Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

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In 2012, his film Passion was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.

He was given a special Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1972.

It was shown in competition at the 1963 Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Work.

In the same year, Flockhart travelled to Spain for the filming of Fragile, which premiered in September 2005 at the Venice Film Festival.

However, he did win Best Foreign Film for Anna Karenina starring Garbo at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival.

Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.

In 1992, he was awarded a Golden Lion – Honorary Award at the Venice Film Festival.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

* Competitive feature film: The festivals in Berlin, Cairo, Cannes, Goa, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Mar del Plata, Montreal, Moscow, San Sebastián, Shanghai, Tokyo, Venice, and Warsaw are accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations ( FIAPF ) in the category of competitive feature films.

Among the major artistic films of this era were La città delle donne, E la nave va, Ginger and Fred by Fellini, L ' albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi ( winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival ), La notte di San Lorenzo by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Antonioni's Identificazione di una donna, and Bianca and La messa è finita by Nanni Moretti.

The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.

In 1955, Hiroshi Inagaki won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Part I of his Samurai trilogy and in 1958 won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Rickshaw Man.

He won the Silver Bear at the Venice Film Festival for Ugetsu.

Takeshi Kitano emerged as a significant filmmaker with works such as Sonatine ( 1993 ), Kids Return ( 1996 ) and Hana-bi ( 1997 ), which was given the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Three films have so far received international recognition by being selected to compete in major film festivals: Caterpillar by Kōji Wakamatsu was in competition for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Silver Bear for Best Actress, Outrage by Takeshi Kitano was in competition for the Palme d ' Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and Himizu, by Sion Sono was in competition for the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival.

He presided over the Cannes Film Festival in 1958 and 1959 and had a similar role at the Venice Film Festival in 1960.

Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize ( 1960, 1962 ), Palme d ' Or ( 1966 ), and 35th Anniversary Prize ( 1982 ); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion ( 1955 ), Golden Lion ( 1964 ), FIPRESCI Prize ( 1964, 1995 ), and Pietro Bianchi Award ( 1998 ); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times ; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995.

New works by Britten featured in virtually every Festival until his death in 1976, including the premieres of his operas A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream at the Jubilee Hall in 1960 and Death in Venice at Snape Maltings Concert Hall in 1973.

Benjamin Britten wrote the leading role of Oberon in his setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ) especially for him ; the countertenor role of Apollo in Britten's Death in Venice ( 1973 ) was created by James Bowman, the best-known amongst the next generation of English countertenors.

Many film scholars consider Shadows one of the highlights of independent film in the U. S. In 1960 the film won the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival.

It has seen the premières of several works by Britten ( A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1960 ; Death in Venice in 1973 ) and also Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy in 1968, The Io Passion in 2004 and The Corridor in 2009.

In 1960, Jean-Jacques Lebel oversaw and partook in the first European Happening L ' enterrement de la Chose in Venice.

As Col. Barrow in Tunes of Glory, Mills won the best Actor Award at the 1960 Venice Film Festival.

He also had triumphs as Malvolio in Twelfth Night ( 1931 ), Shylock in The Merchant of Venice ( 1937 ), Angelo in Measure for Measure ( 1950 ), Cassius in Julius Caesar ( 1950 ) ( which he immortalised in the 1953 film ), Leontes in The Winter's Tale ( 1951 ), and Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII ( 1959 ) ( although his 1960 performance as Othello was not a success ).

He studied piano with Jürgen Uhde and composition and theory with Johann Nepomuk David at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart from 1955 to 1958 and was the first private student of the Italian composer Luigi Nono in Venice from 1958 to 1960.

By 1960 he had exhibited in London, Bern and at the Venice Biennial, and then in Pittsburgh, New York, Amsterdam and Silkeborg as his international reputation grew.

2 ( 1958 – 59 ), whose background included a journey through the Nazi concentration camps, and the " azione scenica " Intolleranza 1960, which caused a riot at its première in Venice, on 13 April 1961 ( Steinitz 1995, Schoenberg-Nono 2005 ).

Burstall's first film was a black-and-white short, The Prize, which won an award at the Venice Film Festival in 1960.

Hamilton was awarded the William and Noma Copley Foundation Award, 1960 ; the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize, 1960 ; the Talens Prize International, 1970 ; the Leone d ’ Oro for his exhibition in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 1993 ; the Arnold Bode Prize at Documenta X, Kassel, 1997 ; and the Max Beckmann Prize for painting, 2006.

There is some doubt whether this first patron of Venice was St Theodore of Amasea or St Theodore Stratelates, but Otto Demus in 1960, in his authoritative book The Church of San Marco in Venice, stated positively that he was St Theodore Stratelates of Heraclea, and he is followed in this by Fenlon.

He won the Guggenheim Award in 1960, represented Ireland in the XXX Venice Biennale, the Douglas Hyde Gallery held a major retrospective of his work in 1981 and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin held a major survey in 2002.

In 1960 Govinda went to Europe as a representative of Tibetan Buddhism at an international religious conference in Venice.

In 1954, together with Nolan and Dobell, he was chosen to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale, and in 1960, at Bouddi near Gosford, New South Wales.

Venice was started in Venice, California in 1977 by cousins Michael Lennon ( born 17 July 1959 ) and Kipp Lennon ( born 12 March 1960 ).

* He married, as his first wife, HSH Princess Ira von Fürstenberg on 17 September 1955 ( civil ) and 21 September 1955 ( religious ) in Venice, Italy ; and the couple were divorced in 1960, annulled in 1969.

He showed at the Venice Biennale five times between 1956 and 1972, and in 1960 won the sculpture prize at the exhibition.

On September 6, 1985 Fellini was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 42nd Venice Film Festival.

** 42nd Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

On September 6, 2009, Lucas was in Venice to present to the Pixar team the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the 2009 Biennale Venice Film Festival.

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat was popular in the Middle Ages, appearing in such works as the Golden Legend, and a scene there involving three caskets eventually appeared, via Caxton's English translation of a Latin version, in Shakespeare's " Merchant of Venice ".

A 1955 film version of Ordet was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion in the 1955 Venice Film Festival and the 1956 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The film premiered at the 2004 Venice International Film Festival and won the Golden Osella award for animation technology.

* Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale of Architecture for lifetime achievement ( 2010 )

Named after Italy's then dictator prime minister, Benito Mussolini, they were abandoned upon his ousting in 1943, and eventually returned as the Grand International Prize of Venice in 1947 ( see Golden Lion ).

Venice remained closely associated with Constantinople, being twice granted trading privileges in the Eastern Roman Empire, through the so-called Golden Bulls or ' chrysobulls ' in return for aiding the Eastern Empire to resist Norman and Turkish incursions.

Wenders has already received many awards, including the Golden Lion for The State of Things at the Venice Film Festival ( 1982 ); the Palme d ' Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for his movie Paris, Texas ; and Best Direction for Wings of Desire in the 1987 Bavarian Film Awards and the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

She also received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2009.