Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2019 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Joker
Todd Phillips
2018 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2017 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
2016 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Woman Who Left
Lav Diaz
2015 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
From Afar
Lorenzo Vigas
2014 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Roy Andersson
2013 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Sacro GRA
Gianfranco Rosi
2012 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Pieta
Ki-duk Kim
2011 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Faust
Aleksandr Sokurov
2010 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Somewhere
Sofia Coppola
2009 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Lebanon
Samuel Maoz
2008 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky
2007 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Lust, Caution
Ang Lee
2006 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Still Life
Zhangke Jia
2005 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2004 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Vera Drake
Mike Leigh
2003 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Return
Andrey Zvyagintsev
2002 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Magdalene Sisters
Peter Mullan
2001 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Monsoon Wedding
Mira Nair
2000 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Circle
Jafar Panahi
1999 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Not One Less
Yimou Zhang
1998 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Così ridevano
Gianni Amelio
1997 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Fireworks
Takeshi Kitano
1996 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Michael Collins
Neil Jordan
1995 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Cyclo
Anh Hung Tran
1994 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Before the Rain
Milcho Manchevski
1994 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Vive L’Amour
Ming-liang Tsai
1993 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Short Cuts
Robert Altman
1993 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Three Colors: Blue
Krzysztof Kieslowski
1992 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Story of Qiu Ju
Yimou Zhang
1991 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Close to Eden
Nikita Mikhalkov
1990 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
1989 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
A City of Sadness
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
1988 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Ermanno Olmi
1987 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle
1986 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Summer
Éric Rohmer
1985 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Vagabond
Agnès Varda
1984 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
A Year of the Quiet Sun
Krzysztof Zanussi
1983 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
First Name: Carmen
Jean-Luc Godard
1982 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The State of Things
Wim Wenders
1981 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Marianne & Juliane
Margarethe von Trotta
1980 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Atlantic City
Louis Malle
1980 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Gloria
John Cassavetes
1968 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless
Alexander Kluge
1967 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Belle de jour
Luis Buñuel
1966 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
1965 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Sandra
Luchino Visconti
1964 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Red Desert
Michelangelo Antonioni
1963 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Hands Over the City
Francesco Rosi
1962 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Family Portrait
Valerio Zurlini
1962 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Ivan’s Childhood
Andrei Tarkovsky
1961 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Last Year at Marienbad
Alain Resnais
1960 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Tomorrow Is My Turn
André Cayatte
1959 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Il generale Della Rovere
Roberto Rossellini
1959 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Great War
Mario Monicelli
1958 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
The Rickshaw Man
Hiroshi Inagaki
1957 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Aparajito
Satyajit Ray
1955 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Ordet
Carl Theodor Dreyer
1954 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Romeo and Juliet
Renato Castellani
1952 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Forbidden Games
René Clément
1951 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa
1950 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
Justice Is Done
André Cayatte
1949 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
