (Chang-dong Lee)

Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution

• Edward Lachman (Far from Heaven)

Golden Lion for Career Achievement

• Dino Risi

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
• Behind the Sun (Walter Salles)
• Bully (Larry Clark)
• Dupa-amiaza unui tortionar (Lucian Pintilie)
• Eden (Amos Gitai)
• Hollywood Hong Kong (Fruit Chan)
• How Harry Became a Tree (Goran Paskaljevic)
• Dog Days (Ulrich Seidl)
• Loin (André Téchiné)
• Light of My Eyes (Giuseppe Piccioni)
• Red Moon (Antonio Capuano)
• The Navigators (Ken Loach)
• The Others (Alejandro Amenábar)
• Who Are You? (João Botelho)
• Raye makhfi (Babak Payami)
• Wild Innocence (Philippe Garrel)
• Address Unknown (Ki-duk Kim)
• The Triumph of Love (Clare Peploe)
• Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
• And Your Mother Too (Alfonso Cuarón)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• Dog Days (Ulrich Seidl)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Babak Payami (Raye makhfi)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Luigi Lo Cascio (Light of My Eyes)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Sandra Ceccarelli (Light of My Eyes)

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor

• Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna (And Your Mother Too)

Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)

• Bread and Milk (Jan Cvitkovič)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Wild Innocence (Philippe Garrel)

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón (And Your Mother Too)

Golden Lion for Career Achievement

• Eric Rohmer

Golden Lion for Best Film

• The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
• Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel)
• One Hundred Steps (Marco Tullio Giordana)
• Comedy of Innocence (Raoul Ruiz)
• Denti (Gabriele Salvatores)
• Dr. T & the Women (Robert Altman)
• O Fantasma (João Pedro Rodrigues)
• Freedom (Sharunas Bartas)
• The Goddess of 1967 (Clara Law)
• Liam (Stephen Frears)
• Holy Tongue (Carlo Mazzacurati)
• Durian Durian (Fruit Chan)
• The Man Who Cried (Sally Potter)
• Palavra e Utopia (Manoel de Oliveira)
• Johnny the Partisan (Guido Chiesa)
• Selon Matthieu (Xavier Beauvois)
• The Isle (Ki-duk Kim)
• The Wrestlers (Buddhadev Dasgupta)
• Our Lady of the Assassins (Barbet Schroeder)
• Platform (Zhangke Jia)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Buddhadev Dasgupta (The Wrestlers)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Rose Byrne (The Goddess of 1967)

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor

• Megan Burns (Liam)

Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)

• Poetical Refugee (Abdellatif Kechiche)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Thomas in Love (Pierre-Paul Renders)
• The Circle (Jafar Panahi)

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana, Monica Zapelli (One Hundred Steps)

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

• Our Lady of the Assassins (Barbet Schroeder)

Golden Lion for Career Achievement

• Clint Eastwood

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Not One Less (Yimou Zhang)
• Until Tomorrow (Gianni Zanasi)
• Appassionate (Tonino De Bernardi)
• The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallström)
• Crazy in Alabama (Antonio Banderas)
• Lies (Sun-woo Jang)
• Seventeen Years (Yuan Zhang)
• Holy Smoke (Jane Campion)
• Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean)
• Mal (Alberto Seixas Santos)
• Nordrand (Barbara Albert)
• Keep It Quiet (Benoît Jacquot)
• Empty Days (Marion Vernoux)
• Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
• Tydzień z życia mężczyzny (Jerzy Stuhr)
• An Affair of Love (Frédéric Fonteyne)
• The Venice Project (Robert Dornhelm)
• The Wind of the Night (Philippe Garrel)
• The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Yuan Zhang (Seventeen Years)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Jim Broadbent (Topsy-Turvy)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Nathalie Baye (An Affair of Love)

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor

• Nina Proll (Nordrand)

Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)

• Questo è il giardino (Giovanni Davide Maderna)

Luigi de Laurentis Special Mention

• Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Bye Bye Africa)

FIPRESCI Prize

• The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

• Empty Days (Marion Vernoux)

