Awards - Venice Film Festival - 2004-2013
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2013 - 70th Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
- Sacro GRA (Gianfranco Rosi)
- Ana Arabia (Amos Gitai)
- Child of God (James Franco)
- The Police Officer's Wife (Philip Gröning)
- L'intrepido (Gianni Amelio)
- Jealousy (Philippe Garrel)
- Stray Dogs (Ming-liang Tsai)
- Joe (David Gordon Green)
- The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Miss Violence (Alexandros Avranas)
- Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
- Parkland (Peter Landesman)
- Philomena (Stephen Frears)
- The Rooftops (Merzak Allouache)
- Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan)
- Tracks (John Curran)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
- The Unknown Known (Errol Morris)
- Via Castellana Bandiera (Emma Dante)
- The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam)
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion - Award for Best Director
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor
Special Jury Prize
Orizzonti Award for Best Film
- Eastern Boys (Robin Campillo)
- My Name Is Hmmm... (Agnès B.)
- Little Brother (Serik Aprimov)
- The Third Half (Enrico Maria Artale)
- Palo Alto (Gia Coppola)
- Ruin (Michael Cody, Amiel Courtin-Wilson)
- Fish & Cat (Shahram Mokri)
- We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson)
- Wolf Children (Rick Ostermann)
- The Life After (David Pablos Sánchez)
- Algunas Chicas (Santiago Palavecino)
- Medeas (Andrea Pallaoro)
- First Snowfall (Andrea Segre)
- Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Shion Sono)
- The Sacrament (Ti West)
Orizzonti Award for Best Director
Orizzonti Award for Best Short
"L'Oréal Paris per il cinema" Award
FIPRESCI Prize
Future Film Festival Digital Award
Best Screenplay Award
Golden Lion for Career Achievement
2012 - 69th Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
- Pieta (Ki-duk Kim)
- Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)
- At Any Price (Ramin Bahrani)
- Dormant Beauty (Marco Bellocchio)
- It Was the Son (Daniele Ciprì)
- Fill the Void (Rama Burshtein)
- Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
- Passion (Brian De Palma)
- Superstar (Xavier Giannoli)
- To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
- Beyond Outrage (Takeshi Kitano)
- Thy Womb (Brillante Mendoza)
- Lines of Wellington (Valeria Sarmiento)
- The Fifth Season (Peter Brosens, Jessica Hope Woodworth)
- A Special Day (Francesca Comencini)
- Betrayal (Kirill Serebrennikov)
- The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Paradise: Faith (Ulrich Seidl)
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion - Award for Best Director
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor
Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film
- Three Sisters (Bing Wang)
- Wadjda (Haifaa Al Mansour)
- The Paternal House (Kianoush Ayari)
- Me Too (Aleksey Balabanov)
- Balancing Act (Ivano De Matteo)
- The Interval (Leonardo di Costanzo)
- Winter of Discontent (Ibrahim El-Batout)
- Tango libre (Frédéric Fonteyne)
- The Cutoff Man (Idan Hubel)
- Fly with the Crane (Ruijun Li)
- A Hijacking (Tobias Lindholm)
- Lions (Jazmín López)
- Pretty Butterflies (Salvatore Mereu)
- Low Tide (Roberto Minervini)
- Boxing Day (Bernard Rose)
- Yema (Djamila Sahraoui)
- Araf (Yeşim Ustaoğlu)
- The Millennial Rapture (Kōji Wakamatsu)
"L'Oréal Paris per il cinema" Award
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution
- Daniele Ciprì (It Was the Son) kamera
Golden Osella - Best Screenplay
Golden Lion for Career Achievement
2011 - 68th Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
- Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov)
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
- Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
- Texas Killing Fields (Ami Canaan Mann)
- The Ides of March (George Clooney)
- Quando la notte (Cristina Comencini)
- Terraferma (Emanuele Crialese)
- A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
- 4:44 The Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
- Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
- That Summer (Philippe Garrel)
- The Exchange (Eran Kolirin)
- Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Shame (Steve McQueen)
- Carnage (Roman Polański)
- Chicken with Plums (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi)
- Dark Horse (Todd Solondz)
- Himizu (Shion Sono)
- A Simple Life (Ann Hui)
- Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (Te-Sheng Wei)
- The Last Man on Earth (Gian Alfonso Pacinotti)
- Life Without Principle (Kei-fung To)
- People Mountain People Sea (Shangjun Cai)
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion - Award for Best Director
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor
Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film
- Kotoko (Shin'ya Tsukamoto)
- The Bird (Yves Caumon)
- Hail (Amiel Courtin-Wilson)
- Nocturnos (Edgardo Cozarinsky)
- Amore carne (Pippo Delbono)
- Sal (James Franco)
- Whores' Glory (Michael Glawogger)
- P-047 (Kongdej Jaturanrasamee)
- Die Herde des Herrn (Romuald Karmakar)
- Stateless Things (Kyung-mook Kim)
- Swirl (Clarissa Campolina, Helvécio Marins Jr.)
