OFFICIAL AWARDS:

Venezia 83:

Golden Lion for Best Film:
Woman Unknown / Kvinde Ukendt (Denmark, Sweden, Latvia)
Directed by May el-Toukhy
Produced by Nordisk Film Production AS
Coproduced by Nordisk Film Production Sverige AB, Film i Väst, Zentropa, Nafta Films
Supported by the Danish Film Institute, the Swedish Film Institute, the National Film Centre of Latvia, Eurimages, Nordisk Film TV & TV Fond

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize:
Possible Love / Ga-neung-han Sa-rang (South Korea, USA)
Directed by Lee Chang-dong

Silver Lion - Award for Best Director:
Ilya Khrzanovsky for DAU (Germany, France, Sweden)

Coppa Volpi for Best Actress:
Mathilde Arcel in Woman Unknown / Kvinde Ukendt (Denmark, Sweden, Latvia)
Directed by May el-Toukhy

Coppa Volpi for Best Actor:
John Malkovich in Wild Horse Nine (UK, USA, Chile)
Directed by Martin McDonagh

Golden Osella for Best Screenplay:
Stéphane Brizé, Coralie Amédéo and Olivier Gorce for A Good Little Soldier / Un bon petit soldat (France)
Directed by Stéphane Brizé

Special Jury Prize:
NAZA (UK, USA)
Directed by Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Emerging Actor/Actress:
Malou Khebizi in A Place to Heal / 15/18 (France)
Directed by Cédric Kahn 

Orizzonti:

Orizzonti Award for Best Film:
Diane in the Loop / Un détour par Diane (Belgium, France)
Directed by Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni

Orizzonti Award for Best Director:
Jacqueline Lentzou for A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Greece, Germany, France)

Special Orizzonti Jury Prize:
House of the Wind / La maison du vent (France, Cameroon, Benin, Belgium)
Directed by Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu

Orizzonti Award for Best Actress:
Laleh Marzban in Falling House (Iran, USA, Germany)
Directed by Mohsen Gharaei

Orizzonti Award for Best Actor:
Riccardo Scamarcio in The Children of the Monkey / I figli della scimmia (Italy)
Directed by Tommaso Landucci

Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay:
Tommaso Landucci, Damian Femert for The Children of the Monkey / I figli della scimmia (Italy)
Directed by Tommaso Landucci

Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film:
A Few Moments of Happiness / Quelques instants de bonheur (UK, France)
Directed by Shaden Safieddine Tazi

Venice Award for a Debut Film:

Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for Debut Film:
House of the Wind / La maison du vent (France, Cameroon, Benin, Belgium)
Directed by Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu 

Venice Spotlight:

Armani Beauty Audience Award:
I Matter / Eu contez (Romania, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands)
Directed by Alina Șerban
Produced by microFILM
Coproduced by 2Pilots Filmproduction, Frakas Productions, Lemming Film
Supported by the Romanian Film Centre (CNC), Eurimages, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Wallimage / Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel

Venice Classics:

Best Restored Film:
Long Night of 1943 / La lunga notte del’43 (Italy)
Directed by Florestano Vancini 

Venice Immersive:

Grand Prize:
The Pigeon Ring (China)
Created by Shixin Tao, Yuqi Zhang

Special Jury Prize:
Out of the Ashes (USA)
Created by Rory Mitchell and Nonny de la Peña

Achievement Prize:
Empire at Sea (USA)
Created by Peter Flaherty

Golden Lion Awards for Lifetime Achievement:
Ellen Burstyn
George Clooney

COLLATERAL AWARDS:

1964 POP ART AWARD | Cineteca della Calabria:
Winner: 
The Girl with the Leica / La ragazza con la Leica (Italy)
Directed by Alina Marazzi

Airone della Laguna Award | Cinetour e Cinit:
Best Film: 
Falling House / Moragheb (Iran, USA, Germany)
Directed by Mohsen Gharaei

Best Short Film: 
Silence (Ukraine)
Directed by Pavlo Shpegun

Special Mention: 

