The 49th annual

Venice International Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

was held on 1 to 12 September 1992.

Jury

The following people comprised the 1992 jury: *

Dennis Hopper Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in ''Giant'' (1956). In the next ten years ...

(head of jury) * Jirí Menzel (head of jury) *

Gianni Amelio Gianni Amelio (born 20 January 1945) is an Italian film director. Early life Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with ...

Anne Brochet Anne Brochet (born 22 November 1966) is a French actress. Career Brochet has appeared in films such as ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', '' Le temps des porte-plumes'', ''30 ans'', '' Une journée de merde!'' and ''Tous les matins du monde''. She has also ...

Neil Jordan Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. His first book, '' Night in Tunisia'', won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He won an Academy ...

Hanif Kureishi Hanif Kureishi (born 5 December 1954) is a British playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist of South Asian and English descent. In 2008, ''The Times'' included Kureishi in its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Early l ...

Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone (; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpeter who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classica ...

* Michael Ritchie *

Jacques Siclier Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...

* Fernando E. Solanas *

Sheila Whitaker Sheila Hazel Whitaker

Official selection

In competition

Autonomous sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as ''In Competition'' for this section: * ''Galaxies Are Colliding'' by

John Ryman John Ryman QC (7 November 1930 – 3 May 2009) was a British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) who sat as an independent MP for his last year in the House of Commons. Ryman was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, and Pembroke Coll ...

(United States) * ''

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'' (''Kisneviy golod'') by Andrey Donchik (Canada, Ukraine) * ''

Klamek ji bo Beko ''Klamek ji bo Beko'' (''A Song for Beko'') is a 1992 film written and directed by Nizamettin Arıç. It is one of the first Kurdish films. Plot The odyssey of a Kurdish man (Beko) in search of his brother, who has fled to avoid being drafted into ...

'' by

Nizamettin Ariç Nizamettin Ariç ( ku, Nîzamettîn Arîç; born 1956 in Ağrı, Turkey) is a contemporary Kurdish people, Kurdish singer, composer and director. He was exposed to traditional Kurdish bard music or ''dengbêj'' at an early age, but until 1980 was pr ...

(Germany, Turkey) * ''The Seven Deadly Sins'' (''Les sept péchés capitaux'') by

Beatriz Flores Silva Beatriz Flores Silva (born November 7, 1956) is an Uruguayan - Belgian film director, film producer, screenwriter and teacher. Her films include ''The Seven Deadly Sins'' (1990), ''The Almost True Story of Pepita the Gunslinger'' (1992), ''In ...

Frédéric Fonteyne Frédéric Fonteyne (; born 9 January 1968) is a Belgian film director. He studied film at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve. His 2020 film ''Working Girls (2020 film), Working Girls'' was selected as the Belgian entry for th ...

, Yvan Le Moine, Geneviève Mersch, Pier-Paul Renders, Pasca Zabus,

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, Olivier Smolders (France, Belgium, Luxemburg) * ''

Leon the Pig Farmer ''Leon the Pig Farmer'' is a 1992 British comedy about a Jewish estate agent in London who discovers that thanks to an artificial insemination mishap, his real father owns a pig farm in Yorkshire. It was directed by Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor, a ...

'' by

Gary Sinyor Gary Sinyor (born Manchester, England, 1962) is an English film director, producer, and writer. Sinyor was raised in a Sephardic Jewish upbringing, before going on to the National Film and Television School. As the co-writer, co-producer, and ...

Vadim Jean Vadim Jean (born Bristol, 9 December 1963)"Zip up your Rhino suit"
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(United Kingdom) * ''Naprawde krotki film o milosci, zabijaniu i jeszcze jednym przykazaniu'' by Rafal Wieczynsky (Poland)Rafal Wieczynsky on IMDb
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Philippe Faucon Philippe Faucon (born 26 January 1958) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Philippe Faucon was born in Oujda, the son of a French soldier and an Algerian ''pied-noir'' mother. He grew up between Morocco and Alger ...

(France)

Awards

Golden Lion The Golden Lion ( it, Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguishe ...

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The Story of Qiu Ju ''The Story of Qiu Ju'' () is a 1992 Chinese comedy-drama film. The film was directed by Zhang Yimou and, as in many of his films, stars Gong Li in the title role. The screenplay is an adaption of Chen Yuanbin's (陈源斌) novella ''The Wan Famil ...

