67th Venice International Film Festival
The 67th annual Venice International Film Festival held in Venice, Italy, took place from 1 to 11 September 2010. American film director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino was the head of the Jury. The opening film of the festival was Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, and the closing film was Julie Taymor's The Tempest. John Woo was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement prior to the start of the Festival.

The Golden Lion was awarded to Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola. The Silver Lion Award for Best Director was given to Álex de la Iglesia, for A Sad Trumpet Ballad.

In a break with tradition of limiting a film to receiving no more than one major award, the Special Jury Prize and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (Vincent Gallo) went to the same film, Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing. In the past, no one film had been given two major awards. Representing the jury, American director Quentin Tarantino appealed to Festival head Marco Müller to alter the rules. This rule change continues to be upheld for future editions of the Festival.

Following the Festival, Italian film critic Paolo Mereghetti criticized the decisions that the jury made in awarding prizes, and singled out Tarantino, accusing him of favoritism. He denied the charge.

Juries
The international juries of the 67th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:

Main Competition (Venezia 67) 
 Quentin Tarantino, American filmmaker and actor - Jury President
 Guillermo Arriaga, Mexican filmmaker and producer
 Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Lithuanian actress
 Arnaud Desplechin, French filmmaker
 Danny Elfman, American composer, singer, songwriter and record producer
 Luca Guadagnino, Italian filmmaker
 Gabriele Salvatores, Italian filmmaker

Horizons (Orizzonti) 
 Shirin Neshat, Iranian visual artist - Jury President 
 Raja Amari, Tunisian director and script writer
 Lav Diaz, Filipino filmmaker
 Alexander Horwath, director of the Austrian Film Museum, former director of Viennale
 Pietro Marcello, Italian filmmaker

Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film) 
 Fatih Akin, German filmmaker and producer - Jury President
 Nina Lath Gupta, Indian official of National Film Development Corporation of India
 Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong director and producer
 Samuel Maoz, Israeli director
 Jasmine Trinca, Italian actress

Controcampo Italiano 
 Valerio Mastandrea, Italian actor - Jury President
 Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italian filmmaker and actress
 Dario Edoardo Viganò, Director of Vatican Television Center

Persol 3-D 
 Shimizu Takashi, Japanese filmmaker - Jury President
 Jim Hoberman, American film critic and academic
 David Zamagni, Italian filmmaker

Official Sections

In Competition
The Golden Lion was won by Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola, a film based in part on Coppola's childhood as the daughter of acclaimed American director Francis Ford Coppola. Quentin Tarantino, the president of the jury that awarded the prize, hailed the film saying, "it grew and grew in our hearts, in our minds, in our affections". The jury's decision was unanimous. Upon receiving the award, Coppola paid credit to her father for "teaching me". The Russian film Silent Souls and the Chilean film Post Mortem had been considered favorites for the award.

The following films competed for the award:

Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.

Out of Competition
The following films were shown out of competition.

Horizons (Orizzonti) 
From 2010 on, this section, dedicated to new trends in world cinema, has opened itself to all "extra-format" works, while four new awards have been established for it.

Highlighted title indicates the Orizzontis Awards for Feature Film and Short Film winners.

Controcampo Italiano
The following films, representing "new trends in Italian cinema", were screened in this section:

Highlighted title indicates the Controcampo Italiano Prize winner.

Italian Retrospective
The following films were shown as part of a retrospective section on Italian comedy, titled The State of Things, spanning the years 1937 to 1988.

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following films were selected for the 25th International Film Critics' Week:

Venice Days
The following films were selected for the 7th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:

Official Awards
Starting with the 67th edition of the festival, four new awards were established for the Orizzonti section: the Orizzonti Award (for feature films), the Special Jury Orizzonti Prize (for feature films), the Orizzonti Award for Short Experimental Films and the Orizzonti Award for Short/Medium-length Films. The following Official selection awards were conferred at the festival:

In Competition (Venezia 67) 
Golden Lion: Somewhere by Sofia Coppola
Silver Lion for Best Director: Álex de la Iglesia for The Last Circus
Special Jury Prize: Essential Killing by Jerzy Skolimowski
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Vincent Gallo for Essential Killing
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Ariane Labed for Attenberg
Marcello Mastroianni Award: Mila Kunis for Black Swan
Golden Osella for Best Cinematography: Mikhail Krichman for Silent Souls
Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: Álex de la Iglesia for The Last Circus
 Special Lion: Monte Hellman

