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.

Venice Film Festival:

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.

In the Forties he opened an Animation Studio in Venice in which he produced his first works: some commercials, a short titled E poi venne il diluvio and another one titled La piccola fiammiferaia ( 1953, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl ), distributed in Italy together with Robert Aldrich's Attack!

His films were also nominated at many other very important festivals all around the world: César Awards ( Aguirre, the Wrath of God ), Emmy Awards ( Little Dieter Needs to Fly ), European Film Awards ( My Best Fiend ) and Venice Film Festival ( Scream of Stone and The Wild Blue Yonder ).

* Charlie Chaplin débuts his trademark mustached, baggy-pants ' Little Tramp ' character in Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.

* Little Venice ( disambiguation )

At Bulls Bridge, the Paddington Arm branches off to the north and runs 12 miles ( 19 km ) to join the Regents Canal at Little Venice ( see below ).

Five miles ( 8 km ) from Brentford, the Paddington Arm leads to Paddington Basin and, just north-west of the Basin at ' Little Venice ', it connects to the Regent's Canal.

* Warwick Avenue tube station, Little Venice, London

Because of the canals, the hortillonnages are sometimes called " Little Venice of the North ".

The term was originally used in Venice derived from the word Borghetto, meaning Little Borgo, a cluster of homes and buildings often outside Italian city walls, to describe the area where Jews, tradespeople or agricultural workers were compelled to live.

* Little Venice

He is reputed to have named that locality, on the junction of two canals, " Little Venice ", a legend that was disputed by Lord Kinross in 1966 and by London Canals.

* Little Venice

The towpath is a pedestrian and cycle route which runs continuously from Little Venice through Camden Lock to the Islington Tunnel

Sightseeing narrow-boat trips run from Camden Lock to Little Venice.

* Little Venice is a tiny unincorporated community on M-50 ( Clinton Trail ) and the junction with Dow Road from the north and Granger Highway from the west at

* Shaytown is a tiny unincorporated community approximately one mile northwest of Little Venice at the junction of M-50 ( Clinton Trail ) and Shaytown Road at

Little is known of his birth, though he is thought to have been born in Venice, hence his last name.

" Little Venice "

Encouraged by Meyer's creative zeal, he went on to build a commercially viable recording studio in Little Venice called Guerilla Studios ( later situated in Crouch End, North London )

The name Venezuela comes from the lake, when Spanish Conquistadors sailing into this area found the indigenous peoples living in communities of huts supported by stilts along the shores of the Lake over 500 years ago and promptly named this new territory " Little Venice " ( Pequeña Venecia ) or Venezuela.

In 2003, the Egyptian Museum in Berlin allowed the Hungarian artist duo Little Warsaw, Andras Galik and Balint Havas, to place the bust atop a nearly nude female bronze for a video installation to be shown at the Venice Biennale modern art festival.

Still further to the west along the southern shore, in the Municipality of Mogán, are the communities of Puerto Rico and Puerto de Mogán, a village referred to as " Little Venice " on account of its many canals.

File: Coot nest2. JPG | Coots nesting on the rudder of a moored sailing barge, Little Venice, London

File: Coot nest1. JPG | Young coots on nest showing lobed feet, Little Venice, London