2008 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Winner and Nominees

The Wrestler

Darren Aronofsky

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

A Perfect Day

Ferzan Ozpetek

Achilles and the Tortoise

Takeshi Kitano

Birdwatchers

Marco Bechis

Gabbla

Tariq Teguia

Giovanna’s Father

Pupi Avati

Il seme della discordia

Pappi Corsicato

Inju: The Beast in the Shadow

Barbet Schroeder

Jerichow

Christian Petzold

Milk

Semih Kaplanoglu

Paper Soldier

Aleksey German Jr.

Plastic City

Nelson Lik-wai Yu

Ponyo

Hayao Miyazaki

Rachel Getting Married

Jonathan Demme

Teza

Haile Gerima

The Burning Plain

Guillermo Arriaga

The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow

The Other One

Patrick-Mario Bernard

The Sky Crawlers

Mamoru Oshii

This Night

Werner Schroeter

Vegas: Based on a True Story

Amir Naderi