The 64th annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 29 August to 8 September 2007, at Venice Lido in Italy.
Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou was the jury president for the main competition. Italian actress Ambra Angiolini was the Host of the opening and closing ceremonies. The Golden Lion was awarded to Lust, Caution by Ang Lee, marking his second win after Brokeback Mountain (2005).
American filmmaker Tim Burton received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the festival.
Once again all the films running the contest were shown for the first time as world premieres in keeping with the festival tradition since the Second World War.
The festival opened with Atonement by Joe Wright, and the closed with Blood Brothers by Alexi Tan.
The following films were selected for the main competition:
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
The following films were selected to the Orizzonti main competition:
The following films in 35mm, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition (Corto Cortissimo):
Special mono-graphic sessions dedicated to the secret story of Italian cinema. This is the fourth part of the retrospective, initiated at the 61st edition of the festival; the patron of this edition, focused on Italian Spaghetti Western, was the director Quentin Tarantino.
As a pre-opening event of this future section, the restored Digital Cinema version of David Wark GriffithâÂÂs Intolerance (1916) was screened as a world premiere, in collaboration with the Le Giornate del Cinema Muto di Pordenone. "Venice Classics" which features restored classic films and documentaries on cinema, started as a new section in 2012, at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for the 22nd Venice International Film Criticsâ Week:
The following films were selected for the 4th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:
Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori)
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:
The prize awarded to Cate Blanchett was received by Heath Ledger on behalf of the actress, who could not be present.