Il senso della terra (Italy)
Directed by Alessandro Ingaria and Simone Massi

Los Poderes (Colombia, France)
Directed by Salim Jaller

Arca CinemaGiovani Award | ARCA (Associazione Ricreativa, Culturale e Sportiva per i dipendenti del gruppo Enel e delle aziende associate):

Best Film of Venezia 83:
Possible Love / Ga-neung-han Sa-rang (South Korea, USA)
Directed by Lee Chang-dong

Best Italian Film in Venice: 
The Spiral / L’estranea (Italy)
Directed by Paolo Strippoli

Authors under 40 Award dedicated to Valentina Pedicini | Parallelo 41 Produzioni:
Best Director (ex aequo): 
Michelle Zhou for Big Little Things / Huangyan Shenghuo (Hong Kong, USA)\
Maria Aparicio for Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion / A Veces Me Entra Tristeza, Otra Veces Rebelion (Argentina, Spain)

Special Mention for Best Direction and Screenplay: 
Shalini Adnani for Our Share of Sand (UK, India, Greece)

Special Mention for Cinematography: 
Simone Hart for Eklipse (Austria, Italy)
Directed by Manuel Wetscher

BookCiak Award | Associazione Calipso:
Winner: 
The Fire Within You / Il fuoco che ti porti dentro (Italy)
Directed by Edoardo De Angelis

Brian Award | UAAR - Unione degli Atei e degli Agnostici Razionalisti:
Winner: 
Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors / Makikiraan po (Philippines)
Directed by Lav Diaz

Special Mention:
No Paradise If You’re Killed by a Woman (Norway, UAE, Sweden, Iraq)
Directed by Halkawt Mustafa

Fundacion Casa Wabi – Mantarraya Award | Fundaciòn Casa Wabi and Mantarraya Production to the director who won the Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film.

XXXVIII Prix CICT-UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni – Medaglia Fellini 2026 | Consiglio Internazionale del Cinema e della Televisione CICT UNESCO – Comitato Italiano:
Winner:
Dear Ajayi (Nigeria, Germany)
Directed by Damilola Orimogunje

Cinema & Arts Award | Associazione Kalambur in collaboration with Ateatro e Centro Sperimentale Accademia Eleonora Duse:
Best Film (ex-aequo):

Look Back / Rukku bakku (Japan)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki (Japan)
Directed by Takashi Miike

Best Multidisciplinary Artist: 
Anatolij Vasil’ev for DAU (Germany, France, Sweden)
Directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky

CinemaSarà Award | Fondazione Cineteca Italiana di Milano:
Winner: 
Look Back / Rukku bakku (Japan)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

CROCE ROSSA ITALIANA Award | Croce Rossa Italiana:
Winner:
A Place to heal / 15/18 (France)
Directed by Cédric Kahn

Edipo Re Award | Edipo Re Srl Sociale in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Padova and Università Ca’ Foscari:
Award Presented by the Official Jury:
A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Greece, Germany, France)
Directed by Jacqueline Lentzou

Award Presented by Ca’ Foscari Student Jury:
NAZA (UK, USA)
Directed by Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

Fanheart3 Award | Associazione Fanheart3:
Golden Clip for Best Film: 
Man’s Skin / Peau d’homme (France)
Directed by Léa Domenach

Silver Ship for Best OTP - One True Pairing:
Chrs and Lee, the characters of Wild Horse Nine by Martin McDonagh

XR Fan Experience: 
Empire at Sea (USA)
Directed by Peter Flaherty

Special Mention: 
Look Back / Rukku bakku (Japan)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

FEDIC Award | Federazione Italiana dei Cineclub:
Best Film: 
Serpenti (Italy)
Directed by Roberto De Paolis Maino

Best Short Film:
Se mai le cose (Italy)
Directed by Giulia Cosentino

Premio Speciale Film Impresa | Unindustria – Unione degli Industriali e delle imprese Roma-Frosinone-Latina-Rieti-Viterbo:
Winner:
A Good Little Soldier / Un bon petit soldat (France)
Directed by Stéphane Brizé

