10th Venice International Film Festival
The 10th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 11 August to 1 September 1949. The Venice Film Festival came back permanently to the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido di Venezia. The award for the Best film is first called " The Lion of St. Marcus" (instead of Great International Prize of Venice) will maintain this name until 1954, when it became known as Golden Lion permanently. Jury * Mario Gromo * Ermanno Contini * Emilio Lavagnino * Giannino Marescalchi * Aldo Palazzeschi * Piero Regnoli * Gian Luigi Rondi * Gino Visentini * Cesare Zavattini In Competition Awards * Golden Lion of Saint Mark ** ''Manon'' (Henri-Georges Clouzot) * Best Italian Film ** '' Cielo sulla palude'' (Augusto Genina) * Volpi Cup ** Best Actor - Joseph Cotten (''Portrait of Jennie'') ** Best Actress - Olivia de Havilland (''The Snake Pit'') ** Best Director - Augusto Genina ('' Cielo sulla palude'') ** Best Original Screenplay - Jacques Tati ('' Jour de fête'') ** Best Cinematogra ...
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Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ...
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