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2019 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Joker Todd Phillips](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/joker-todd-phillips-image.jpg)
Joker
Todd Phillips
2018 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Roma Alfonso Cuarón](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/roma-image.jpg)
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2017 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-shape-of-water-guillermo-del-toro-image.jpg)
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
2016 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Woman Who Left Lav Diaz](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-woman-who-left-lav-diaz-image.jpg)
The Woman Who Left
Lav Diaz
2015 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![From Afar Lorenzo Vigas](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/from-afar-lorenzo-vigas-image.jpg)
From Afar
Lorenzo Vigas
2014 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Roy Andersson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-pigeon-sat-on-a-branch-reflecting-on-existence-roy-andersson-image.jpg)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Roy Andersson
2013 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Sacro GRA Gianfranco Rosi](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sacro-gra-gianfranco-rosi-image.jpg)
Sacro GRA
Gianfranco Rosi
2012 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Pieta Ki-duk Kim](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pieta-ki-duk-kim-image.jpg)
Pieta
Ki-duk Kim
2011 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Faust Aleksandr Sokurov](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/faust-image.jpg)
Faust
Aleksandr Sokurov
2010 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Somewhere Sofia Coppola](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/somewhere-sofia-coppola-image.jpg)
Somewhere
Sofia Coppola
2009 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Lebanon Samuel Maoz](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lebanon-samuel-maoz-image.jpg)
Lebanon
Samuel Maoz
2008 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Wrestler Darren Aronofsky](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-wrestler-darren-aronofsky-image.jpg)
The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky
2007 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Lust, Caution Ang Lee](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lust-caution-image.jpg)
Lust, Caution
Ang Lee
2006 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Still Life Zhangke Jia](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/still-life-zhangke-jia-image.jpg)
Still Life
Zhangke Jia
2005 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/brokeback-mountain-image.jpg)
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2004 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Vera Drake Mike Leigh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/vera-drake-mike-leigh-image.jpg)
Vera Drake
Mike Leigh
2003 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Return Andrey Zvyagintsev](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-return-image.jpg)
The Return
Andrey Zvyagintsev
2002 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Magdalene Sisters Peter Mullan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-magdalene-sisters-peter-mullan-image.jpg)
The Magdalene Sisters
Peter Mullan
2001 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Monsoon Wedding Mira Nair](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/monsoon-wedding-mira-nair-image.jpg)
Monsoon Wedding
Mira Nair
2000 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Circle Jafar Panahi](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-circle-jafar-panahi-image.jpg)
The Circle
Jafar Panahi
1999 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Not One Less Yimou Zhang](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/not-one-less-yimou-zhang-image.jpg)
Not One Less
Yimou Zhang
1998 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Così ridevano Gianni Amelio](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cosi-ridevano-gianni-amelio-image.jpg)
Così ridevano
Gianni Amelio
1997 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Fireworks Takeshi Kitano](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fireworks-takeshi-kitano-image.jpg)
Fireworks
Takeshi Kitano
1996 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Michael Collins Neil Jordan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/michael-collins-neil-jordan-image.jpg)
Michael Collins
Neil Jordan
1995 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Cyclo Anh Hung Tran](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cyclo-anh-hung-tran-image.jpg)
Cyclo
Anh Hung Tran
1994 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Before the Rain Milcho Manchevski](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/before-the-rain-milcho-manchevski-image.jpg)
Before the Rain
Milcho Manchevski
1994 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Vive L'Amour Ming-liang Tsai](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/vive-lamour-ming-liang-tsai-image.jpg)
Vive L’Amour
Ming-liang Tsai
1993 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Short Cuts Robert Altman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/short-cuts-robert-altman-image.jpg)
Short Cuts
Robert Altman
1993 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Three Colors: Blue Krzysztof Kieslowski](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/three-colors-blue-krzysztof-kieslowski-image.jpg)
Three Colors: Blue
Krzysztof Kieslowski
1992 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Story of Qiu Ju Yimou Zhang](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-story-of-qiu-ju-yimou-zhang-image.jpg)
The Story of Qiu Ju
Yimou Zhang
1991 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Close to Eden Nikita Mikhalkov](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/close-to-eden-nikita-mikhalkov-image.jpg)
Close to Eden
Nikita Mikhalkov
1990 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead-tom-stoppard-image.jpg)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
1989 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![A City of Sadness Hsiao-Hsien Hou](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-city-of-sadness-hsiao-hsien-hou-image.jpg)