Golden Lion for Career Achievement

• Jerry Lewis

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Così ridevano (Gianni Amelio)
• L'albero delle pere (Francesca Archibugi)
• Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Medem)
• Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
• A Tale of Autumn (Eric Rohmer)
• Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
• Dancing at Lughnasa (Pat O'Connor)
• The Garden of Eden (Alessandro D'Alatri)
• Hilary and Jackie (Anand Tucker)
• Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan)
• Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)
• New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
• The Cloud (Fernando E. Solanas)
• Little Teachers (Daniele Luchetti)
• Place Vendôme (Nicole Garcia)
• Rounders (John Dahl)
• The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
• Next Stop Paradise (Lucian Pintilie)
• Traffic (João Botelho)
• Voleur de vie (Yves Angelo)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• Next Stop Paradise (Lucian Pintilie)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Emir Kusturica (Black Cat, White Cat)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Sean Penn (Hurlyburly)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Catherine Deneuve (Place Vendôme)

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor

• Niccolò Senni (L'albero delle pere)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Cabaret Balkan (Goran Paskaljevic)
• Train of Life (Radu Mihaileanu)

Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution

• Luca Bigazzi (Così ridevano)

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• Eric Rohmer (A Tale of Autumn)

Golden Osella - Best Original Music

• The Cloud (Gerardo Gandini)

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

• The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Golden Lion for Career Achievement

• Sophia Loren
• Andrzej Wajda
• Warren Beatty

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
• A ciegas (Daniel Calparsoro)
• Chinese Box (Wayne Wang)
• Wild Games (Benoît Lamy)
• Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea (Giuseppe M. Gaudino)
• Historie miłosne (Jerzy Stuhr)
• The Informant (Jim McBride)
• Dry Cleaning (Anne Fontaine)
• Niagara, Niagara (Bob Gosse)
• One Night Stand (Mike Figgis)
• Ossos (Pedro Costa)
• The Oyster and the Wind (Walter Lima Jr.)
• Hardboiled Egg (Paolo Virzì)
• Le Septième Ciel (Benoît Jacquot)
• The Vesuvians (Antonio Capuano, Pappi Corsicato, Antonietta de Lillo, Stefano Incerti, Mario Martone)
• The Thief (Pavel Chukhraj)
• The Winter Guest (Alan Rickman)
• Keep Cool (Yimou Zhang)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• Hardboiled Egg (Paolo Virzì)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Wesley Snipes (One Night Stand)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Robin Tunney (Niagara, Niagara)

Luigi de Laurentis Special Mention

• Roberta Torre (Tano da morire)

FIPRESCI Prize

• 24 7: Twenty Four Seven (Shane Meadows)
• Historie miłosne (Jerzy Stuhr)
• Gummo (Harmony Korine) - Čestné uznání

Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution

• Emmanuel Machuel (Ossos)

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• Anne Fontaine, Gilles Taurand (Dry Cleaning)

Golden Osella - Best Original Music

• Chinese Box (Graeme Revell)

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

• The Thief (Pavel Chukhraj)

Golden Lion for Career Achievement

• Gérard Depardieu
• Stanley Kubrick
• Alida Valli

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Michael Collins (Neil Jordan)
• Basquiat (Julian Schnabel)
• Brigands-Chapter VII (Otar Iosseliani)
• Carla's Song (Ken Loach)
• Segell ikhtifa (Elia Suleiman)
• For Ever Mozart (Jean-Luc Godard)
• The Funeral (Abel Ferrara)
• Men, Women: A User's Manual (Claude Lelouch)
• Ilona llega con la lluvia (Sergio Cabrera)
• Party (Manoel de Oliveira)
• Pianese Nunzio, 14 anni a maggio (Antonio Capuano)
• Ponette (Jacques Doillon)
• Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein)
• Buddha Bless America (Nien-Jen Wu)
• The Ogre (Volker Schlöndorff)
• Vesna va veloce (Carlo Mazzacurati)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• Brigands-Chapter VII (Otar Iosseliani)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Liam Neeson (Michael Collins)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Victoire Thivisol (Ponette)

Volpi Cup - Best Supporting Actor

• Chris Penn (The Funeral)

Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)

