Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion winners | Award Season

Every film awarded the Golden Lion, the top prize at Venice and the oldest award in film festival history.

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• Nomadland
• Before the Rain
• The Battle of Algiers
• Pieta
• The Circle
• Rashomon
• Still Life
• The Story of Qiu Ju
• The Room Next Door
• Vera Drake
• Short Cuts
• Ordet
• Fireworks
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
• Vive L'Amour
• Sandra
• Happening
• Monsoon Wedding
• Political Animals
• The Shape of Water
• From Afar
• Michael Collins
• Close to Eden
• Hands Over the City
• Joker
• Romeo And Juliet
• A Year of the Quiet Sun
• The State of Things
• Belle de Jour
• Manon
• Somewhere
• Roma
• Justice Is Done
• The Magdalene Sisters
• Des
• Marianne and Juliane
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
• The Great War
• Tomorrow Is My Turn
• Sacro GRA
• Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
• The Woman Who Left
• The Way We Laughed
• Woman Unknown
• The Wrestler
• Cyclo
• A City of Sadness
• Ivan's Childhood
• Gloria
• General Della Rovere
• Family Diary
• Faust
• Lebanon
• Aparajito
• Vagabond
• The Legend of the Holy Drinker
• Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children)
• Father Mother Sister Brother
• Not One Less
• Forbidden Games
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• First Name: Carmen
• The Return
• Lust, Caution
• Poor Things
• Brokeback Mountain
• Atlantic City
• The Green Ray
• Last Year at Marienbad
• Three Colors: Blue