The Juries
The Venice Film Festival gives out numerous awards each year such as the "Golden Lion", the "Volpi Cup", the "Grand Jury Award ? Golden Lion", the "Special Award for Direction ? Golden Lion", and the "San Marco Award". Another acknowledgement given during the festival is the "Marcello Mastroianni Award" for first-time actors and actresses which rivals, in a sense, the "Volpi Cup".
Until 1996, Jury members served over successive years. Now juries are created for each new edition of the festival.
The jury’s most important task is to assign the highest award, the Golden Lion for Best Film, while other top awards, such as the Career Golden Lion are decided collectively by members of the juries under the direction of the Venice Biennial.
Juries for the 1930's
In 1932 the festival is not competitive.
In 1934 the festival is competitive but does not have an international jury.
1935: Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata (chairperson, Italy), Charles Delac (France), Ryszard Ordynski (Poland), Fritz...
Juries for the 1940's
From 1940 to 1942 the festival was not held in Venice. Acknowledged as "did not take place".
From 1943 to 1945 the festival was suspended because of the war.
1946: International commission of journalists (substitute for the...
Juries for the 1950's
1950: Mario Gromo (chairperson, Italy), Umbro Apollonio (Italy), Antonio Baldini (Italy), Ermanno Contini (Italy), Piero Gadda Conti (Italy), Arturo Lanocita (Italy), Gian Luigi Rondi (Italy), Turi Vasile (Italy), Adone Zecchi...
Juries for the 1960's
1960: Marcel Achard (chairperson, France), Peter Baker (Great Britain), Luis Garcia Berlanga (Spain), Sergej Bondarcuk (USSR), Louis Chauvet (France), Antonio Pagliaro (Italy), Jaime Potenze (Argentina), Mario Praz (Italy), Samuel Steinman...
Juries for the 1970's
From 1970 to 1979 the festival is not competitive.
Juries for the 1980's
1980: Suso Cecchi D'Amico (chairperson, Italy), Yûssif Châhine (Egitto), Marlen Chuciev (USSR), Michel Ciment (France), Umberto Eco (Italy), Gillo Pontecorvo (Italy), Andrew Sarris (USA), George Stevens, Jr. (USA), Margarethe von Trotta...
Juries for the 1990's
1990: Gore Vidal (chairperson, USA), María Luisa Bemberg (Argentina), Edoardo Bruno (Spain), Alberto Lattuada (Italy), Gilles Jacob (France), Kira Muratova (Russia), Omar Sharif (Egypt), Ula Stöckl (Germany), Anna-Lena Wibom...
Juries for the 2000's
2000: Milo? Forman (chairperson, Czech Republic), Giuseppe Bertolucci (Italy), Claude Chabrol (France), Jennifer Jason Leigh (USA), Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Andreas Kilb (Germany), Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran).
Short Films Jury:...
Juries for the 2010's
2010: Quentin Tarantino (presidente, Stati Uniti), Guillermo Arriaga (Messico), Ingeborga Dapk?nait? (Lituania), Arnaud Desplechin (Francia), Danny Elfman (Stati Uniti), Luca Guadagnino (Italia), Gabriele Salvatores (Italia)Orizzonti: Shirin Neshat...
