Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2019 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
An Officer and a Spy
Roman Polanski
2019 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be
Franco Maresco
2018 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos
2018 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Nightingale
Jennifer Kent
2017 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Foxtrot
Samuel Maoz
2017 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Sweet Country
Warwick Thornton
2016 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Nocturnal Animals
Tom Ford
2016 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Bad Batch
Ana Lily Amirpour
2015 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman
2015 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Frenzy
Emin Alper
2014 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Sivas
Kaan Müjdeci
2014 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Look of Silence
Joshua Oppenheimer
2013 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Stray Dogs
Ming-liang Tsai
2013 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Policeman’s Wife
Philip Gröning
2012 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Paradise: Faith
Ulrich Seidl
2011 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Terraferma
Emanuele Crialese
2010 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Essential Killing
Jerzy Skolimowski
2009 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Soul Kitchen
Fatih Akin
2008 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Teza
Haile Gerima
2007 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
I’m Not There
Todd Haynes
2007 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Secret of the Grain
Abdellatif Kechiche
2006 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Dry Season
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
2005 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Mary
Abel Ferrara
2004 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Sea Inside
Alejandro Amenábar
2003 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Kite
Randa Chahal Sabag
2002 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
House of Fools
Andrey Konchalovskiy
2001 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Dog Days
Ulrich Seidl
2000 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Before Night Falls
Julian Schnabel
1999 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Wind Will Carry Us
Abbas Kiarostami
1998 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Next Stop Paradise
Lucian Pintilie
1997 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Hardboiled Egg
Paolo Virzì
1996 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Brigands-Chapter VII
Otar Iosseliani
1995 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
God’s Comedy
João César Monteiro
1995 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Star Maker
Giuseppe Tornatore
1994 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Natural Born Killers
Oliver Stone
1993 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Bad Boy Bubby
Rolf de Heer
1992 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
Mario Martone
1991 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
A Divina Comédia
Manoel de Oliveira
1990 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
An Angel at My Table
Jane Campion
1989 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
And Then There Was Light
Otar Iosseliani
1988 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Camp de Thiaroye
Ousmane Sembene
1987 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Hip Hip Hurrah!
Kjell Grede
1986 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
A Tale of Love
Francesco Maselli
1986 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Wild Pigeon
Sergey Solovev
1986 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
X
Oddvar Einarson
1985 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Fernando E. Solanas
1985 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Lightship
Jerzy Skolimowski
1984 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Favourites of the Moon
Otar Iosseliani
1983 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Biquefarre
Georges Rouquier
1982 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Imperative
Krzysztof Zanussi
1981 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Sweet Dreams
Nanni Moretti
1981 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
They Don’t Wear Black Tie
Leon Hirszman
1980 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Alexander the Great
Theodoros Angelopoulos
1968 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Le Socrate
Robert Lapoujade
1968 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Our Lady of the Turks
Carmelo Bene
1967 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
China Is Near
Marco Bellocchio
1967 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
La chinoise
Jean-Luc Godard
1966 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Chappaqua
Conrad Rooks
1966 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Yesterday Girl
Alexander Kluge
1965 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
I Am Twenty
Marlen Khutsiev
1965 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Simon of the Desert
Luis Buñuel
1964 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Hamlet
Grigoriy Kozintsev
1964 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Pier Paolo Pasolini
1963 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Fire Within
Louis Malle
1963 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Vstuplenie
Igor Talankin
1962 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Vivre Sa Vie
Jean-Luc Godard
1961 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Mir vkhodyashchemu
Aleksandr Alov
1960 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Rocco and His Brothers
Luchino Visconti
1959 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Magician
Ingmar Bergman
1958 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
La sfida
Francesco Rosi
1958 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Lovers
Louis Malle
1954 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Executive Suite
Mary Adams
1952 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Crash of Silence
Alexander Mackendrick
1952 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Paul Grimault
1951 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan
1950 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