A City of Sadness
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
1988 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Legend of the Holy Drinker Ermanno Olmi](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-legend-of-the-holy-drinker-ermanno-olmi-image.jpg)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Ermanno Olmi
1987 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Au revoir les enfants Louis Malle](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/au-revoir-les-enfants-louis-malle-image.jpg)
Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle
1986 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Summer Éric Rohmer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/summer-eric-rohmer-image.jpg)
Summer
Éric Rohmer
1985 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Vagabond Agnès Varda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/vagabond-image.jpg)
Vagabond
Agnès Varda
1984 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![A Year of the Quiet Sun Krzysztof Zanussi](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-year-of-the-quiet-sun-krzysztof-zanussi-image.jpg)
A Year of the Quiet Sun
Krzysztof Zanussi
1983 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![First Name: Carmen Jean-Luc Godard](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/first-name-carmen-jean-luc-godard-image.jpg)
First Name: Carmen
Jean-Luc Godard
1982 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The State of Things Wim Wenders](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-state-of-things-wim-wenders-image.jpg)
The State of Things
Wim Wenders
1981 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Marianne & Juliane Margarethe von Trotta](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/marianne-and-juliane-margarethe-von-trotta-image.jpg)
Marianne & Juliane
Margarethe von Trotta
1980 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Atlantic City Louis Malle](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/atlantic-city-louis-malle-image.jpg)
Atlantic City
Louis Malle
1980 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Gloria John Cassavetes](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gloria-john-cassavetes-image.jpg)
Gloria
John Cassavetes
1968 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless Alexander Kluge](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-artist-in-the-circus-dome-clueless-alexander-kluge-image.jpg)
The Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless
Alexander Kluge
1967 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Belle de jour Luis Buñuel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/belle-de-jour-luis-buñuel-image.jpg)
Belle de jour
Luis Buñuel
1966 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-battle-of-algiers-gillo-pontecorvo-image.jpg)
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
1965 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Sandra Luchino Visconti](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sandra-luchino-visconti-image.jpg)
Sandra
Luchino Visconti
1964 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/red-desert-michelangelo-antonioni-image.jpg)
Red Desert
Michelangelo Antonioni
1963 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Hands Over the City Francesco Rosi](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hands-over-the-city-francesco-rosi-image.jpg)
Hands Over the City
Francesco Rosi
1962 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Family Portrait Valerio Zurlini](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/family-portrait-valerio-zurlini-image.jpg)
Family Portrait
Valerio Zurlini
1962 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Ivan's Childhood Andrei Tarkovsky](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ivans-childhood-andrei-tarkovsky-eduard-abalov-image.jpg)
Ivan’s Childhood
Andrei Tarkovsky
1961 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Last Year at Marienbad Alain Resnais](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/last-year-at-marienbad-image.jpg)
Last Year at Marienbad
Alain Resnais
1960 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Tomorrow Is My Turn André Cayatte](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/tomorrow-is-my-turn-andre-cayatte-image.jpg)
Tomorrow Is My Turn
André Cayatte
1959 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Il generale Della Rovere Roberto Rossellini](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/il-generale-della-rovere-roberto-rossellini-image.jpg)
Il generale Della Rovere
Roberto Rossellini
1959 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Great War Mario Monicelli](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-great-war-mario-monicelli-image.jpg)
The Great War
Mario Monicelli
1958 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![The Rickshaw Man Hiroshi Inagaki](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-rickshaw-man-hiroshi-inagaki-image.jpg)
The Rickshaw Man
Hiroshi Inagaki
1957 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Aparajito Satyajit Ray](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/aparajito-satyajit-ray-image.jpg)
Aparajito
Satyajit Ray
1955 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Ordet Carl Theodor Dreyer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ordet-carl-theodor-dreyer-image.jpg)
Ordet
Carl Theodor Dreyer
1954 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Romeo and Juliet Renato Castellani](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/romeo-and-juliet-renato-castellani-image.jpg)
Romeo and Juliet
Renato Castellani
1952 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Forbidden Games René Clément](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/forbidden-games-rene-clement-image.jpg)
Forbidden Games
René Clément
1951 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Rashomon Akira Kurosawa](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/rashomon-image.jpg)
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa
1950 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Justice Is Done André Cayatte](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/justice-is-done-image.jpg)
Justice Is Done
André Cayatte
1949 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film
![Manon Henri-Georges Clouzot](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/manon-henri-georges-clouzot-image.jpg)