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The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Venice. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Five" International film festivals
Venice Cinema Palace on Lido island in 2018
The Doge's Palace in Piazza San Marco hosted the 1947 festival.
The Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and Pier Paolo Pasolini together in Venice at the premiere of the movie The Gospel According to St. Matthew in 1964
Todd Phillips with the Golden Lion won by his film Joker at the 2019 edition
Golden Lion
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The Golden Lion is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee, as the successor to the earlier Gran Premio Internaziona
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…festival returned to the non-competitiveness of the first edition due to the Years of Lead. In 1973, 1977 and 1978, the festival was not even held. The Golden Lion did not make its return until 1980. The long-awaited rebirth came in 1979, thanks to the new director Carlo Lizzani (1979–1983), who decided to restore…
A Golden Lion trophy
Roberto Rossellini and Mario Monicelli winning the Golden Lion in 1959 for General Della Rovere and The Great War, respectively
Akira Kurosawa won for Rashomon (1950)
Carl Theodor Dreyer won for Ordet (1955)