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Golden Lion#Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

{{Short description|Highest prize awarded at the Venice Film Festival}}

{{About|the film award|other uses|Golden Lion (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox award

| name = Golden Lion

| subheader = {{native name|it|Leone d'oro}}

| image =

| imagesize = 261px

| caption =

| awarded_for =

| presenter = Venice Film Festival

| location = Venice

| country = Italy

| year = 1949

| holder = The Room Next Door (2024)

| website = {{URL|labiennale.org/en/cinema|labiennale.org/cinema}}

}}

The Golden Lion ({{langx|it|Leone d'oro}}) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguished prizes.{{cite web | title=25 Must-See Films That Won the Venice Film Festival | url=https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/25-best-films-venice-film-festival-winners/ | publisher=IndieWire | year=2018 | access-date=2019-10-08}} In 1970, a second Golden Lion award was introduced, an honorary prize for people who have made an important contribution to cinema.

The prize was introduced in 1949 as the Golden Lion of Saint Mark (which was one of the best known symbols of the ancient Republic of Venice).{{cite web | title=Biennale Cinema History of the Venice Film Festival: The Forties and Fifties | url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/history/50/en/4792.html | publisher=La Biennale di Venezia | year=2008 | access-date=2008-05-28}} In 1954, the prize was permanently named the Golden Lion.

History

File:Golden Lion (prize).jpg

File:Mario Monicelli Roberto Rossellini Leone d'Oro.jpg and Mario Monicelli winning the Golden Lion in 1959 for General Della Rovere and The Great War, respectively]]

The first Golden Lion was awarded in 1949. Previously, the equivalent prize was the Gran Premio Internazionale di Venezia (Grand International Prize of Venice), awarded in 1947 and 1948. No Golden Lions were awarded between 1969 and 1979. According to the Biennale's official website, the hiatus was a result of the 1968 Lion being given to the radically experimental Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos; the website says that the awards "still had a statute dating back to the fascist era and could not side-step the general political climate. Sixty-eight produced a dramatic fracture with the past".{{cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/history/60/en/4794.html|title=Biennale Cinema History of the Venice Film Festival: The Sixties and Seventies|year=2008|publisher=La Biennale di Venezia|access-date=2008-05-28}} Fourteen French films have been awarded the Golden Lion, more than to any other nation. However, there is considerable geographical diversity in the winners. Eight American filmmakers have won the Golden Lion, with awards for John Cassavetes and Robert Altman (both times the awards were shared with other winners who tied), as well as Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain was the first winning U.S. film not to tie), Darren Aronofsky, Sofia Coppola, Todd Phillips, Chloé Zhao, and Laura Poitras.

Although prior to 1980, only three of 21 winners were of non-European origin, since the 1980s, the Golden Lion has been presented to a number of Asian filmmakers, particularly in comparison to the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, which has only been awarded to five Asian filmmakers since 1980. The Golden Lion, by contrast, has been awarded to ten Asians during the same time period, with two of these filmmakers winning it twice. Ang Lee won the Golden Lion twice within three years during the 2000s, once for an American film and once for a Chinese-language film. Zhang Yimou has also won twice. Other Asians to win the Golden Lion since 1980 include Jia Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, Trần Anh Hùng, Takeshi Kitano, Kim Ki-duk, Jafar Panahi, Mira Nair, and Lav Diaz. Russian filmmakers have won the Golden Lion several times, including since the end of the USSR.

To date, 33 of the 54 winners were European men (including Soviet/Russian winners). Since 1949, only seven women have won the Golden Lion for directing: Margarethe von Trotta, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, Sofia Coppola, Chloé Zhao, Audrey Diwan, and Laura Poitras (though in 1938, German director Leni Riefenstahl won the Festival when its highest award was the Coppa Mussolini). In 2019, Joker became the first movie based on original comic book characters to win the prize.{{cite news|last=Donaldson|first=Kayleigh|date=September 11, 2019|title=Joker's Insane Venice Film Festival Win Explained|url=https://screenrant.com/joker-film-festival-win-venice-golden-lion-explained/|work=Screen Rant|access-date=April 25, 2020}}

