Golden Osella

The Golden Osella is the name of several awards given at the Venice Film Festival. They are awarded irregularly and in various categories such as directing, screenwriting, cinematography and 'technical contributions'.

Best Director

• 1994 - Gianni Amelio for Lamerica
• 1995
  • Abolfazl Jalili for Det Means Girl
  • Kenneth Branagh for In the Bleak Midwinter
  • Hirokazu Koreeda for Maborosi
• 1996-2007 - no awards
  • Aleksei German Ml. for Bumazhnyy soldat
  • Shirin Neshat for Women without Men

Best Original Screenplay

• 1991: Mira Nair and Sooni Taraporevala: Mississippi Masala
• 1994 - Bigas Luna and Cuca Canals: The Tit and the Moon
• 1995 - no award
• 1996 - Paz Alicia Garciadiego - Deep Crimson
• 1997 - Gilles Taurand and Anne Fontaine for Dry Cleaning
• 1998 - Eric Rohmer for Autumn Tale
• 1999-2004 - No awards
• 2005 - George Clooney and Grant Heslov for Good Night, and Good Luck
• 2006 - Peter Morgan for The Queen
• 2007 - Paul Laverty for It's A Free World
• 2008 - Haile Gerima for Teza
• 2009 - Todd Solondz for Life During Wartime
• 2010 - Álex de la Iglesia for A Sad Trumpet Ballad
• 2011 - Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for Alps
• 2012 - Olivier Assayas for Something in the Air

Best Cinematography

• 1988 - Vadim Yusov for The Black Monk
• 1989 - Giorgos Arvanitis for Australia
• 1994 - Christopher Doyle for Dung che sai duk
• 1995-6 - no awards
• 1997 - Emmanuel Machuel for Ossos
• 1998 - Luca Bigazzi for The Way We Laughed and L'Albero delle pere
• 1999-2006 - No awards
• 2007 - Rodrigo Prieto for Lust, Caution
• 2010 - Mikhail Krichman for Silent Souls
• 2011 - Robbie Ryan for Wuthering Heights
• 2012 - Daniele Cipri for È stato il figlio

Best Set Design

• 1996 - Mónica Chirinos and Marisa Pecanins for Deep Crimson
• 1997-2007 no awards

Best Original Music

• 1996 - David Mansfield for Deep Crimson
• 1997 - Graeme Revell for Chinese Box
• 1998 - Gerardo Gandini for La Nube
• 1999-2007 - no awards

Outstanding Technical Contribution

• 2004: Studio Ghibli for Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no Ugoku Shiro)
• 2005: William Lubtchansky for Regular Lovers (Les amants réguliers)
• 2006: Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
• 2007: Rodrigo Prieto for Lust, Caution (Se, jie)
• 2008: A. Khamidhodjaev and M. Drozdov for Paper Soldier (Bumažnyj soldat)
• 2009: Sylvie Olivé for Mr. Nobody
• 2010: Mikhail Krichman for Silent Souls (Ovsyanki)
• 2011: Robbie Ryan for Wuthering Heights
• 2012: Daniele Ciprì for È stato il figlio

External links

• The Venice Film Festival at the IMDb