The International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) | FIPRESCI - International Federation of Film Critics:
Best Film from Venezia 83:
Possible Love / Ga-neung-han Sa-rang (South Korea, USA)
Directed by Lee Chang-dong

Best Film from Orizzonti: 
The Color of the Sun (Canada, Italy, Japan)
Directed by Xavier Tera

Giornate degli Autori:

GdA Director’s Award:
Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion / A Veces Me Entra Tristeza, Otras Veces Rebelión (Argentine, Spain)
Directed by María Aparicio

Europa Cinemas Label Prize:
A Woman Today / Une femme aujourd’hui (France)
Directed by Robert Guédiguian

People’s Choice Award:
Balcanica (Italy)
Directed by Nicola Sorcinelli
Produced by Nightswim
Coproduced by This and That Productions, Antitalent
Supported by the Lazio Innove – Lazio Cinema International programme, Film Center Serbia

Venice Critics’ Week:

Grand Prize for Best Film:
Before the War / Prima della guerra (Italy)
Directed by Tommaso Usberti

Special Mention:
The End of Times / El fin de los tiempos (Colombia)
Directed by Bibiana Rojas Gómez,  Juan David Cárdenas

Best Producer Award:
Before the War / Prima della guerra (Italy)
Directed by Tommaso Usberti

Audience Award:
Our Share of Sand (UK, India, Greece)
Directed by Shalini Adnani

Circolo del Cinema di Verona Award for the Most Innovative Film in the Selection:
Zoom In, Zoom Out (China)
Directed by Dong Jie

The Impact Golden Globes Prize for Documentary presented by Artemis Rising Foundation | Artemis Rising con il supporto di Think-Impact Production 
Winner: 
Letters from the Silenced Country / Listy (Poland, Germany, Lithuania) 
Directed by Andrei Kutsila

Green Drop Award | Green Cross Italia:
Winners: 

NAZA (UK, USA)
Directed by Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

The Spiral / L’estranea (Italy)
Directed by Paolo Strippoli

Interfilm Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue | International Interchurch Film Organisation:
Winner: 
A Good Little Soldier / Un bon petit soldat (France)
Directed by Stéphane Brizé

Lanterna Magica Award | Associazione Nazionale C.G.S.:
Winner:
A Place to heal / 15/18 (France)
Directed by Cédric Kahn

Leoncino d'Oro Award | Agiscuola/UNICEF:
Winner: 
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? / Nelson San, anata wa hito wo koroshima (Japan)
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto

Mention Cinema for UNICEF: 
NAZA (UK, USA)
Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor

Carlo Lizzani Award | ANAC - Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici:
Winner:
Balcanica (Italy)
Directed by Nicola Sorcinelli
Produced by Nightswim
Coproduced by This and That Productions, Antitalent
Supported by the Lazio Innove – Lazio Cinema International programme, Film Center Serbia

NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film | Netpac - Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema:
Winner:
Lovers in the Blue Light (India)
Directed by Anuparna Roy

NUOVOIMAIE TALENT AWARD – PREMIO FABIO SARTOR | NUOVOIMAIE – (Nuovo Istituto Mutualistico Artisti Interpreti Esecutori) in collaborazione con il Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani e il Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani:
Best Actress:
Gaia Merlonghi in La città dei vivi (Italy)
Directed by Edoardo Gabbriellini

Best Actor: 
Piero Usberti in Before the War / Prima della Guerra (France, Italy)
Directed by Tommaso Usberti

Award Francesco Pasinetti | Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani:
Winner:
Back to Buenos Aires / Ritorno a Buenos Aires (Italy)
Directed by Marco Bechis

Best Actress: 
Vanessa Scalera in The Fire Within You / Il fuoco che ti porti dentro (Italy)
Directed by Edoardo De Angelis