= Controversies =

From 1934 until 1942, the highest award of the festival was the Coppa Mussolini for Best Italian Film and Best Foreign Film. Even though other awards were attributed to Nazi propaganda films, such as Jud Süß (Suss, the Jew), an antisemitic production made at the behest of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, won the festival's Golden Crown{{Cite book |last=Friedländer |first=Saul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7KaCGDUys50C&pg=PA100 |title=The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 |date=2009-10-06 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-0-06-198000-8 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Kahn |first=Lothar |url=http://archive.org/details/insightactionlif0000kahn |title=Insight and action : the life and work of Lion Feuchtwanger |date=1975 |publisher=Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-8386-1314-6}} award in 1940.{{Cite book |last=Friedländer |first=Saul |title=The years of extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 |date=2008 |publisher=Harper Perennial |isbn=978-0-06-093048-6 |edition=First Harper Perennial |location=New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi Auckland |pages=100 |language=English}}{{Cite book |last=Kahn |first=Lothar |title=Insight and action: the life and work of Lion Feuchtwanger |date=1975 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |isbn=978-0-8386-1314-6 |location=Rutherford, N.J}}{{cite book |last=Etlin |first=Richard A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQXoZ3oZ3-cC&pg=PA143 |title=Art, culture, and media under the Third Reich |date=15 October 2002 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-22087-1 |location=Chicago |page=143 |access-date=11 November 2011}}

= ''Gran Premio Internazionale di Venezia'' =

After the end of the WWII during the reestablishment of the festival, The Southerner, directed by Jean Renoir, won the main prize at the 1946 edition. During 1947 and 1948 the equivalent prize for the Golden Lion was the Gran Premio Internazionale di Venezia (Grand International Prize of Venice), awarded to Karel Steklý's The Strike in 1947 and Laurence Olivier's Hamlet in 1948.

Winners

These films received the Golden Lions or the major awards of the Venice Film Festival:{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org:80/en/cinema/history/awards1.html |title=Golden Lions and major awards of the Venice Film Festival |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607233219/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/history/awards1.html?back=true |archive-date=7 June 2017 |df=dmy |access-date=31 December 2019 }}

File:Akirakurosawa-onthesetof7samurai-1953-page88.jpg won for {{sort|Rashomon|Rashomon}} (1950)]]

File:Carl Theodor Dreyer (1965) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg won for Ordet (1946)]]

File:Satyajit-Ray-Young.jpg}} (1957)]]

File:Michelangelo Antonioni portrait (cropped).jpg}} (1964)]]

File:Identite-LouisMalle-1958-Sacem.png}} (1980) and {{sort|Au revoir les enfants|Au revoir les enfants}} (1987)]]

File:John Cassavetes as Johnny Staccato 1959.jpg}} (1980)]]

File:Jean-Luc Godard at Berkeley, 1968.jpg}} (1983)]]

File:Identite-AgnesVarda-1962-Sacem.jpg}} (1985)]]

File:Zhang Yimou from "Full River Red" at Red Carpet of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2023 (53348405394).jpg}} (1992) and {{sort|Not One Less|Not One Less}} (1999)]]

File:Jafar Panahi, Cines del Sur 2007-1 (cropped).jpg}} (2000)]]

File:Ang Lee - 66eme Festival de Venise (Mostra) 2.jpg}} (2005) and {{sort|Lust, Caution|Lust, Caution}} (2007)]]

File:Jia Zhangke cropped.jpg}} (2006)]]

File:Sofia Coppola Cannes 2013.jpg}} (2010)]]

File:Pedro Almodóvar-69698.jpg}} (2024)]]

=== 1940s ===

class="wikitable"

!scope="col" style="width:1%;" | Year

!scope="col" style="width:10%;"| Title

!scope="col" style="width:10%;"| Director

!scope="col" style="width:3%;"| Production Country

style="text-align:center;" | 1949

| {{sort|Manon|Manon}}

| {{sortname|Henri-Georges|Clouzot}}

| France

=== 1950s ===

class="wikitable"

