Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)

The Special Jury Prize is an award given at the Venice Film Festival. It is awarded to one or two films per year.

Award Winners

Year	Film	Director	Nationality
1951	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	United States
1952	Mandy	Alexander Mackendrick	United Kingdom
1953	No Award Given	N/A	N/A
1954	Executive Suite *	Robert Wise	United States
1955-1957	No Awards Given	N/A	N/A
1958	The Lovers	Louis Malle	France
	La Sfida	Francesco Rosi	Italy
1959	The Magician	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
1960	Rocco and His Brothers	Luchino Visconti	Italy
1961	Peace to Him Who Enters	Aleksandr Alov	Soviet Union
		Vladimir Naumov
1962	Vivre sa Vie	Jean-Luc Godard	France
1963	The Fire Within	Louis Malle	France
	Introduction to Life	Igor Talankin	Soviet Union
1964	The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy
	Hamlet	Grigori Kozintsev	Soviet Union
1965	Simon of the Desert	Luis Buñuel	Mexico
	I Am Twenty	Marlen Khutsiev	Soviet Union
	Modiga mindre män	Leif Krantz	Sweden
1966	Chappaqua	Conrad Rooks	United States
	Yesterday Girl	Alexander Kluge	West Germany
1967	China is Near	Marco Bellocchio	Italy
	La Chinoise	Jean-Luc Godard	France
1968	Our Lady of the Turks	Carmelo Bene	Italy
	Le Socrate	Robert Lapoujade	France
1969-1980	No Awards Given	N/A	N/A
1981	Sogni d’Oro	Nanni Moretti	Italy
	Eles Não Usam Black Tie	Leon Hirszman	Brazil
1982	Imperativ	Krzysztof Zanussi	Poland
1983	Biguefarre	Georges Rouquier	France
1984	Le Favoris de la Lune	Otar Iosseliani	Georgia
1985	Tangos. El Exilio de Gardel	Fernando E. Solanas	Argentina
1986	Wild Pigeon	Sergei Solovyov	Soviet Union
	Storia d'Amore	Francesco Maselli	Italy
1987	Hip Hip Hurrah!	Kjell Grede	Sweden
1988	Camp de Thiaroye	Sembène Ousmane	Senegal
		Thierno Faty Sow
1989	Et la Lumière Fut	Otar Iosseliani	Georgia
1990	An Angel at My Table	Jane Campion	New Zealand
1991	A Divina Comédia	Manoel de Oliveira	Portugal
1992	Morte di un Matematico Napoletano	Mario Martone	Italy
1993	Bad Boy Bubby	Rolf De Heer	Netherlands
1994	Natural Born Killers	Oliver Stone	United States
1995	A Comédia de Deus	João César Monteiro	Portugal
	L'Uomo delle Stelle	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy
1996	Brigands	Otar Iosseliani	Georgia
1997	Ovosodo	Paolo Virzì	Italy
1998	Terminus Paradis	Lucian Pintilie	Romania
1999	The Wind Will Carry Us	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran
2000	Before Night Falls	Julian Schnabel	United States
2001	Dog Days	Ulrich Seidl	Austria
2002	House of Fools	Andrei Konchalovsky	Russia
2003	The Kite	Randa Chahal	Lebanon
2004	The Sea Inside	Alejandro Amenábar	Spain
2005	Mary	Abel Ferrara	United States
2006	Daratt	Mahamat Saleh Haroun	Chad
2007	I'm Not There	Todd Haynes	United States
	The Secret of the Grain	Abdellatif Kechiche	France
2008	Teza	Haile Gerima	Ethiopia
2009	Soul Kitchen	Fatih Akın	Germany
2010	Essential Killing	Jerzy Skolimowski	Poland
2011	Terraferma	Emanuele Crialese	Italy
2012	Paradise: Faith	Ulrich Seidl	Austria
2013	The Police Officer's Wife	Philip Gröning	Germany
2014	Sivas	Kaan Mujdeci	Turkey
2015	Frenzy	Emin Alper	Turkey

• Special Award was given to the main ensemble cast of the film.

External links

• The Venice Film Festival at the IMDb