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 

 John Woo

Horizons (Orizzonti) 
 Orizzonti Award: Verano de Goliat by Nicolás Pereda
 Special Jury Orizzonti Prize: The Forgotten Space by Noël Burch and Allan Sekula
 Orizzonti Award for Short Experimental Films: Coming Attractions by Peter Tcherkassky
 Orizzonti Award for Short/Medium-length Films: Tse (Out) by Roee Rosen
 Special Mention: Jean Gentil by Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas
 Venice Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards: The External World by David Oreilly

Controcampo Italiano 
 Best Film: 20 Cigarettes by Aureliano Amadei
 Special Mention: Vinicio Marchioni for his role in 20 Cigarettes

Luigi de Laurentis Award for a Debut Film 

 Majority by Seren Yüce

Special Awards 
 Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award: Mani Ratnam
 Persol 3-D Award for Best Stereoscopic Film: Avatar by James Cameron
 L’Oréal Paris for the Cinema Award: Vittoria Puccini

Independent Sections Awards 
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:

Venice International Film Critics' Week 
 "Region of Veneto for quality cinema" Award: Beyond by Pernilla August
 Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award: Beyond by Pernilla August

Venice Days (Giornati degli Autori) 
 Label Europa Cinemas Award: The Clink of Ice by Bertrand Blier
 Special Mention: Incendies by Denis Villeneuve
 Biografilm Lancia Award: Incendies by Denis Villeneuve
 Lanterna Magica Award (Cgs): Dark Love by Antonio Capuano
 FEDIC Award: Dark Love by Antonio Capuano
 Special Mention: Afraid of the Dark by Massimo Coppola
 AIF Forfilmfest Award: Dark Love by Antonio Capuano
 Gianni Astrei Award: Dark Love by Antonio Capuano
 Cinema.Doc - Venice Days Selection: Il Sangue verde by Andrea Segre

Independent Awards 
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:

FIPRESCI Award 
 Best Film (Main competition): Silent Souls by Aleksei Fedorchenko
 Best Film (Horizons): El sicario Room 164 by Gianfranco Rosi

Queer Lion 
 In the Future by Mauro Andrizzi

SIGNIS Award 
 Meek's Cutoff by Kelly Reichardt
 Special Mention: Silent Souls by Aleksei Fedorchenko

Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI) 
 Best Film: 20 Cigarettes by Aureliano Amadei
 Best Actress: Alba Rohrwacher for The Solitude of Prime Numbers

CICAE Award 
 Sleeping Beauty by Catherine Breillat

Leoncino d'oro Agiscuola Award 
 Barney’s Version by Richard J. Lewis

Cinema for UNICEF Commendation 

 Miral by Julian Schnabel

La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award 
 The Ditch by Wang Bing

C.I.C.T. UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award 
 Miral by Julian Schnabel

Biografilm Lancia Award 
 I'm Still Here by Casey Affleck
 A Letter to Elia by Martin Scorsese & Kent Jones
 Surviving Life by Jan Švankmajer
 20 Cigarettes by Aureliano Amadei
 El Sicario - Room 164 by Gianfranco Rosi

Nazareno Taddei Award 
 Silent Souls by Aleksei Fedorchenko

CinemAvvenire Award 
 Essential Killing by Jerzy Skolimowski

CinemAvvenire "Il cerchio non è rotondo" Award 
 Cirkus Columbia by Danis Tanović

Equal Opportunity Award 
 Black Venus by Abdellatif Kechiche

Future Film Festival Digital Award 
 Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame by Tsui Hark
 Special Mention: Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City & 13 Assassins by Miike Takashi

Brian Award 
 Lost Kisses by Roberta Torre

Arca Cinemagiovani Award 
 The Last Circus by Álex de la Iglesia

Roberto Bognanno Prize 
 Potiche by François Ozon

Lina Mangiacapre Award 
 Attenberg by Athina Rachel Tsangari
 Special Mention: Jafar Panahi for The Accordion (short)

UK - Italy Creative Industries Award – Best Innovative Budget 
 Tajabone by Salvatore Mereu

Fondazione Mimmo Rotella 
 La pecora nera by Ascanio Celestini

Premio Selezione Cinema.Doc - Official Selection 
 El sicario room 164 by Gianfranco Rosi

Golden Mouse 
 Silent Souls by Aleksei Fedorchenko

Silver Mouse 
 Incendies by Denis Villeneuve

References

External links

Venice Film Festival 2010 Awards on IMDb

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