Silver Lion

 ( Venice Film Festival ) 

The Silver Lion (, also known as Silver Lion for Best Direction) is an annual award presented for best directing achievements in a feature film in the official competition section of the Venice Film Festival since 1998.

The prize has been awarded irregularly and has gone through several changes of purpose. Between 1953 and 1994, the award was given infrequently to a number of films as second prize for those nominated for the Golden Lion. At various times, the Silver Lion has also been awarded for debut films, short films, direction, and writing.

Since 1990, the Silver Lion has been presented to the director of a feature film in the official competition; Martin Scorsese was the first official winner of the award for Goodfellas, while Benny Safdie is the most recent winner for The Smashing Machine in 2025. Andrei Konchalovsky is the only person to receive the award twice.

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Silver Lion for Best Direction (1990–present)

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1990s

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2000s

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2010s

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2020s

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Multiple Winners The following individuals received two or more Silver Lion for Best Direction awards:

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Defunct Categories

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Silver Lion Prize (1953–1994) From 1953 to 1957, the Silver Lion was awarded to a number of films nominated for the Golden Lion as a second prize. From 1987 to 1994, the Silver Lion was awarded to one or more films nominated for the Golden Lion.

Moulin Rouge		John Huston
Sadko	Садко	Aleksandr Ptushko
Thérèse Raquin		Marcel Carné
Ugetsu	雨月物語	Kenji Mizoguchi
I Vitelloni		Federico Fellini
Sansho the Bailiff	山椒大夫	Kenji Mizoguchi
Seven Samurai	七人の侍	Akira Kurosawa
La Strada		Federico Fellini
The Big Knife		Robert Aldrich
Ciske the Rat	Ciske de Rat	Wolfgang Staudte
The Grasshopper	Попрыгунья	Samson Samsonov
Long Live the Lady!	Lunga vita alla signora!	Ermanno Olmi
Recollections of the Yellow House	Recordações da Casa Amarela	João César Monteiro
J'entends plus la guitare		Philippe Garrel
Raise the Red Lantern	大紅燈籠高高掛	Zhang Yimou
Jamón jamón		Bigas Luna
Luxury Hotel	Hotel de lux	Dan Pița
Little Odessa		James Gray
The Bull		Carlo Mazzacurati

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Silver Lion for Best First Work (1981–1982)

The Hes Case	De smaak van water	Orlow Seunke	Netherlands

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Silver Lion for Best First Film (1983–1987)

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Silver Lion for Best Screenplay (1990)

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Silver Lion for Best Short Film (1996–2007)

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Silver Lion for Revelation (2006)

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External links

• La Biennale di Venezia official website

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