27th Venice International Film Festival

The 27th Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 10 September 1966.^[1]

Jury

• Giorgio Bassani (head of jury)^[2]
• Lindsay Anderson
• Luboš Bartošek
• Michel Butor
• Lewis Jacobs
• Lev Kuleshov
• Joris Ivens

Films in competition

• The Wild Angels by Roger Corman
• The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
• La Busca by Angelino Fons
• Yesterday Girl by Alexander Kluge
• Chappaqua by Conrad Rooks
• La Curée by Roger Vadim
• Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut
• Nattlek by Mai Zetterling
• The First Teacher by Andrey Konchalovskiy
• Un uomo a metà by Vittorio De Seta

Awards

• Golden Lion:
  • The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
• Special Jury Prize:
  • Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)
  • Chappaqua (Conrad Rooks)
• Volpi Cup:
  • Best Actor - Jacques Perrin - (Un uomo a metà)
  • Best Actress - Natalya Arinbasarova - (The First Teacher)
• FIPRESCI Prize
  • The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
• OCIC Award
  • Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
  • Honorable Mention - Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)
• Special Prize
  • The War Game (Peter Watkins)
  • Ha-Yeled Me'ever Lerechov (Yosef Shalhin)
• Lion of San Marco
  • Memorandum (Donald Brittain & John Spotton)
  • Testa di rapa (Hermína Týrlová & Giancarlo Zagni)^[3]
  • Best Film about Adolescence - Ritzar bez bronya (Borislav Sharaliev)
  • Best Documentary - Le mistral (Joris Ivens)
  • Best Documentary - Television - Storm Signal (Robert Drew)
• Lion of San Marco - Grand Prize
  • Hectorologie (Yves Plantin & Alain Blondel)
  • Rodzina czlowiecza (Wladyslaw Slesicki)
  • The Girl and the Bugler (Aleksandr Mitta)
• Plate 'Lion of San Marco'
  • The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work (Jules Engel)
  • Best Experimental Film - L'ultimo (Vittorio Armentano)
  • Best Sport Film - Hockey (Mica Milosevic)
  • Best Children's Film - The Kind-Hearted Ant (Aleksandar Marks & Vladimir Jutrisa)
  • Best Animated Film - Chromophobia (Raoul Servais)
  • Cultural and Educational Film - Comment savoir (Claude Jutra)
  • Film about Architecture - Helioplastika (Jaroslaw Brzozowski)
• Plate
  • The Animal Movie (Grant Munro & Ron Tunis)
  • Jemima and Johnny (Lionel Ngakane)
  • Physics and Chemistry of Water (Sarah Erulkar)
  • Ptaci kohaci (Jirí Torman)
  • Documentary - Contemporary Life/Social - Labanta negro (Piero Nelli)
  • Recreative Children's Film - Little Mole For episode Krtek a raketa (Zdeněk Miler)
  • Children's Film - Educative-Didactical - Alexander and a Car without the Left Headlight (Peter Fleischmann)
• Honorary Diploma
  • La fiaba di Tancredi (Velia Vergani)
  • Tribunal (Herbert Seggelke)
  • Willem de Kooning, the Painter (Paul Falkenberg & Hans Namuth)
• Jury Hommage
  • Robert Bresson
• Premio per la migliore interpretazione
  • Ritzar bez bronya (Oleg Kovachev)

References

External links

• 1966 Venice Film Festival at IMDB
• Venice Film Festival 1966
• Venice Film Festival 1966