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Yimou Zhang Zhang Yimou (; born 2 April 1950) is a Chinese film director, producer, writer, actor and former cinematographer.Tasker, Yvonne (2002). "Zhang Yimou" i''Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers'' Routledge Publishing, p. 412. . Google Book Search. Retriev ...

) * Special Jury Prize: **''

Morte di un matematico napoletano ''Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician'' ( it, Morte di un matematico napoletano) is a 1992 Italian drama film, written and directed by Mario Martone. The film earned nine awards and was nominated for two, with director and writer Mario Marton ...

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Mario Martone Mario Martone (born 20 November 1959) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed more than 30 films since 1985. His film '' L'amore molesto'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film ''Noi credevamo'' c ...

) *

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

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Un coeur en hiver ''A Heart in Winter'' (french: Un cœur en hiver) is a French film which was released in 1992. It stars Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil and André Dussollier. It was chosen to compete at the 49th Venice International Film Festival, where it won ...

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Claude Sautet Claude Sautet (23 February 1924 – 22 July 2000) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was a chronicler of post-war French society. He made a total of five films with his favorite actress Romy Schneider. Biography Born in Montroug ...

) **'' Jamón, jamón'' (

Bigas Luna José Juan Bigas Luna (19 March 1946 – 5 April 2013) was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong ...

) **'' Hotel de lux'' ( Dan Pita) *

Volpi Cup The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

: **Best Actor:

Jack Lemmon John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. Considered equally proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, Lemmon was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in dramedy pictures, leadin ...

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Glengarry Glen Ross ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' is a play by David Mamet that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts� ...

'') **Best Actress:

Li Gong Gong Li (Chinese: 巩俐; born 31 December 1965) is a Chinese actress. She starred in three of the four Chinese-language films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Gong was born in Shenyang, Liaoning ...

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'') *The President of the Italian Senate's gold medal: **''

Guelwaar ''Guelwaar'' is a 1993 French-Senegalese drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène. The name is borrowed from the Serer pre-colonial dynasty of Guelowar. The film won The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal at the 49th Venice ...

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) *Career Golden Lion: **

Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; ; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is the recipient of five A ...

Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau (; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Mo ...

Paolo Villaggio Paolo Villaggio (; 30 December 1932 – 3 July 2017) was an Italian actor, voice actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid G ...

*Audience Award: **''

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Goran Paskaljević Goran Paskaljević ( sr-cyr, Горан Паскаљевић; ; 22 April 1947 – 25 September 2020) was a Serbian and former Yugoslav film director. Biography Born in Belgrade, he was raised by his grandparents in Niš in southern Serbia, foll ...

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Vadim Jean Vadim Jean (born Bristol, 9 December 1963)"Zip up your Rhino suit"
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Edgar Reitz Edgar Reitz (born 1 November 1932) is a German filmmaker and Professor of Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (State University of Design) in Karlsruhe. He is best-known for his internationally acclaimed '' Heimat film series'' (1 ...

) * OCIC Award: **''

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Sally Potter Charlotte Sally Potter (born 19 September 1949) is an English film director and screenwriter. She is known for directing ''Orlando'' (1992), which won the audience prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Early life Potter was born an ...

) * OCIC Award - Honorable Mention: **''

Daens Daens might refer to: * Adolf Daens, Belgian Flemish priest and politician * Pieter Daens (novel), a novel by Louis Paul Boon *Daens (film) ''Daens'' is a 1992 Belgian period drama film directed by Stijn Coninx, after a novel by Louis Paul Bo ...

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Stijn Coninx Stijn, Baron Coninx (born 21 February 1957) is a Belgian film director. Career He studied film directing at HRITCS (currently Ritcs, at Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel). Baron Coninx is best known for his film ''Daens'', which was nominated for a ...

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) *Pietro Bianchi Award: **

Marco Ferreri Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, who began his career in the 1950s directing three films in Spain, followed by 24 Italian films before his death in 1997. He is considered one of t ...

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References

External links

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Venice Film Festival 1992 Awards
on IMDb {{Venice Film Festival

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