!scope="col" style="width:1%;" | Year

!scope="col" style="width:10%;"| English Title

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Original Title

!scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Director(s)

!scope="col" style="width:3%;"| Production Country

style="text-align:center;" | 1950

| {{sort|Justice Is Done|Justice Is Done}}

| {{sort|Justice est faite|Justice est faite}}

| {{sortname|André|Cayatte}}

| France

style="text-align:center;" | 1951

| {{sort|Rashomon|Rashomon}}

| {{sort|Rashōmon|羅生門}}

| {{sortname|Akira|Kurosawa}}

| Japan

style="text-align:center;" | 1952

| {{sort|Forbidden Games|Forbidden Games}}

| {{sort|Jeux interdits|Jeux interdits}}

| {{sortname|René|Clément}}

| France

style="text-align:center;" | 1953

! colspan="4" style="background-color:#EFD; padding-left:10%" data-sort-value="ω" | No award given, the jury was unable to decide the winner and the prize was declared void{{cite web |title=14. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia |url=http://asac.labiennale.org/it/passpres/cinema/annali.php?a=1953 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917215315/http://asac.labiennale.org/it/passpres/cinema/annali.php?a=1953 |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |access-date=April 23, 2020 |website=La Biennale di Venezia |publisher=Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee |language=it}}{{cite news |last=Zacharek |first=Stephanie |author-link=Stephanie Zacharek |date=September 5, 2013 |title=Venice update: Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves, James Franco's Child of God, and more |url=https://www.laweekly.com/venice-update-kelly-reichardts-night-moves-james-francos-child-of-god-and-more/ |access-date=April 5, 2020 |work=LA Weekly}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1954

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Romeo and Juliet|Romeo and Juliet}}

| {{sortname|Renato|Castellani}}

| United Kingdom

style="text-align:center;" | 1955

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Ordet|Ordet}}

| {{sortname|Carl Theodor|Dreyer}}

| Denmark

style="text-align:center;" | 1956

! colspan="4" style="background-color:#EFD; padding-left:10%" data-sort-value="ω" | No award given, the jury was unable to decide the winner and the prize was declared void{{cite journal |last=Roos |first=Fred |date=Spring 1957 |title=Venice Film Festival, 1956 |url=https://fq.ucpress.edu/content/ucpfq/11/3/242.full.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television |publisher=University of California Press |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=249 |doi=10.2307/1209744 |jstor=1209744 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331011219/https://fq.ucpress.edu/content/ucpfq/11/3/242.full.pdf |archive-date=March 31, 2022 |access-date=April 5, 2020 |quote=The report began with a few sentences of praise for each of the 14 films{{sic}}, and then selected the Japanese Harp of Burma and the Spanish Calle Mayor as being particularly outstanding. Since the jury was unable to decide which of these two films was the superior, it had decided not to award a grand prix "St. Mark Golden Lion" this year.}}{{efn|There was a tie between The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴) by Kon Ichikawa (Japan) and Calle Mayor by Juan Antonio Bardem (Spain) and the international jury was unable to decide the winner, the prize was declared void}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1957

| {{sort|Aparajito|Aparajito}}

| অপরাজিত

| {{sortname|Satyajit|Ray}}

| India

style="text-align:center;" | 1958

| {{sort|Rickshaw Man|Rickshaw Man}}

| {{sort|Muhōmatsu no isshō|無法松の一生}}

| {{sortname|Hiroshi|Inagaki}}

| Japan

rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 1959

| {{sort|General Della Rovere|General Della Rovere}}

| {{sort|generale della Rovere|Il generale della Rovere}}

| {{sortname|Roberto|Rossellini}}

| rowspan="2" | France, Italy

{{sort|Great War|The Great War}}

| {{sort|grande guerra|La grande guerra}}

| {{sortname|Mario|Monicelli}}

= 1960s =

class="wikitable"

!scope="col" style="width:1%;" | Year

!scope="col" style="width:10%;"| English Title

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Original Title

!scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Director(s)