- Photographic Memory (Ross McElwee)
- Cut (Amir Naderi)
- Hollywood Talkies (Mia de Ribot, Oscar Perez)
- The Invader (Nicolas Provost)
- Shock Head Soul (Simon Pummell)
- Two Years At Sea (Ben Rivers)
- Alms of the Blind Horse (Gurvinder Singh)
- The Orator (Tusi Tamasese)
- Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours (Rirkrit Tiravanija)
- Verano (José Luis Torres Leiva)
- Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Marina de Van)
- Swan (Teresa Villaverde)
- The Sword Identity (Haofeng Xu)
- Would You Have Sex with an Arab ? (Yolande Zauberman)
Orizzonti Award for Medium-length Film
Orizzonti Award for Best Short
Orizzonti - Special Mention
Orizzonti Special Jury Prize
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution
- Robbie Ryan (Wuthering Heights) kamera
Golden Osella - Best Screenplay
Controcampo italiano prize - Feature film
Controcampo italiano prize - Short film
Controcampo italiano prize - Documentary
Controcampo Italiano Prize - Special Mention
Golden Lion for Career Achievement
2010 - 67th Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
- Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
- Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
- 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
- Tokio Blues (Anh Hung Tran)
- Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
- La pecora nera (Ascanio Celestini)
- We Believed (Mario Martone)
- La Passione (Carlo Mazzacurati)
- Silent Souls (Aleksey Fedorchenko)
- Three (Tom Tykwer)
- The Ditch (Bing Wang)
- Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Hark Tsui)
- Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
- Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- Miral (Julian Schnabel)
- Potiche (François Ozon)
- Barney's Version (Richard J. Lewis)
- Post Mortem (Pablo Larraín)
- Black Venus (Abdellatif Kechiche)
- The Last Circus (Álex de la Iglesia)
- Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman)
- Promises Written in Water (Vincent Gallo)
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Saverio Costanzo)
- Four Lovers (Antony Cordier)
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion - Award for Best Director
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor
Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film
- Summer of Goliath (Nicolás Pereda)
- The Nine Muses (John Akomfrah)
- The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat)
- The Forgotten Space (Noël Burch, Allan Sekula)
- Caracremada (Lluís Galter)
- Guest (José Luis Guerín)
- Jean Gentil (Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán)
- Anti Gas Skin (Gok Kim, Sun Kim)
- News from Nowhere (Paul Morrissey)
- The Sword and the Rose (João Nicolau)
- Dharma Guns (François-Jacques Ossang)
- Oki's Movie (Sang-soo Hong)
- Cold Fish (Shion Sono)
- Nainsukh (Amit Dutta)
- Per questi stretti morire (Giuseppe M. Gaudino, Isabella Sandri)
- Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller)
- Zelal (Mustafa Hasnaoui, Marianne Khoury)
- We Were Communists (Maher Abi Samra)
- The House by the Medlar Tree (Pasquale Scimeca)
Orizzonti Award for Medium-length Film
Orizzonti Award for Best Short
Orizzonti - Special Mention
Orizzonti Special Jury Prize
