Golden Lion for Career Achievement
The Golden Lion for Career Achievement is an award given out at the Venice Film Festival to people in the world of film who stand out in the field of cinema because of their body of work in this art. It stands side-by-side with the Golden Lion, and it could be said it is the ultimate award.
Instituted in 1971, the acknowledgement that proceeded it in 1969 and in 1970 was a “tribute”. None were assigned from 1973 to 1981 and in 1984. Before that, homage of this kind came in the form of a retrospective.
You also can view the list of awards for the “Golden Lion for Best Film“.
Award Winners
- 1969: tribute to Luis Buñuel
- 1970: tribute to Orson Welles
- 1971: John Ford, Marcel Carné, Ingmar Bergman
- 1972: Charlie Chaplin, Anatoli Golovnia, Billy Wilder
- 1973-1981: not awarded
- 1982: Alessandro Blasetti, Frank Capra, George Cukor, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergej Yutkevic, Alexander Kluge, Akira Kurosawa, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, King Vidor, Cesare Zavattini, Luis Buñuel
- 1983: Michelangelo Antonioni
- 1984: not awarded
- 1985: Federico Fellini, plus a Special Golden Lion to Manoel de Oliveira and John Huston
- 1986: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- 1987: Luigi Comencini, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1988: Joris Ivens
- 1989: Robert Bresson
- 1990: Miklos Jancsó, Marcello Mastroianni
- 1991: Mario Monicelli, Gian Maria Volontè
- 1992: Francis Ford Coppola, Jeanne Moreau, Paolo Villaggio
- 1993: Claudia Cardinale, Roman Polanski, Robert De Niro, Steven Spielberg
- 1994: Ken Loach, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Al Pacino
- 1995: Woody Allen, Alain Resnais, Martin Scorsese, Giuseppe De Santis, Goffredo Lombardo, Ennio Morricone, Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti
- 1996: Robert Altman, Vittorio Gassman, Dustin Hoffman, Michèle Morgan
- 1997: Gérard Depardieu, Stanley Kubrick, Alida Valli
- 1998: Sophia Loren, Andrzej Wajda
- 1999: Jerry Lewis
- 2000: Clint Eastwood
- 2001: Eric Rohmer
- 2002: Dino Risi
- 2003: Dino De Laurentiis, Omar Sharif
- 2004: Manoel de Oliveira, Stanley Donen
- 2005: Hayao Miyazaki, Stefania Sandrelli
- 2006: David Lynch
- 2007: Tim Burton, plus one Gold Lion for the 75th to Bernardo Bertolucci
- 2008: Ermanno Olmi
- 2009: John Lasseter and the directors of Disney?Pixar
- 2010: John Woo
- 2011: Marco Bellocchio
- 2012: Francesco Rosi
