27th Venice International Film Festival

The 27th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 10 September 1966.

Italian writer Giorgio Bassani was the Jury President. The Golden Lion winner was The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

Jury

• Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer - Jury President
• Lindsay Anderson, British director and film critic
• LuboÅ¡ BartoÅ¡ek, Czechoslovak film historian
• Michel Butor, French writer and poet
• Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker
• Lewis Jacobs, American filmmaker
• Lev Kuleshov, Soviet filmmaker

Official selection

The following films were selected to be screened:

In Competition

Out of Competition

Official Awards

Main Competition

• Golden Lion: The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
• Special Jury Prize:
• Yesterday Girl by Alexander Kluge
• Chappaqua by Conrad Rooks
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Jacques Perrin for Un uomo a metÃÂ
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Natalya Arinbasarova for The First Teacher

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

• The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo

OCIC Award

• Au hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson
• Honorable Mention: Yesterday Girl by Alexander Kluge

• Special Prize:
• The War Game by Peter Watkins
• by Yosef Shalhin

Lion of San Marco

• Memorandum by Donald Brittain and John Spotton
• by Hermína Týrlová and Giancarlo Zagni
• Best Film about Adolescence: by Borislav Sharaliev
• Best Documentary: by Joris Ivens
• Best Documentary - Television: Storm Signal by Robert Drew

• Grand Prize:
• by Yves Plantin and Alain Blondel
• by Wladyslaw Slesicki
• The Girl and the Bugler by Aleksandr Mitta

Plate 'Lion of San Marco'

• The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work by Jules Engel
• Best Experimental Film: by Vittorio Armentano
• Best Sport Film: Hockey by Mica Milosevic
• Best Children's Film: The Kind-Hearted Ant by Aleksandar Marks & Vladimir Jutrisa
• Best Animated Film: Chromophobia by Raoul Servais
• Cultural and Educational Film: by Claude Jutra
• Film about Architecture: by Jaroslaw Brzozowski

• Plate:
• The Animal Movie by Grant Munro and Ron Tunis
• Jemima and Johnny by Lionel Ngakane
• Physics and Chemistry of Water by Sarah Erulkar
• by Jirí Torman
• Documentary - Contemporary Life/Social: by Piero Nelli
• Recreative Children's Film: Little Mole, for the episode by Zdeněk Miler
• Children's Film - Educative-Didactical: Alexander and a Car without the Left Headlight by Peter Fleischmann
• Honorary Diploma:
• by Velia Vergani
• Tribunal by Herbert Seggelke
• Willem de Kooning, the Painter by Paul Falkenberg and Hans Namuth
• Jury Hommage: Robert Bresson
• Award for best interpretation: by Oleg Kovachev

References

External links

• Venice Film Festival 1966 Awards on IMDb