Venice Competition

Reference

7th (1946):

8th (1947):

1. Enamorada (Emilio Fernández)

9th (1948):

10th (1949):

11th (1950):

1. La Ronde (Max Ophüls)
2. Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)

12th (1951):

1. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
2. Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira)
3. Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi & Hamilton Luske & Wilfred Jackson)

13th (1952):

1. The Quiet Man (John Ford)
2. Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)

14th (1953):

1. The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg)
2. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji)

15th (1954):

1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
2. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi Kenji)
3. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)

16th (1955):

1. To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)

17th (1956):

1. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa Kon)

18th (1957):

1. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa Akira)
2. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)

19th (1958):

20th (1959):

1. Enjo (Ichikawa Kon)

21st (1960):

1. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi Masaki)

22nd (1961):

1. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
2. Yojimbo (Kuroswa Akira)

23rd (1962):

1. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)

24th (1963):

1. Muriel, or the Time of Return)
2. High and Low (Kurosawa Akira)
3. The Servant (Joseph Losey)
4. The Cool World (Shirley Clarke)
5. Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi)

25th (1964):

1. The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
2. A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
4. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
5. Life Upside Down (Alain Jessua)
6. King & Country (Joseph Losey)

26th (1965):

1. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
3. Red Beard (Kurosawa Akira)
4. Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman)
5. Mickey One (Arthur Penn)
6. Sandra (Luchino Visconti)

27th (1966):

1. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
2. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
3. Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)
4. Les Créatures (Agnès Varda)
5. Almost a Man (Vittorio De Seta)

28th (1967):

1. Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel)
2. La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)

29th (1968):

1. Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène)
2. Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Alexander Kluge)
3. Faces (John Cassavetes)

37th (1980):

1. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)

38th (1981):

39th (1982):

40th (1983):

41st (1984):

42nd (1985):

43rd (1986):

1. The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer)
2. Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier)

44th (1987):

1. Maurice (James Ivory)

45th (1988):

46th (1989):

1. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

47th (1990):

1. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
2. No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis)

48th (1991):

1. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)

49th (1992):

1. Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
2. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)

50th (1993):

1. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

51st (1994):

1. Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
2. In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang Wen)
3. Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)

52nd (1995):

1. La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)

53rd (1996):

54th (1997):

55th (1998):

1. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)

56th (1999):

57th (2000):

1. Platform (Jia Zhangke)
2. Durian Durian (Fruit Chan)

58th (2001):

1. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)

59th (2002):

1. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)

60th (2003):

1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. Zatoichi (Kitano Takeshi)

61st (2004):

1. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. The World (Jia Zhangke)
3. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
4. L'Intrus (Wim Wenders)

62nd (2005):

1. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
2. Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)

63rd (2006):

1. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
3. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
4. Exiled (Johnnie To)
5. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
6. The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)

64th (2007):

1. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
2. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
3. Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
4. Redacted (Brian De Palma)

65th (2008):

1. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)

66th (2009):

1. Accident (Soi Cheang)
2. White Material (Claire Denis)

67th (2010):

1. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)

68th (2011):

1. Life Without Principle (Johnnie To)
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)

69th (2012):

1. Passion (Brian De Palma)
2. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
3. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)

70th (2013):

1. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. The Wind Rises (Miyazaki Hayao)
3. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
4. Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)

71st (2014):

1. Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorence) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)

72nd (2015):

1. A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
2. Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)
3. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)
4. Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
5. The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)

73rd (2016):

1. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
2. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
3. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
4. Jackie (Pablo Larraín)

74th (2017):

1. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
2. Downsizing (Alexander Pande)
3. Ex Libris—The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
5. The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
6. mother! (Darren Aronofsky)

75th (2018):

1. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2. Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
3. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
4. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
5. Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
6. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
7. First Man (Damien Chazelle)
8. Sunset (Nemes László)

76th (2019):

1. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
2. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
3. Ad Astra (James Gray)
4. Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
5. Ema (Pablo Larraín)
6. Joker (Todd Phillips)

77th (2020):

1. Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
2. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
3. Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)
4. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)

78th (2021):

1. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
2. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
3. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
4. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
5. Happening (Audrey Diwan)
6. Spencer (Pablo Larraín)

79th (2022):

1. TÁR (Todd Field)
2. White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
3. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
5. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
6. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
7. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
8. Athena (Romain Gavras)
9. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
10. The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)

80th (2023):

1. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
2. Ferrari (Michael Mann)
3. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
4. The Killer (David Fincher)
5. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
6. Maestro (Bradley Cooper)