27th Venice International Film Festival

The 27th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 10 September 1966.^[1]

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^[2]
• Lindsay Anderson, British director and film critic
• Luboš Bartošek, Czechoslovakian
• Michel Butor, French writer and poet
• Lewis Jacobs, American filmmaker
• Lev Kuleshov, Soviet filmmaker
• Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker

Official Selections

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 metà
• 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
  • Ha-Yeled Me'ever Lerechov by Yosef Shalhin

Lion of San Marco

• Memorandum by Donald Brittain and John Spotton
• Testa di rapa by Hermína Týrlová and Giancarlo Zagni^[3]
• Best Film about Adolescence: Ritzar bez bronya by Borislav Sharaliev
• Best Documentary: Le mistral by Joris Ivens
• Best Documentary - Television: Storm Signal by Robert Drew

• Grand Prize:
  • Hectorologie by Yves Plantin and Alain Blondel
  • Rodzina czlowiecza 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: L'ultimo 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: Comment savoir by Claude Jutra
• Film about Architecture: Helioplastika 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
  • Ptaci kohaci by Jirí Torman
  • Documentary - Contemporary Life/Social: Labanta negro by Piero Nelli
  • Recreative Children's Film: Little Mole, for the episode Krtek a raketa by Zdeněk Miler
  • Children's Film - Educative-Didactical: Alexander and a Car without the Left Headlight by Peter Fleischmann
• Honorary Diploma:
  • La fiaba di Tancredi 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: Ritzar bez bronya by Oleg Kovachev

References

External links

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival 1966 Awards on IMDb