Golden Lion (Best Film) Winners at the Venice Film Festival (1946-2008)*:
1946 Best Film The Southerner Country: U.S. Director: Jean Renoir
1947 Best Film Siréna Country: Czechoslovakia
1948 Best Film Hamlet Country: U.K. Director: Laurence Olivier
1949 Best Film Manon Country: France Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
1950 Best Film Let Justice Be Done Country: France Director: André Cayatte
1951 Best Film Rashômon Country: Japan Director: Akira Kurosawa
1952 Best Film Forbidden Games Country: France Director: René Clément
1954 Best Film Romeo and Juliet Country: Italy/U.K. Director: Renato Castellani
1955 Best Film Ordet Country: Denmark Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
1957 Best Film Aparajito Country: India Director: Satyajit Ray
1958 Best Film Rikisha-Man Country: Japan Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
1959 Best Film The Great War Country: Italy Director: Mario Monicelli
1959 Best Film General della Rovere Country: Italy Director: Roberto Rossellini
1960 Best Film The Crossing of the Rhine Country: Italy Director: André Cayatte
1961 Best Film Last Year at Marienbad Country: France Director: Alain Resnais
1962 Best Film My Name Is Ivan Country: U.S.S.R. Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1962 Best Film Family Diary Country: France/Italy Director: Valerio Zurlini
1963 Best Film Hands Over the City Country: Italy/France Director: Francesco
Rosi
1964 Best Film The Red Desert Country: Italy Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
1965 Best Film Sandra of a Thousand Delights Country: Italy Director: Luchino
Visconti
1966 Best Film The Battle of Algiers Country: Algeria Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
1967 Best Film Belle de Jour Country: France Director: Luis Buñuel
1968 Best Film Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless Country: West Germany Director:
Alexander Kluge
1980 Best Film Atlantic City Country: U.S. Director: Louis Malle
1980 Best Film Gloria Country: U.S. Director: John Cassavetes
1981 Best Film Marianne and Juliane Country: West Germany Director: Margarethe
von Trotta
1982 Best Film The State of Things Country: West Germany Director: Wim
Wenders
1983 Best Film First Name: Carmen Country: France Director: Jean-Luc Godard
1984 Best Film A Year of the Quiet Sun Country: Poland Director: Krzysztof
Zanussi
1985 Best Film Vagabond Country: France Director: Agnès Varda
1986 Best Film The Green Ray (Summer) Country: France Director: Eric Rohmer
1987 Best Film Au Revoir les Enfants Country: France Director: Louis Malle
1988 Best Film Legend of the Holy Drinker Country: Italy Director: Ermanno Olmi
1989 Best Film City of Sadness Country: Taiwan Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
1990 Best Film Rosencrantz Guildenstern Are Dead Country: U.K. Director: Tom
Stoppard
1991 Best Film Close to Eden Country: France/U.S.S.R. Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
1992 Best Film The Story of Qiu Ju Country: China Director: Zhang Yimou
1993 Best Film Short Cuts Country: U.S. Director: Robert Altman
1993 Best Film Three Colors: Blue Country: France Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
1994 Best Film Before the Rain Country: Macedonia Director: Milcho Manchevski
1994 Best Film Vive L'Amour Country: Taiwan Director: Ming-liang Tsai
1995 Best Film Cyclo Country: Vietnam Director: Tran Anh Hung
1996 Best Film Michael Collins Country: U.K. Director: Neil Jordan
1997 Best Film Fireworks Country: Japan Director: Takeshi Kitano
1998 Best Film The Way We Laughed Country: Italy Director: Gianni Amelio
1999 Best Film Not One Less Country: China Director: Yimou Zhang
2000 Best Film The Circle Country: Iran Director: Jafar Panahi
2001 Best Film Monsoon Wedding Country: India Director: Mira Nair
2002 Best Film The Magdalene Sisters Country: U.K. Director: Peter Mullan
2003 Best Film The Return Country: Russia Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
2004 Best Film Vera Drake Country: U.K. Director: Mike Leigh
2005 Best Film Brokeback Mountain Country: U.S. Director: Ang Lee
2006 Best Film Still Life Country China Director: Jia Zhangke
2007 Best Film Lust, Passion Country Taiwan Director: Ang Lee
2008 Best Film The Wrestler Country U.S. Director: Darren Anorofsky
*I think I started with 1946 because they were using the festival and its "Mussolini Award" for propaganda, so I responded to that with my own censorship and began with the post-Mussolini reign.