!scope="col" style="width:3%;"| Production Country

style="text-align:center;" | 1960

| {{sort|Tomorrow Is My Turn|Tomorrow Is My Turn}}

| {{sort|Passage du Rhin|Le Passage du Rhin}}

| sortname|André Cayatte

| rowspan="2" | France

style="text-align:center;" | 1961

| {{sort|Last Year at Marienbad|Last Year at Marienbad}}

| {{sort|L'année dernière à Marienbad|L'année dernière à Marienbad}}

| {{sortname|Alain|Resnais}}

rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 1962

| {{sort|Family Diary|Family Diary}}

| {{sort|Cronaca familiare|Cronaca familiare}}

| {{sortname|Valerio|Zurlini}}

| Italy

{{sort|Ivan's Childhood|Ivan's Childhood}}

| {{sort|Ivanovo detstvo|Ива́ново де́тство}}

| {{sortname|Andrei|Tarkovsky}}

| Soviet Union

style="text-align:center;" | 1963

| {{sort|Hands over the City|Hands over the City}}

| {{sort|mani sulla città|Le mani sulla città}}

| {{sortname|Francesco|Rosi}}

| rowspan="3" | Italy

style="text-align:center;" | 1964

| {{sort|Red Desert|Red Desert}}

| {{sort|deserto rosso|Il deserto rosso}}

| {{sortname|Michelangelo|Antonioni}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1965

| {{sort|Sandra|Sandra}}

| {{sort|Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa|Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa ...}}

| {{sortname|Luchino|Visconti}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1966

| {{sort|Battle of Algiers|The Battle of Algiers}}

| {{sort|battaglia di Algeri|La battaglia di Algeri}}

| {{sortname|Gillo|Pontecorvo}}

| Algeria, Italy

style="text-align:center;" | 1967

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Belle de Jour|Belle de Jour}}

| {{sortname|Luis|Buñuel}}

| France

style="text-align:center;" | 1968

| {{sort|Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed|Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed}}

| {{sort|Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos|Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos}}

| {{sortname|Alexander|Kluge}}

| West Germany

style="text-align:center;" | 1969

! colspan="4" style="background-color:#EFD; padding-left:10%" data-sort-value="ω" | No award given, this edition of the festival was not competitive{{cite web |title=30. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia |url=http://asac.labiennale.org/it/passpres/cinema/annali.php?m=44 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713235722/http://asac.labiennale.org/it/passpres/cinema/annali.php?m=44 |archive-date=July 13, 2020 |access-date=April 23, 2020 |website=La Biennale di Venezia |publisher=Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee |language=it}}

= 1970s =

class="wikitable"

!scope="col" style="width:1%;" | Year

!scope="col" style="width:10%;"| English Title

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Original Title

!scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Director(s)

!scope="col" style="width:3%;"| Production Country

!scope="col" style="width:1%;" class="unsortable"| Ref.

style="text-align:center;" | 1970

! colspan="4" rowspan="3" style="background-color:#EFD; padding-left:10%" data-sort-value="ω" | No award given, the editions of the festival were not competitive

| rowspan="3" | {{cite web|url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/history-venice-film-festival|title=Venice Film Festival History 1932-2019: The 70s|website=La Biennale di Venezia|date=7 December 2017|language=en|access-date=April 23, 2020}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1971
style="text-align:center;" | 1972
style="text-align:center;" | 1973

! colspan="4" rowspan="4" style="background-color:#EFD; padding-left:10%" data-sort-value="ω" | No award given, the festival was not organized during these years{{efn|Even though a cinema section within the Biennale was organized with "proposals for new films", tributes, retrospectives, conventions, and some screenings.}}

| rowspan="6" |

1974
1975
1976
style="text-align:center;" | 1977

! colspan="4" style="background-color:#EFD; padding-left:10%" data-sort-value="ω" | No award given, the festival was not organized this year{{efn|Even though an event integrated into the Biennale project on "cultural dissent" focused on cinema in Eastern Europe took place.}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1978