• Segell ikhtifa (Elia Suleiman)

FIPRESCI Prize

• The Dress (Alex van Warmerdam)
• L’âge des possibles (Pascale Ferran)
• Ponette (Jacques Doillon)

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• Paz Alicia Garciadiego (Deep Crimson)

Golden Osella - Best Original Music

• Deep Crimson (David Mansfield)

Golden Osella Best Set Design

• Mónica Chirinos, Marisa Pecanins (Deep Crimson)

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

• Carla's Song (Ken Loach)

Honorable Mention

• Kolya (Jan Svěrák)

Golden Lion for Career Achievement

• Robert Altman
• Michèle Morgan
• Vittorio Gassman
• Dustin Hoffman

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran)
• Det Yani Dokhtar (Abolfazl Jalili)
• Clockers (Spike Lee)
• A Comédia de Deus (João César Monteiro)
• The Crossing Guard (Sean Penn)
• La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)
• Guantanamera (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío)
• In the Bleak Midwinter (Kenneth Branagh)
• Cardiogram (Darezhan Omirbayev)
• Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore'eda)
• Nothing Personal (Thaddeus O'Sullivan)
• Who Killed Pasolini? (Marco Tullio Giordana)
• Romanzo di un giovane povero (Ettore Scola)
• Sin remitente (Carlos Carrera)
• Der Totmacher (Romuald Karmakar)
• The Star Maker (Giuseppe Tornatore)
• The Flying Dutchman (Jos Stelling)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• A Comédia de Deus (João César Monteiro)
• The Star Maker (Giuseppe Tornatore)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Götz George (Der Totmacher)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert (La Cérémonie)

Volpi Cup - Best Supporting Actor

• Ian Hart (Nothing Personal)

Volpi Cup - Best Supporting Actress

• Isabella Ferrari (Romanzo di un giovane povero)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran)
• Beyond the Clouds (Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders)

Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution

• Masao Nakabori (Maborosi)

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• Abolfazl Jalili (Det Yani Dokhtar)

Golden Osella - Best Director

• Kenneth Branagh (In the Bleak Midwinter)

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

• Who Killed Pasolini? (Marco Tullio Giordana)

Golden Lion for Career Achievement

• Woody Allen
• Alain Resnais
• Martin Scorsese
• Giuseppe De Santis
• Goffredo Lombardo
• Ennio Morricone
• Alberto Sordi
• Monica Vitti

Golden Lion for Best Film

• Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski)
• Vive L'Amour (Ming-liang Tsai)
• Lamerica (Gianni Amelio)
• Pigalle (Karim Dridi)
• Magic Hunter (Ildikó Enyedi)
• Little Odessa (James Gray)
• Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
• Six Days, Six Nights (Diane Kurys)
• Il Toro (Carlo Mazzacurati)
• The Tit and the Moon (Bigas Luna)
• Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (Jiří Menzel)
• A Shadow You Soon Will Be (Héctor Olivera)
• The Heart's Cry (Idrissa Ouedraogo)
• Il Branco (Marco Risi)
• Somebody to Love (Alexandre Rockwell)
• Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
• Três Irmãos (Teresa Villaverde)
• In the Heat of the Sun (Wen Jiang)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

• Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director

• Peter Jackson (Heavenly Creatures)
• James Gray (Little Odessa)
• Carlo Mazzacurati (Il Toro)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Yu Xia (In the Heat of the Sun)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Maria de Medeiros (Três Irmãos)

Volpi Cup - Best Supporting Actor

• Roberto Citran (Il Toro)

Volpi Cup - Best Supporting Actress

• Vanessa Redgrave (Little Odessa)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski)
• Vive L'Amour (Ming-liang Tsai)

Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution

• Christopher Doyle (Ashes of Time)

Golden Osella - Best Screenplay

• Cuca Canals, Bigas Luna (The Tit and the Moon)

Golden Osella - Best Director

• Gianni Amelio (Lamerica)

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

• Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (Jiří Menzel)

Special Mention

• Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers)

Golden Lion for Career Achievement

• Al Pacino
• Suso Cecchi D'Amico
• Ken Loach