Awards·Top prize, by year
Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival · Golden Lion winners by year.
Venice Film Festival · Golden Lion
52 winners on record · 1969–2025
2025
Father Mother Sister Brother
Jim Jarmusch
2024
The Room Next Door
Pedro Almodóvar
2023
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos
2022
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras
2021
Happening
Audrey Diwan
2020
Nomadland
Chloé Zhao
2019
Joker
Todd Phillips
2018
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2017
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
2016
The Woman Who Left
Lav Diaz
2015
From Afar
Lorenzo Vigas
2014
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Roy Andersson
2013
Sacro GRA
Gianfranco Rosi
2012
Pietà
Kim Ki-duk
2011
Faust
Aleksandr Sokurov
2010
Somewhere
Sofia Coppola
2009
Lebanon
Samuel Maoz
2008
Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky
2007
Lust, Caution
Ang Lee
2006
Still Life
Jia Zhangke
2005
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2004
Vera Drake
Mike Leigh
2003
The Return
Andrey Zvyagintsev
2002
The Magdalene Sisters
Peter Mullan
2001
Monsoon Wedding
Mira Nair
2000
The Circle
Jafar Panahi
1999
Not One Less
Zhang Yimou
1998
The Way We Laughed
Gianni Amelio
1997
Hana-bi
Takeshi Kitano
1996
Michael Collins
Neil Jordan
1995
Cyclo
Tran Anh Hung
1994
Before the Rain
Milcho Manchevski
1993
Short Cuts
Robert Altman
1992
The Story of Qiu Ju
Zhang Yimou
1991
Urga
Nikita Mikhalkov
1990
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
1989
A City of Sadness
Hou Hsiao-hsien
1988
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Ermanno Olmi
1987
Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle
1986
The Green Ray
Éric Rohmer
1985
Vagabond
Agnès Varda
1984
Year of the Quiet Sun
Krzysztof Zanussi
1983
Prénom Carmen
Jean-Luc Godard
1982
The State of Things
Wim Wenders
1981
They Don't Wear Black Tie
Leon Hirszman
1980
Atlantic City
Louis Malle
1979
Gloria
John Cassavetes
1978
The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino
1977
Padre Padrone
Paolo Taviani
1975
The Front
1974
The Beast
1969
Satyricon
Federico Fellini