! colspan="4" style="background-color:#EFD; padding-left:10%" data-sort-value="ω" | No award given, the festival was not organized this year

style="text-align:center;" | 1979

! colspan="4" style="background-color:#EFD; padding-left:10%" data-sort-value="ω" | No award given, this edition of the festival was not competitive

| {{cite news|date=August 28, 1979|title=Venice Film Fete in Quest of Glamour|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/28/archives/venice-film-fete-in-quest-of-glamour.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 24, 2020|quote=Carlo Lizzani, leftist director and the festival's new president, has not so far managed to restore the "Golden Lion" awards presented at Venice until 1968}}

= 1980s =

class="wikitable"

!scope="col" style="width:1%;" | Year

!scope="col" style="width:10%;"| English Title

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Original Title

!scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Director(s)

!scope="col" style="width:3%;"| Production Country

rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 1980

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Atlantic City|Atlantic City}}

| {{sortname|Louis|Malle}}

| Canada, France

colspan="2"| {{sort|Gloria|Gloria}}

| {{sortname|John|Cassavetes}}

| United States

style="text-align:center;" | 1981

| {{sort|Marianne and Juliane|Marianne and Juliane}}

| {{sort|Die Bleierne Zeit|Die Bleierne Zeit}}

| {{sortname|Margarethe|von Trotta}}

| rowspan="2" | West Germany

style="text-align:center;" | 1982

| {{sort|State of Things|The State of Things}}

| {{sort|Stand der Dinge|Der Stand der Dinge}}

| {{sortname|Wim|Wenders}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1983

| {{sort|First Name: Carmen|First Name: Carmen}}

| {{sort|Prénom Carmen|Prénom Carmen}}

| {{sortname|Jean-Luc|Godard}}

| France

style="text-align:center;" | 1984

| {{sort|Year of the Quiet Sun|A Year of the Quiet Sun}}

| {{sort|Rok spokojnego słońca|Rok spokojnego słońca}}

| {{sortname|Krzysztof|Zanussi}}

| Poland

style="text-align:center;" | 1985

| {{sort|Vagabond|Vagabond}}

| {{sort|Sans toit ni loi|Sans toit ni loi}}

| {{sortname|Agnès|Varda}}

| rowspan="2" | France

style="text-align:center;" | 1986

| {{sort|Green Ray|The Green Ray}}

| {{sort|Rayon vert|Le Rayon vert}}

| {{sortname|Éric|Rohmer}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1987

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Au revoir les enfants|Au revoir les enfants}}

| {{sortname|Louis|Malle}}

| France, West Germany

style="text-align:center;" | 1988

| {{sort|Legend of the Holy Drinker|The Legend of the Holy Drinker}}

| {{sort|leggenda del santo bevitore|La leggenda del santo bevitore}}

| {{sortname|Ermanno|Olmi}}

| Italy, France

style="text-align:center;" | 1989

| {{sort|City of Sadness|A City of Sadness}}

| {{sort|Bēiqíng chéngshì|悲情城市}}

| {{sortname|Hou|Hsiao-hsien||Hou, Hsiao-hsien}}

| Taiwan

= 1990s =

class="wikitable"

!scope="col" style="width:1%;" | Year

!scope="col" style="width:10%;"| English Title

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Original Title

!scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Director(s)

!scope="col" style="width:3%;"| Production Country

style="text-align:center;" | 1990

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead|Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead}}

| {{sortname|Tom|Stoppard}}

| |United Kingdom, United States

style="text-align:center;" | 1991

| {{sort|Close to Eden|Close to Eden}}

| {{sort|Urga – territoriya lyobvi|У́рга – территория любви}}

| {{sortname|Nikita|Mikhalkov}}

| Soviet Union

style="text-align:center;" | 1992

| {{sort|Story of Qiu Ju|The Story of Qiu Ju}}

| {{sort|Qiū Jú dǎ guānsi|秋菊打官司}}

| {{sortname|Zhang|Yimou||Zhang, Yimou}}

| China

rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 1993

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Short Cuts|Short Cuts}}

| {{sortname|Robert|Altman}}

| United States

{{sort|Three Colours: Blue|Three Colours: Blue}}

| {{sort|Trois couleurs: Bleu|Trois couleurs: Bleu}}

| {{sortname|Krzysztof|Kieślowski}}

| France, Poland

rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 1994

| {{sort|Before the Rain|Before the Rain}}

| {{sort|Pred doždot|Пред дождот}}

| {{sortname|Milčo|Mančevski}}

| Macedonia

{{sort|Vive L'Amour|Vive L'Amour}}

| {{sort|Àiqíng wànsuì|愛情萬歲}}

| {{sortname|Tsai|Ming-liang

Tsai, Ming-liang}}

| Taiwan

style="text-align:center;" | 1995

| {{sort|Cyclo|Cyclo}}

| {{sort|Xích lô|Xích lô}}

| {{sortname|Anh Hung|Tran}}

| Vietnam, France

style="text-align:center;" | 1996

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Michael Collins|Michael Collins}}

| {{sortname|Neil|Jordan}}

| Ireland, United Kingdom

style="text-align:center;" | 1997

| {{sort|Hana-bi|Hana-bi}}

| {{sort|Hana-bi|はなび}}

| {{sortname|Takeshi|Kitano}}

| Japan

style="text-align:center;" | 1998

| {{sort|Way We Laughed|The Way We Laughed}}

| {{sort|Così ridevano|Così ridevano}}

| {{sortname|Gianni|Amelio}}

| Italy

style="text-align:center;" | 1999

| {{sort|Not One Less|Not One Less}}

| {{sort|Yīgè dōu bùnéng shǎo|一個都不能少}}

| {{sortname|Zhang|Yimou||Zhang, Yimou}}

| China

= 2000s =

class="wikitable"

!scope="col" style="width:1%;" | Year

!scope="col" style="width:10%;"| English Title

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Original Title

!scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Director(s)

!scope="col" style="width:3%;"| Production Country

style="text-align:center;" | 2000

| {{sort|Circle|The Circle}}

| {{sort|Dayereh|دایره}}

| {{sortname|Jafar|Panahi}}

| Iran

style="text-align:center;" | 2001

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Monsoon Wedding|Monsoon Wedding}}

| {{sortname|Mira|Nair}}

| India

style="text-align:center;" | 2002

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Magdalene Sisters|The Magdalene Sisters}}

| {{sortname|Peter|Mullan}}

| Ireland, United Kingdom

style="text-align:center;" | 2003

| {{sort|Return|The Return}}

| {{sort|Vozvrashcheniye|Возвращение}}

| {{sortname|Andrey|Zvyagintsev|Andrey Zvyagintsev (director)}}

| Russia

style="text-align:center;" | 2004

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Vera Drake|Vera Drake}}

| {{sortname|Mike|Leigh}}

| United Kingdom

style="text-align:center;" | 2005

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Brokeback Mountain|Brokeback Mountain}}

| {{sortname|Ang|Lee}}

| United States

style="text-align:center;" | 2006

| {{sort|Still Life|Still Life}}

| {{sort|Sānxiá hǎorén|三峡好人}}

| {{sortname|Jia|Zhangke||Jia, Zhangke}}

| China

style="text-align:center;" | 2007

| {{sort|Lust, Caution|Lust, Caution}}

| {{sort|Sè, Jiè|色，戒}}

| {{sortname|Ang|Lee}}

| Taiwan, China, United States

style="text-align:center;" | 2008

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Wrestler|The Wrestler}}

| {{sortname|Darren|Aronofsky}}

| United States

style="text-align:center;" | 2009

| {{sort|Lebanon|Lebanon}}

| לבנון

| {{sortname|Samuel|Maoz}}

| Israel

= 2010s =

class="wikitable"

!scope="col" style="width:1%;" | Year

!scope="col" style="width:10%;"| English Title

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Original Title

!scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Director(s)

!scope="col" style="width:3%;"| Production Country

style="text-align:center;" | 2010

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Somewhere|Somewhere}} §

| {{sortname|Sofia|Coppola}}

| United States

style="text-align:center;" | 2011

| {{sort|Faust|Faust}} §

| Фауст

| {{sortname|Alexander|Sokurov}}

| Russia

style="text-align:center;" | 2012

| {{sort|Pietà|Pietà}}

| 피에타

| {{sortname|Kim|Ki-duk||Kim, Ki-duk}}

| South Korea

style="text-align:center;" | 2013

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Sacro GRA|Sacro GRA}}

| {{sortname|Gianfranco|Rosi|Gianfranco Rosi (director)}}

| Italy

style="text-align:center;" | 2014

|{{sort|Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence|A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence}}

|En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron

| {{sortname|Roy|Andersson}}

| Sweden

style="text-align:center;" | 2015

| {{sort|From Afar|From Afar}}

| {{sort|Desde allá|Desde allá}}

| {{sortname|Lorenzo|Vigas}}

| Venezuela

style="text-align:center;" | 2016

| {{sort|Woman Who Left|The Woman Who Left}}

| {{sort|Babaeng Humayo|Ang Babaeng Humayo}}

| {{sortname|Lav|Diaz}}

| Philippines

style="text-align:center;" | 2017

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Shape of Water|The Shape of Water}}

| {{sortname|Guillermo|del Toro}}

| United States, Mexico

style="text-align:center;" | 2018

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Roma|Roma}}

| {{sortname|Alfonso|Cuarón}}

| Mexico, United States

style="text-align:center;" | 2019

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Joker|Joker}}

| {{sortname|Todd|Phillips}}

| United States

= 2020s =

class="wikitable"

!scope="col" style="width:1%;" | Year

!scope="col" style="width:10%;"| English Title

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Original Title

!scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Director(s)

!scope="col" style="width:3%;"| Production Country

style="text-align:center;" | 2020

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Nomadland|Nomadland}}

| {{sortname|Chloé|Zhao}}

| United States

style="text-align:center;" | 2021

| {{sort|Happening|Happening}} §

| {{sort|L'Événement|L'Événement}}

| {{sortname|Audrey|Diwan}}

| France

style="text-align:center;" | 2022

| colspan="2" | {{sort|All the Beauty and the Bloodshed|All the Beauty and the Bloodshed}}

| {{sortname|Laura|Poitras}}

| United States

style="text-align:center;" | 2023

| colspan="2" | {{sort|Poor Things|Poor Things}}

| {{sortname|Yorgos|Lanthimos}}

| Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

style="text-align:center;" | 2024

| {{sort|The Room Next Door|The Room Next Door}}

| {{sort|La habitación de al lado|La habitación de al lado}}

| {{sortname|Pedro| Almodóvar}}

| Spain

;Notes

: § Denotes unanimous win

Multiple winners

Four directors have won the award twice:

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

{{main|Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement}}

File:Marcello Mastroianni 04.jpg receiving the prize in 1990]]

File:Steven Spielberg - GianAngelo Pistoia 1.jpg receiving the prize from Gillo Pontecorvo in 1993]]

File:Martin Scorsese 02.jpg receiving the prize from Monica Vitti, 1995]]

File:Omar Sharif 02.jpg receiving the prize in 2003]]

class="wikitable"

!Year!!Winner(s)

1970

| Orson Welles

1971

| Ingmar Bergman, Marcel Carné, and John Ford

1972

| Charlie Chaplin, Anatoli Golovnya and Billy Wilder

1982

| Alessandro Blasetti, Luis Buñuel, Frank Capra, George Cukor, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergei Yutkevich, Alexander Kluge, Akira Kurosawa, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, King Vidor, and Cesare Zavattini