Best Actor: 
Adriano Giannini in Back to Buenos Aires / Ritorno a Buenos Aires (Italy)
Directed by Marco Bechis

Pasinetti Special Prize: 
The Girl with the Leica / La ragazza con la Leica (Italy)
Directed by Alina Marazzi

La Pellicola d'Oro Award | Associazione Culturale S.A.S.:
Best Chief Engineer:
Roberto Di Pietro for The Echo Chamber (Italy, Belgium)
Directed by Andrea Pallaoro

Best Machine Operator: 
Luigi Andrei for It Will Happen Tonight / Succederà questa notte (Italy, France, Spain)
Directed by Nanni Moretti

Special Mention: 
Laura Delli Colli (for her cultural and artistic activity on the professions and craftsmanship of cinema)

Queer Lion Award | Queer Lion Association:
Best Picture with LGBT and Queer Culture Themes:

Queer Edward II (UK)
Directed by Theo Rollason

London (Brazil)
Directed by Victor Di Marco and Márcio Picoli 

RB Casting Award | RB Casting:
Winner:
Emanuelle Maria Di Stefano in La città dei vivi (Italia)
Directed by Edoardo Gabbriellini

"Roma Film Award – Il Lazio per il cinema” Award | Fondazione Roma Lazio Film Commission:
Winner:
Adriano Giannini

Grand Prize IWONDERFULL - Settimana Internazionale della Critica | Settimana Internazionale della Critica:
Winner:
Before the War / Prima della guerra (Italy)
Directed by Tommaso Usberti

Special Mention: 
The End of Times / El fin de los tiempos (Colombia)
Directed by Bibiana Rojas Gómez, Juan David Cárdenas

People Choice’s Award | Settimana Internazionale della Critica:
Winner:
Our Share of Sand (UK, India, Greece)
Directed by Shalini Adnani

Luciano Sovena Award Conferred to the Best Independent Producer | Settimana Internazionale della critica:
Winner:
Before the War / Prima della guerra (Italy)
Directed by Tommaso Usberti

Mario Serandrei - Hotel Saturnia Award for Best Technical Contribution | Settimana Internazionale della Critica:
Winner:
The End of Times / El fin de los tiempos (Colombia)
Directed by Bibiana Rojas Gómez and Juan David Cárdenas

Award for Best Short Film SIC@SIC – Frame by Frame| Settimana Internazionale della Critica:
Winner:
E-I-E-I-O (Italy)
Directed by Noemi Arfuso

Special Mention: 
Where the Tears Await / Dove le lacrime aspettano (Italty)
Directed by Caterina Bertini and Blu Diego Fasoli 

Award for Best Director – Stadion Video SIC@SIC | Settimana Internazionale della Critica:
Winner:
Revolver (Italy)
Directed by Paoli De Luca

Award for Best Technical Contribution – Advista | Settimana Internazionale della Critica:
Winner:
If Things Could Ever Talk / Se mai le cose (Italy) 
Directed by Giulia Cosentino

SIGNIS Award | SIGNIS International (World Catholic Association for Communication):
Winner: 
Look Back / Rukku bakku (Japan)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

“Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award” | Dream On SRL:
Best Foreign Film:
A Good Little Soldier / Un bon petit soldat (France)
Directed by Stéphane Brizé

Best Italian Film: 
Rider (Italy)
Directed by Roan Johnson and Davide Pavanello

Best Director Under 35: 
NAZA (UK, USA)
Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor

Soundtrack Stars Award | Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani e Free Event:
Best Soundtrack:
La Niña and Alfredo Maddaluno for The Fire Within You / Il fuoco che ti porti dentro (Italy
Directed by Edoardo De Angelis

Special Prize:
Daniel Pemberton for Ink (UK, France, USA)
Directed by Danny Boyle

Soundtrack Stars Special Award 2026: 
Daniel Blumberg and Tredici Pietro

UNIMED Award | UNIMED (Mediterranean University Union):
Winner:
Look Back / Rukku bakku (Japan)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda