Venice Film Festival Awards - 2004
September 11th, 2004 by Andre Soares
61st Venice Film Festival Awards - 2004 Golden Lion
The 2004 Venice Film Festival will be held between Sept. 1-11, 2004.
The 2004 Venice Film Festival winners were announced on Sept. 11, 2004.
Golden Lion for Best Picture: Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, United Kingdom)
Jury Grand Prix: Mar adentro / The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar, Spain)
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Bin-jip / 3-Iron (South Korea)
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Javier Bardem, Mar adentro / The Sea Inside
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Young Actor: Tommaso Ramenghi and Marco Luisi, Lavorare con lentezza / Working Slowly
Career Golden Lion: Manoel de Oliveira and Stanley Donen
Silver Lion for Best Short Film: Signe d’appartenance, Kamel Cherif
Special Mention Best Short Film: The Carpenter and His Clumsy Wife, Peter Foott
Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Best First Film: Le Grand voyage, Ismaël Ferroukhi (director); Humbert Balsan (producer)
Luigi De Laurentiis Award - Special Mention: Saimir, Francesco Munzi
Golden Osella: Hauru no ugoku shiro, Studio Ghibli
Marcello Mastroianni Award: Raja, Najat Benssallem
Venice Horizons Award: Les Petits fils, Ilan Duran Cohen
Venice Horizons Award - Special Mention: Vento di terra, Vincenzo Marra
Digital Cinema Award: 20 Fingers, Mania Akbari
Digital Cinema Award - Special Mention: La Vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima, Lucio Pellegrini, Gianni Zanasi
Laterna Magica: Marc Forster for Finding Neverland
UIP Venice Award (European Short Film): Goodbye, Steve Hudson
FIPRESCI Prize Competition: Bin-jip / 3-Iron, Ki-duk Kim
FIPRESCI Prize Parallel Sections: Vento di terra, Vincenzo Marra
SIGNIS Award: Tout un hiver sans feu, Greg Zglinski
SIGNIS Award - Honorable Mention: Bin-jip / 3-Iron, Ki-duk Kim (II)
C.I.C.A.E. Award: La Femme de Gilles, Frédéric Fonteyne
UNESCO Award: Land of Plenty, Wim Wenders
Pasinetti Award Best Film: Le Chiavi di casa / The Keys to the House, Gianni Amelio
Pasinetti Award Best Actor: Le Chiavi di casa / The Keys to the House, Kim Rossi Stuart
Pasinetti Award Best Actress: 5×2, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Pasinetti Award for Most Innovative Film: Vento di terra, Vincenzo Marra
Pasinetti Award - Special Mention: Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano. La vera storia di Franco e Ciccio, by Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco, and to the cast of La Vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima
Audience Award (Critics’ Week): Ve’Lakhta Lehe Isha / To Take a Wife, Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
Isvema Award: Ve’Lakhta Lehe Isha / To Take a Wife, Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
FEDIC Award: Volevo solo dormirle addosso, Eugenio Cappuccio
FEDIC Award - Special Mention: Un Silenzio particolare, Stefano Rulli
Little Golden Lion: Bin-jip / 3-Iron, Ki-duk Kim
Label Europa Cinemas: Darwin’s Nightmare, Hubert Sauper
Young Cinema Award for Best Italian Film: Nemmeno il destino, Daniele Gaglianone
Young Cinema Award for Best Digital Film: Un Silenzio particolare, Stefano Rulli
Young Cinema Award for Best International Film: Mar adentro / The Sea Inside, Alejandro Amenábar
"Lino Miccichè" First Feature Award: Nemmeno il destino, Daniele Gaglianone
Open Prize: Sag-haye velgard, Marzieh Meshkini
Future Film Festival Digital Award: Collateral, Michael Mann
Lina Mangiacapre Award: Melancholian 3 huonetta/ The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Pirjo Honkasalo
Sergio Trasatti Award: Le Chiavi di casa / The Keys to the House, Gianni Amelio
CinemAvvenire Award for Best Film: Le Chiavi di casa / The Keys to the House, Gianni Amelio
CinemAvvenire’s Cinema for Peace Award: Promised Land, Amos Gitai
CinemAvvenire Award for Best First Film: Tout un hiver sans feu, Greg Zglinski
Award of the City of Rome: Un Mundo menos peor, Alejandro Agresti
International Peace Award: Jerusalemski sindrom, Jakov Sedlar
Human Rights Film Network Award: Melancholian 3 huonetta/ The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Pirjo Honkasalo
Human Rights Film Network Award - Special Mention: For the third season of Yizo yizo, Angus Gibson, Andrew Dosunmu, and Teboho Mahlatsi
Eiuc Award: Yesterday, Darrell Roodt
Eiuc Award - Special Mention: Melancholian 3 huonetta/ The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Pirjo Honkasalo
Grand Jury: John Boorman (UK) (president); Wolfgang Becker (Germany); Mimmo Calopresti (Italy); Scarlett Johansson (USA); Spike Lee (USA); Dusan Makavejev (Serbia-Montenegro); Helen Mirren (UK); Pietro Scalia (Italy); Feng Xu (China)
FIPRESCI Jury: Michel Ciment (France) (president); Jan Aghed (Sweden); György Boron (Hungary); Diego Batlle (Argentina); Bojidar Manov (Bulgaria); Sebastian Feldmann (Germany); Atsuko Saito (Japan); Massimo Causo (Italy)
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British Academy Awards (Bafta Awards)
Nastri d’Argento (Italian Film Critics’) Awards
Etoile de la Presse (French Film Critics’) Awards
Genie (Canadian Academy) Awards
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