1983

| Michelangelo Antonioni

1985

| Manoel de Oliveira, John Huston, and Federico Fellini

1986

| Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani

1987

| Luigi Comencini and Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1988

| Joris Ivens

1989

| Robert Bresson

1990

| Marcello Mastroianni and Miklós Jancsó

1991

| Mario Monicelli and Gian Maria Volonté

1992

| Jeanne Moreau, Francis Ford Coppola, and Paolo Villaggio

1993

| Steven Spielberg, Robert De Niro, Roman Polanski, and Claudia Cardinale

1994

| Al Pacino, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, and Ken Loach

1995

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

1996

| Robert Altman, Vittorio Gassman, Dustin Hoffman, and Michèle Morgan

1997

| Gérard Depardieu, Stanley Kubrick, and Alida Valli

1998

| Warren Beatty, Sophia Loren, and Andrzej Wajda

1999

| Jerry Lewis

2000

| Clint Eastwood

2001

| Éric Rohmer

2002

| Dino Risi

2003

| Dino De Laurentiis and Omar Sharif

2004

| Stanley Donen and Manoel de Oliveira

2005

| Hayao Miyazaki and Stefania Sandrelli

2006

| David Lynch

2007

| Tim Burton and Bernardo Bertolucci (for the last 75 years of the history of cinema)

2008

| Ermanno Olmi

2009

| John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich

2010

| John Woo

2011

| Marco Bellocchio

2012

| Francesco Rosi

2013

| William Friedkin

2014

| Thelma Schoonmaker and Frederick Wiseman

2015

| Bertrand Tavernier

2016

| Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jerzy Skolimowski

2017

| Jane Fonda and Robert Redford

2018

| David Cronenberg and Vanessa Redgrave

2019

| Julie Andrews and Pedro Almodóvar

2020

| Ann Hui and Tilda Swinton{{Cite web|last=Vivarelli|first=Nick|date=2020-07-20|title=Venice Film Festival to Honor Tilda Swinton, Ann Hui With Golden Lions for Career Achievement|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/global/venice-golden-lions-tilda-swinton-ann-hui-1234710827/|access-date=2020-07-23|website=Variety|language=en}}

2021

| Roberto Benigni and Jamie Lee Curtis

2022

| Catherine Deneuve{{Cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2022/06/01/news/venezia_catherine_deneuve_leone_alla_carriera-352081690/|title=Venezia 79. Leone d'oro alla carriera a Catherine Deneuve: "È una gioia"|website=La Repubblica|date=1 June 2022|access-date=1 June 2022}} and Paul Schrader{{Cite web|url=https://www.ansa.it/veneto/notizie/2022/05/04/venezia-cinema-leone-doro-alla-carriera-a-paul-schrader_499bea87-e8e4-4dd2-82a5-7e87700ba11a.html|title=Venezia Cinema: Leone d'Oro alla carriera a Paul Schrader|website=Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata|date=4 May 2022|access-date=4 May 2022}}

2023

| Liliana Cavani and Tony Leung Chiu-wai{{Cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/cinema-serie-tv/23_marzo_27/a-liliana-cavani-leone-d-oro-carriera-mostra-venezia-6474ebd2-cc89-11ed-8f1e-2019226a677d.shtml|title=A Liliana Cavani il Leone d'oro alla carriera dalla Mostra di Venezia|website=Corriere della Sera|date=27 March 2023|access-date=27 March 2023}}{{Cite web |date=2023-03-27 |title=Biennale Cinema 2023 {{!}} Director Liliana Cavani and actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement |url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/director-liliana-cavani-and-actor-tony-leung-chiu-wai-golden-lions-lifetime-achievement |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=La Biennale di Venezia |language=en}}

2024

| Peter Weir and Sigourney Weaver{{Cite web|url=https://www.labiennale.org/it/news/peter-weir-leone-d%E2%80%99oro-alla-carriera-della-biennale-cinema-2024|title=Peter Weir Leone d'Oro alla carriera della Biennale Cinema 2024|website=labiennale.org|date=9 May 2024|access-date=9 May 2024}}{{Cite web |date=2024-06-28 |title=Biennale Cinema 2024 {{!}} Sigourney Weaver Leone d'Oro alla carriera |url=https://www.labiennale.org/it/news/sigourney-weaver-leone-d%E2%80%99oro-alla-carriera |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=La Biennale di Venezia |language=it}}

2025

|Werner Herzog{{Cite web |date=8 April 2025 |title=Werner Herzog Leone d'Oro alla carriera |url=https://www.labiennale.org/it/news/werner-herzog-leone-d%E2%80%99oro-alla-carriera |access-date=8 April 2025 |website=labiennale.org}}

See also

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References

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