The 67th Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, ran 1st to 11th September 2010 at Venice Lido.

5 International Juries assigned the official awards of the Festival 2010.

The Venezia 67 Jury, chaired by Quentin Tarantino and comprised of Guillermo Arriaga, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Arnaud Desplechin, Danny Elfman, Luca Guadagnino, Gabriele Salvatores, having viewed all twenty-four films in competition, has decided as follows:

GOLDEN LION for Best Film:
SOMEWHERE by Sofia COPPOLA (USA)

SILVER LION for Best Director to:
Álex de la Iglesia for the film BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA
(Spain, France)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to:
ESSENTIAL KILLINGby Jerzy SKOLIMOWSKI
(Poland, Norway, Hungary, Ireland)

COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actor:
Vincent GALLO
in the film ESSENTIAL KILLING by Jerzy SKOLIMOWSKI
(Poland, Norway, Hungary, Ireland)

COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actress:
Ariane LABED
in the film ATTENBERG by Athina Rachel TSANGARI (Greece)

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD
for Best Young Actor or Actress:
Mila KUNIS
in the film BLACK SWAN by Darren ARONOFSKY (USA)

OSELLA for Best Cinematography to:
MIKHAIL KRICHMAN
for the film SILENT SOULS (OVSYANKI) by Aleksei FEDORCHENKO (Russia)

OSELLA for Best Screenplay to:
Álex de la Iglesia
for the film BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA by Álex de la Iglesia
(Spain, France)

SPECIAL LION FOR AN OVERALL WORK to:
Monte HELLMAN

‘Monte Hellman is a great cinema artist and minimalistic poet.
His work has inspired this jury and it’s our honour to honor him’



LION OF THE FUTURE – “LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM
Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film Jury at the 67th Venice Film Festival, comprised of Fatih Akin (President), Nina Lath Gupta, Stanley Kwan, Samuel Maoz, Jasmine Trinca, has unanimously decided to award:

COGUNLUK (MAJORITY) by Seren YÜCE (Turkey) – VENICE DAYS

as well as a prize of 100,000 USD, donated by Filmauro di Aurelio e Luigi De Laurentiis to be divided equally between director and producer




ORIZZONTI PRIZE
The Orizzonti Jury of the 67th Venice Film Festival, chaired by Shirin Neshat and composed of Raja Amari, Lav Diaz, Alexander Howarth and Pietro Marcello after screening the 64 films in competition has decided to award:

the ORIZZONTI PRIZE (FULL-LENGTH FILMS)
to VERANO DE GOLIAT by Nicolás PEREDA (Mexico, Canada)

the SPECIAL ORIZZONTI JURY PRIZE (FULL-LENGTH FILMS)
to THE FORGOTTEN SPACE by Noël BURCH and Allan SEKULA (Netherlands, Austria)

the ORIZZONTI AWARD (SHORT FILMS)
to COMING ATTRACTIONS by Peter TSCHERKASSKY(Austria)

the ORIZZONTI AWARD (MEDIUM-LENGTH FILMS)
to TSE (OUT) by Roee ROSEN (Israel)


a SPECIAL MENTION
to JEAN GENTIL by Laura Amelia GUZMÁN and Israel CÁRDENAS (Dominican Republic, Mexico, Germany)


The Jury, after screening the 21 European short films in the Orizzonti competition, has decided to give
the VENICE SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
to THE EXTERNAL WORLD by David OREILLY (Germany)




CONTROCAMPO ITALIANO PRIZE
The Controcampo Italiano Prize Jury at the 67th Venice Film Festival, comprised of Valerio Mastandrea (President), Susanna Nicchiarelli, Dario Edoardo Viganò, has unanimously decided to award:
20 SIGARETTE by Aureliano AMADEI (Italy)

The jury has also decided to award a Special mention to actor Vinicio MARCHIONI
(20 SIGARETTE)




PREMIO L’ORÉAL PARIS PER IL CINEMA
to Vittoria PUCCINI

JAEGER-LECOULTRE GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER
to Mani RATNAM


PERSOL 3-D AWARD FOR THE MOST CREATIVE 3-D FILM OF THE YEAR
The PERSOL 3-D AWARD Jury, comprised of Takashi Shimizu (President), Jim Hoberman, David Zamagni, has decided to award:

AVATAR by James CAMERON (USA, UK)
and DRAGON TRAINER (HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON)
by Chris SANDERS and Dean DEBLOIS (USA)