26th Venice International Film Festival

The 26th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 6 September 1965.

Italian poet Carlo Bo was the Jury President. The Golden Lion winner was Sandra directed by Luchino Visconti.

Jury

• Carlo Bo, Italia poet - Jury President
• Lewis Jacobs, American filmmaker
• Nikolai Lebedev, Soviet actor
• Jay Leyda, American filmmaker
• Max Lippmann, German film historian
• Edgar Morin, French philosopher
• Rune Waldekranz, Swedish producer

Official Sections

The following films were selected to be screened:

Main Competition

Out of Competition

Official Awards

Main Competition

• Golden Lion: Sandra by Luchino Visconti
• Special Jury Prize:
• I Am Twenty by Marlen Khutsiyev
• Simon of the Desert by Luis Buñuel
• Modiga mindre män by Leif Krantz
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Toshirô Mifune by Red Beard
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Annie Girardot by Three Rooms in Manhattan
• Best First Work: Faithfulness by Pyotr Todorovsky

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

• Simon of the Desert by Luis Buñuel
• Gertrud by Carl Theodor Dreyer

OCIC Award

• Red Beard by Akira Kurosawa

UNICRIT Award

• Twenty Hours by Zoltán Fábri

Lion of San Marco

• Utek do vetru by Václav Táborsky
• Tjorven, BÃ¥tsman och Moses by Olle Hellbom
• The Snowy Day by Mal Wittman
• Enter Hamlet by School of Visual Art California
• Best Film about Adolescence: The Searching Eye by Saul Bass
• Best Documentary: Le isole incantante by Aleksandr Zguridi
• Best Documentary - Television: Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy by Liliana Cavani
• Best Children's Film - Television: Charley by Jimmy Murakami & Alan Ball

• Grand Prize: Jack Frost by Aleksandr Rou
• Silver Medal: Daylight Robbery by Darryl Read

San Michele Award

• The Whacky Mixed-Up Carabiniers by Felix G. Palmer

References

External links

• Venice Film Festival 1965 Awards on IMDb