Thursday, December 5

Venice – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!

2019 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

You Will Die at 20 Amjad Abu Alala

You Will Die at 20

Amjad Abu Alala

2018 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

The Day I Lost My Shadow Soudade Kaadan

The Day I Lost My Shadow

Soudade Kaadan

2017 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Custody Xavier Legrand

Custody

Xavier Legrand

2016 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

The Last of Us Ala Eddine Slim

The Last of Us

Ala Eddine Slim

2015 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

The Childhood of a Leader Brady Corbet

The Childhood of a Leader

Brady Corbet

2014 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Court Chaitanya Tamhane

Court

Chaitanya Tamhane

2013 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

White Shadow Noaz Deshe

White Shadow

Noaz Deshe

2012 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Küf Ali Aydin

Küf

Ali Aydin

2011 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Là-bas: A Criminal Education Guido Lombardi

Là-bas: A Criminal Education

Guido Lombardi

2010 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Majority Seren Yüce

Majority

Seren Yüce

2009 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Clash Pepe Diokno

Clash

Pepe Diokno

2008 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Mid-August Lunch Gianni Di Gregorio

Mid-August Lunch

Gianni Di Gregorio

2007 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

The Zone Rodrigo Plá

The Zone

Rodrigo Plá

2006 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Khadak Peter Brosens

Khadak

Peter Brosens

2005 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

13 Tzameti Géla Babluani

13 Tzameti

Géla Babluani

2004 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

The Great Journey Ismaël Ferroukhi

The Great Journey

Ismaël Ferroukhi

2003 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

The Return Andrey Zvyagintsev

The Return

Andrey Zvyagintsev

2002 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Roger Dodger Dylan Kidd

Roger Dodger

Dylan Kidd

2002 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Two Friends Spiro Scimone

Two Friends

Spiro Scimone

2001 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Bread and Milk Jan Cvitkovic

Bread and Milk

Jan Cvitkovic

2000 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Poetical Refugee Abdellatif Kechiche

Poetical Refugee

Abdellatif Kechiche

1999 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Questo è il giardino Giovanni Davide Maderna

Questo è il giardino

Giovanni Davide Maderna

1997 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Tano da morire Roberta Torre

Tano da morire

Roberta Torre

1996 Venice Film Festival – Luigi De Laurentiis Award

Chronicle of a Disappearance Elia Suleiman

Chronicle of a Disappearance

Elia Suleiman