Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)

The Special Jury Prize is an award given at the Venice Film Festival. It is awarded to one or two films per year and is considered less prestigious than the main award, the Golden Lion.

Awards

• 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire by Elia Kazan
• 1952 Mandy by Alexander Mackendrick
• 1953 – No awards
• 1954 Special award to the best ensemble acting for the entire cast of Executive Suite: William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon & Shelley Winters
• 1955-57 – No awards
• 1958 The Lovers by Louis Malle and La sfida by Francesco Rosi
• 1959 The Magician by Ingmar Bergman
• 1960 Rocco and His Brothers by Luchino Visconti
• 1961 Peace to Him Who Enters by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov
• 1962 Vivre sa vie by Jean-Luc Godard
• 1963 The Fire Within by Louis Malle and Introduction to Life by Igor Talankin
• 1964 The Gospel According to St. Matthew by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Hamlet by Grigori Kozintsev
• 1965 Simon of the Desert by Luis Buñuel, I Am Twenty by Marlen Khutsiev and Modiga Mindre Män by Leif Krantz
• 1966 Chappaqua by Conrad Rooks and Yesterday Girl by Alexander Kluge
• 1967 China is Near by Marco Bellocchio and La Chinoise by Jean-Luc Godard
• 1968 Our Lady of the Turks by Carmelo Bene and Le Socrate by Robert Lapoujade
• 1969-80 - No awards
• 1981 Sogni d'oro by Nanni Moretti and Eles não usam black tie by Leon Hirszman
• 1982 Imperativ by Krzysztof Zanussi
• 1983 Biguefarre by Georges Rouquier
• 1984 Le favoris de la lune by Otar Ioseliani
• 1985 Tangos. El exilio de Gardel by Fernando E. Solanas
• 1986 Cuzaja, belaja i rjaboj by Sergei Solov'ëv and Storia d'amore by Francesco Maselli
• 1987 Hip, Hip, Hurra! by Kjell Grede
• 1988 Camp de Thiaroye by Sembène Ousmane and Thierno Faty Sow
• 1989 Et la lumière fut by Otar Iosseliani
• 1990 An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion
• 1991 A Divina Comédia by Manoel de Oliveira
• 1992 Morte di un matematico napoletano by Mario Martone
• 1993 Bad Boy Bubby by Rolf De Heer
• 1994 Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone
• 1995 A Comédia de Deus by João César Monteiro and L'uomo delle Stelle by Giuseppe Tornatore
• 1996 Brigands by Otar Iosseliani
• 1997 Ovosodo by Paolo Virzì
• 1998 Terminus Parabys by Lucian Pintilie
• 1999 The Wind Will Carry Us by Abbas Kiarostami
• 2000 Before Night Falls by Julian Schnabel
• 2001 Dog Days by Ulrich Seidl
• 2002 House of Fools by Andrei Konchalovsky
• 2003 The Kite by Randa Chahal
• 2004 The Sea Inside by Alejandro Amenábar
• 2005 Mary by Abel Ferrara
• 2006 Daratt by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
• 2007 I'm Not There by Todd Haynes
• 2008 Teza by Haile Gerima
• 2009 Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akın
• 2010 Essential Killing by Jerzy Skolimowski
• 2011 Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese

External links

• The Venice Film Festival at the IMDb