2008 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Winner
The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky
A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
2008 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Nominees
A Perfect Day
Ferzan Ozpetek
Achilles and the Tortoise
Takeshi Kitano
Birdwatchers
Marco Bechis
Gabbla
Tariq Teguia
Giovanna’s Father
Pupi Avati
Il seme della discordia
Pappi Corsicato
Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
Barbet Schroeder
Jerichow
Christian Petzold
Milk
Semih Kaplanoglu
Paper Soldier
Aleksey German Jr.
Plastic City
Nelson Lik-wai Yu
Ponyo
Hayao Miyazaki
Rachel Getting Married
Jonathan Demme
Teza
Haile Gerima
The Burning Plain
Guillermo Arriaga
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
The Other One
Patrick-Mario Bernard
The Sky Crawlers
Mamoru Oshii
This Night
Werner Schroeter