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution
Golden Osella - Best Screenplay
Controcampo italiano prize - Feature film
Controcampo Italiano Prize - Special Mention
Golden Lion for Career Achievement
2009 - 66th Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
- Lebanon (Samuel Maoz)
- Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette)
- A Single Man (Tom Ford)
- Between Two Worlds (Vimukthi Jayasundara)
- The Traveller (Ahmed Maher)
- Baaria (Giuseppe Tornatore)
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
- Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore)
- The Big Dream (Michele Placido)
- The Double Hour (Giuseppe Capotondi)
- Prince of Tears (Yonfan)
- Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)
- White Space (Francesca Comencini)
- Grandmother (Brillante Mendoza)
- Lourdes (Jessica Hausner)
- Mr. Nobody (Jaco Van Dormael)
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog)
- Persécution (Patrice Chéreau)
- Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)
- Survival of the Dead (George A. Romero)
- Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (Shin'ya Tsukamoto)
- The Road (John Hillcoat)
- White Material (Claire Denis)
- Accident (Soi Cheang Pou-soi)
- Women Without Men (Shirin Neshat)
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion - Award for Best Director
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor
Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film
- Clash (Pepe Diokno)
- One-Zero (Kamla Abu Zekry)
- Buried Secrets (Raja Amari)
- Zarte Parasiten (Christian Becker, Oliver Schwabe)
- Adrift (Chuyên Bui Thac)
- Crush (Pyotr Buslov, Aleksey German Jr., Boris Khlebnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ivan Vyrypaev)
- Repo Chick (Alex Cox)
- 1428 (Haibin Du)
- Aadmi Ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniya (Amit Dutta)
- Paraiso (Héctor Gálvez)
- I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You (Karim Aïnouz, Marcelo Gomes)
- I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
- Cow (Hu Guan)
- Once Upon a Time Proletarian: 12 Tales of a Country (Xiaolu Guo)
- Sunstroke (Daniela Thomas)
- Woman on Fire Looks for Water (Woo Ming Jin)
- Villalobos (Romuald Karmakar)
- Judge (Jie Liu)
- Il colore delle parole (Marco Simon Puccioni)
- Pepperminta (Pipilotti Rist)
- Varese: The One All Alone (Frank Scheffer)
- Totò (Peter Schreiner)
- Bets & Wedding Dresses (Vincenzo Terracciano)
Orizzonti Award for Documentary Film
Orizzonti - Special Mention
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution
Golden Osella - Best Screenplay
Controcampo italiano prize - Feature film
Controcampo Italiano Prize - Special Mention
Golden Lion for Career Achievement
2008 - 65th Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
- The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
- The Burning Plain (Guillermo Arriaga)
- Giovanna's Father (Pupi Avati)
- Birdwatchers (Marco Bechis)
- The Other One (Patrick-Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic)
- The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
- Il seme della discordia (Pappi Corsicato)
- Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
- Morgentau (Haile Gerima)
- Paper Soldier (Aleksey German Jr.)
