What's On Celebrations | Exhibitions | Biennale | Mostra Cinema
Golden Lions Lions Films | Lions Lifetime
Years 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
Venice Mostra Film Festival - Golden Lions for Best Film since 1934
“Schéhérazade, Tell me a story” 2024: The room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
2023: Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos (United Kingdom)
2022: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Laura Poitras (USA)
2021: L’événement by Audrey Diwan (France)
2020: Nomadland by Chloé Zhao (USA)
2019: Joker by Todd Phillips (USA)
2018: ROMA by Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico)
2017: The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro (Mexico)
2016: The Woman Who Left by Lav Diaz (Philippines)
2015: Desde Allà (From Afar) by Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico)
2014: En duva satt pa en gren och funderade pa tillvaron (A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence) by Roy Andersson (Sweden, Germany, Norway, France)
2013: Sacro Gra by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)
2012: Pieta by Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)
2011: Faust by Aleksander Sokurov (Russia)
2010: Somewhere by Sofia Coppola (USA)
2009: Lebanon by Samuel Maoz (Israel, France, Germany)
2008: The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky (USA)
2007: Se, jie (Luxure) by Ang Lee (USA/China, Taiwan)
2006: Sanxia haoren (Still Life) by Jia Zhangke (China)
2005: Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee (USA)
2004: Vera Drake by Mike Leigh (United Kingdom)
2003: Vozvrashcheniye (Le Retour) by Andrei Zvyagintsev (Russia)
2002: The Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan (United Kingdom)
2001: Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair (USA)
2000: Dayereh by Jafar Panahi (Iran)
1999: Not One Less by Zhang Yimou (China)
1998: Così ridevano by Gianni Amelio (Italy)
1997: Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
1996: Michael Collins by Neil Jordan (Ireland)
1995: Cyclo by Tran Ahn Hung (Vietnam)
1994: Before the Rain by Milcho Manchevski (Macedonia) and Aiqing wansui - Long live love by Tsai Ming-liang (China), ex-aequo
1993: Short Cuts by Robert Altman (USA) and Trois couleurs. Bleu by Krzysztof Kieslowski (France), ex-aequo
1992: Qui Ju da guansi (The Qui Ju story) by Zhang Yimou (China)
1991: Urga by Nikita Mikhalkov (URSS)
1990: Rosencrantz and Guildestern are dead by Tom Stoppard (United Kingdom)
1989: Beiqing shenghsi by Hou Xiaoxian (Taiwan)
1988: La leggenda del santo bevitore by Ermanno Olmi (Italy)
1987: Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malle (France)
1986: Le rayon vert by Eric Rohmer (France)
1985: Sans toit ni loi by Agnès Varda (France)
1984: Rol Spokojnego Slonca by Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland)
1983: Prénom Carmen by Jean-Luc Godard (France)
1982: Der Stand der Dinge by Wim Wenders (Federal Republic of Germany)
1981: Die Bleierne Zeit (les années de plomb) by Margarethe von Trotta (Federal Republic of Germany)
1980: Atlantic City by Louis Malle (Canada) and Gloria (A summer night) de John Cassavetes (USA), ex-aequo
1969-1979: No prizes awarded
1968: Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos by Alexander Kluge (Federal Republic of Germany)
1967: Belle de jour by Luis Buñuel (France)
1966: La battaglia de Algeri by Gillo Pontecorvo
1965: Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa by Luchino Visconti
1964: Deserto rosso by Michelangelo Antonioni
1963: Le mani sulla città by Francesco Rosi
1962: Ivanovo detstvo by Andrej Tarkovskij (Urss) and Cronaca familiare by Valerio Zurlini
1961: L'année dernière à Marienbad by Alain Resnais (France)
1960: Le passage du Rhin by André Cayatte (France)
1959: Il generale Della Rovere by Roberto Rossellini and La grande guerra by Mario Monicelli (Golden Lions ex-aequo)
1958: Muhô-Matsu no Isshô by Hiroshi Inagaki (Japan)
1957: Aparajito by Satyajit Ray (India)
1956: Saint Mark Golden Lion not attributed
1955: Ordet by Carl Theodor Dreyer (Denmark)
1954: Romeo and Juliet by Renato Castellani (United Kingdom)
1953: Saint Mark Golden Lion not attributed
1952: Jeux interdits by René Clément (France)
1951: Rashô-mon by Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
1950: Justice est fait by André Cayatte (France) (Saint Mark Golden Lion)
1949: Manon by Henry-Georges Clouzot (France) (Saint Mark Golden Lion, Venice International Award)
1948: Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (United Kingdom) (Venice International Award)
1947: Sirena by Karel Stekly (Czechoslovakia) (Venice International Award)
1946: The Southerner by Jean Renoir (USA) (best film for the committee of journalists) 1942: Bengasi by Augusto Genina (Mussolini Cup for best Italian film); Der Grosse König by Veit Harlan (Germany)
1941: La corona de ferro by Alessandro Blasetti (Mussolini Cup for best Italian film); Ohm Krüger by Hans Steinhoff (Germany) (Mussolini Cup for Best Foreign Film)
1940: L'assedio dell'Alcazar by Augusto Genina (Mussolini Cup for best Italian film); Der Postmeister by Gustav Ucicky (Germany) (Mussolini Cup for Best Foreign Film)
1939: Abuna Messias by Goffredo Alessandrini (Mussolini Cup for best film)
1938: Luciano Serra pilota by Goffredo Alessandrini and Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl (Germany) (ex-aequo Mussolini Cup for best film)
1937: Scipione l'africano by Carmine Gallone (Mussolini Cup for best Italian film); Un carnet de bal by Julien Duvivier (France) (Best foreign film Award)
1936: Squadrone bianco by Augusto Genina (Mussolini Cup for best Italian film); Der Kaiser von Kalifornien by Luis Trenker (Germany) (Best foreign film Award)
1935: Casta Diva by Carmine Gallone (Mussolini Cup for best Italian film); Anna Karenina by Clarence Brown (USA) (Best foreign film Award)
1934: Teresa Confalonieri by Guido Brignone (Mussolini Cup for best Italian film); Man of Aran by Robert Flaherty (United Kingdom) (Best foreign film Award)
Years 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
Golden Lions Lions Films | Lions Lifetime
What's On Celebrations | Exhibitions | Biennale | Mostra Cinema
Back to Top of Page