1996 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Winner and Nominees

Michael Collins

Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan’s historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.

Basquiat

Julian Schnabel

Box of Moonlight

Tom DiCillo

Brigands-Chapter VII

Otar Iosseliani

Buddha Bless America

Nien-Jen Wu

Carla’s Song

Ken Loach

Deep Crimson

Arturo Ripstein

For Ever Mozart

Jean-Luc Godard

Hommes, femmes, mode d’emploi

Claude Lelouch

Ilona llega con la lluvia

Sergio Cabrera

Party

Manoel de Oliveira

Ponette

Jacques Doillon

Sacred Silence

Antonio Capuano

The Funeral

Abel Ferrara

The Ogre

Volker Schlöndorff

Vesna Goes Fast

Carlo Mazzacurati