- Milk (Semih Kaplanoğlu)
- Achilles and the Tortoise (Takeshi Kitano)
- Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Vegas: Based on a True Story (Amir Naderi)
- The Sky Crawlers (Mamoru Oshii)
- A Perfect Day (Ferzan Ozpetek)
- Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
- Inju (Barbet Schroeder)
- This Night (Werner Schroeter)
- Gabbla (Tariq Teguia)
- Plastic City (Nelson Yu Lik-wai)
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion - Award for Best Director
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor
Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film
- Melancholia (Lav Diaz)
- Antonioni su Antonioni (Carlo Di Carlo)
- Below Sea Level (Gianfranco Rosi)
- The Herb of the Rat (Júlio Bressane)
- L'exil et le royaume (Jonathan Le Fourn, Andrei Schtakleff)
- The Germans' Factory (Mimmo Calopresti)
- The Inheritors (Eugenio Polgovsky)
- In Paraguay (Ross McElwee)
- Puisque nous sommes nés (Jean-Pierre Duret, Andrea Santana)
- Only One Name in the Headlines (Daniele Di Biasio)
- ThyssenKrupp Blues (Pietro Balla, Monica Repetto)
- Valentino: The Last Emperor (Matt Tyrnauer)
- Venezia '68 (Antonello Sarno)
- Verso est (Laura Angiulli)
- Wo Men (Wenhai Huang)
- Z32 (Avi Mograbi)
- Sex My Live (Bahman Mo'tamedian)
Orizzonti Award for Documentary Film
Orizzonti - Special Mention
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution
Golden Osella - Best Screenplay
Special Lion for the Overall Work
Golden Lion for Career Achievement
2007 - 64th Venice Film Festival
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
I'm Not There
(Todd Haynes)The Secret of the Grain
(Abdellatif Kechiche)Golden Lion for Best Film
- Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
- The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
- Sleuth (Kenneth Branagh)
- This is chaos (Youssef Chahine)
- Redacted (Brian De Palma)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
- Fallen Heroes (Paolo Franchi)
- Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
- Nightwatching (Peter Greenaway)
- In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
- In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis)
- I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
- The Sun Also Rises (Wen Jiang)
- Help Me, Eros (Kang-Sheng Lee)
- The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche)
- It's a Free World... (Ken Loach)
- L'Ora di punta (Vincenzo Marra)
- Sukijaki Western Džango (Takashi Miike)
- 12 (Nikita Mikhalkov)
- The Sweet and the Bitter (Andrea Porporati)
- Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Eric Rohmer)
- Mad Detective (Kei-fung To, Ka-fai Wai)
- Atonement (Joe Wright)
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion - Award for Best Director
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor
Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film
- Autumn Ball (Veiko Õunpuu)
- The Beloved (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Anabazys (Joel Pizzini, Paloma Rocha)
- Drifter (Cao Guimarães)
- Lou Reed's Berlin (Julian Schnabel)
- Cochochi (Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán)
- The Silence Before Bach (Pere Portabella)
- Exodus (Penny Woolcock)
- With A Girl Of Black Soil (Soo-il Jeon)
- The Story of Richard O (Damien Odoul)
- Death in the Land of Encantos (Lav Diaz)
- Mothers (Barbara Cupisti)
- Misbegotten (João Canijo)
- Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (Jonathan Demme)
- Medea Miracle (Tonino De Bernardi)
- The Obscure (Yue Lü)
- Crossing the Line (Pietro Marcello)
- Sad Vacation (Shinji Aoyama)
- Umbrella (Haibin Du)
- Searchers 2.0 (Alex Cox)
- Dust (Hartmut Bitomsky)
- Useless (Zhangke Jia)
Orizzonti Award for Documentary Film
Orizzonti Special Jury Prize
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution
Golden Osella - Best Screenplay
Special Lion for the Overall Work
Golden Lion for Career Achievement
2006 - 63rd Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
- Still Life (Zhangke Jia)
- Falling (Barbara Albert)
- The Missing Star (Gianni Amelio)
- The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
- Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter)
- The Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese)
- Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
- The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)
- Bobby (Emilio Estevez)
- The Queen (Stephen Frears)
- Dry Season (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
- The Untouchable (Benoît Jacquot)
- Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
- Private Property (Joachim Lafosse)
- Bugmaster (Katsuhiro Ōtomo)
- Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
