Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica) takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido di Venezia in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, in Venice, Italy.

Its main award is the "Leone d'Oro" (Golden Lion). Recently, a new award has been added, the San Marco Award for the best film in the "controcorrente" section.

The Venice Film Festival is part of the "Biennale".

The Festival in 2003 will be the 60th.

Golden Lion winners

Year	Film	Director
2002	The Magdalene Sisters	Peter Mullan
2001	Monsoon Wedding	Mira Nair
2000	The Circle (Dayereh)	Jafar Panahi
1999	Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao)	Yimou Zhang
1998	The Way We Laughed (Così ridevano)	Gianni Amelio
1997	Hana-bi (Fireworks)	Takeshi Kitano
1996	Michael Collins	Neil Jordan
1995	Xich lo (Cyclo	Anh Hung Tran
1994	Aiqing wansui (Vive L'Amour)	Ming-Liang Tsai
1994	Pred dozhdot (Before The Rain)	Milcho Manchevski
1993	Short Cuts (USA)	Robert Altman
1993	Trois Couleurs: Bleu (Blue)	Krzysztof Kieslowski
1992	Qui Ju da guan si (The Story Of Qui Ju)	Zhang Yimou
1991	Urga (Close To Eden)	Nikita Mikhalhov
1990	Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead	Tom Stoppard
1989	Beiqing chengshi (A City of Sadness)	Hsiao-Hsien Hou
1988	La Leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend Of The Holy Drinker)	Ermano Olmi
1987	Au revoir les enfants	Louis Malle
1986	Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray)	Eric Rohmer
1985	Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond))	Agnès Varda