Alex Kelly, Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis, Daniel Mays, Vera Drake
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, 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: 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)
If I remember it correctly, "Vera Drake" was turned down by the Cannes Film Festival. Mike Leigh thanked Cannes for turning his film down because that's how he went on to win the Golden Lion in Venice.