- These Encounters of Theirs (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub)
- Exiled (Kei-fung To)
- I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Ming-liang Tsai)
- Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
- Euphoria (Ivan Vyrypaev)
- Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion - Award for Best Director
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor
Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film
- Courthouse on Horseback (Jie Liu)
- Suely in the Sky (Karim Aïnouz)
- I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave (Hala Abdallah, Ammar Al Beik)
- Crickets (Shinji Aoyama)
- Bellissime 2 (Giovanna Gagliardo)
- The Hottest State (Ethan Hawke)
- Rain Dogs (Yuhang Ho)
- Dong (Zhangke Jia)
- Free Floating (Boris Khlebnikov)
- The U.S. vs. John Lennon (David Leaf, John Scheinfeld)
- Cobrador: In God We Trust (Paul Leduc)
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee)
- Infamous (Douglas McGrath)
- Requiem from Java (Garin Nugroho)
- Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters (Mamoru Oshii)
- Quijote (Mimmo Paladino)
- Heimat-Fragmente: Die Frauen (Edgar Reitz)
- Non prendere impegni stasera (Gianluca Maria Tavarelli)
- Rome Rather Than You (Tariq Teguia)
Orizzonti Award for Documentary Film
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution
Golden Osella - Best Screenplay
Special Lion for the Overall Work
Golden Lion for Career Achievement
2005 - 62nd Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
- Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
- The Second Wedding Night (Pupi Avati)
- The Fatalist (João Botelho)
- Heading South (Laurent Cantet)
- Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
- Don't Tell (Cristina Comencini)
- Days of Abandonment (Roberto Faenza)
- Mary (Abel Ferrara)
- Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
- Garpastum (Aleksey German Jr.)
- The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam)
- Everlasting Regret (Stanley Kwan)
- Proof (John Madden)
- The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles)
- Magic Mirror (Manoel de Oliveira)
- Lady Vengeance (Chan-wook Park)
- Romance & Cigarettes (John Turturro)
- Persona non grata (Krzysztof Zanussi)
- Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano)
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion - Award for Best Director
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor
Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film
- East of Paradise (Lech Kowalski)
- Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney)
- Musikanten (Franco Battiato)
- First on the Moon (Aleksey Fedorchenko)
- Árido Movie (Lírio Ferreira)
- Workingman's Death (Michael Glawogger)
- Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning)
- The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog)
- Vocal Parallels (Rustam Khamdamov)
- Yolda - Rüzgar geri getirirse (Erden Kiral)
- Dam Street (Yu Li)
- Carmen (Jean-Pierre Limosin)
- Veruschka: A Life for the Camera (Bernd Böhm, Paul Morrissey)
- Perpetual Motion (Ying Ning)
- Texas (Fausto Paravidino)
- Everything Is Illuminated (Liev Schreiber)
- The Dignity of the Nobodies (Fernando E. Solanas)
Orizzonti Award for Documentary Film
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution
Golden Osella - Best Screenplay
Special Lion for the Overall Work
Golden Lion for Career Achievement
2004 - 61st Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
- Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
- 5x2 (François Ozon)
- 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim)
- Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
- The Keys to the House (Gianni Amelio)
- Delivery (Nikos Panayotopoulos)
- Low Life (Kwon-taek Im)
- Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
- The Intruder (Claire Denis)
- Café Lumière (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
- Land of Plenty (Wim Wenders)
- Radio Alice (Guido Chiesa)
- The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
- Ovunque sei (Michele Placido)
- Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
- Promised Land (Amos Gitai)
- Kings & Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Stray Dogs (Marzieh Meshkini)
- The World (Zhangke Jia)
- All Winter Without Fire (Greg Zglinski)
- Udaljonnyj dustup (Svetlana Proskurina)
- Vanity Fair (Mira Nair)
Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion - Award for Best Director
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor
Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award)
Luigi de Laurentis Special Mention
Orizzonti Award for Best Film
Orizzonti - Special Mention
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution
- Howl's Moving Castle (Studio Ghibli)