The 25th annual
Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 10 September 1964.
Jury
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Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati (17 November 1906 – 19 June 1999) was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954 he won the Strega Prize for ''Lettere da Capri.'' He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, su ...
(Italy) (head of jury)
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Rudolf Arnheim
Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 – June 9, 2007) was a German-born writer, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. He learned Gestalt psychology from studying under Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler at the University of Berlin and ap ...
(USA)
* Ove Brusendorff (Denmark)
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Thorold Dickinson
Thorold Barron Dickinson (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow directo ...
(UK)
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Ricardo Muñoz Suay (Spain)
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Georges Sadoul
Georges Sadoul (4 February 1904 – 13 October 1967) was a French film critic, journalist and cinema writer. He is known for writing encyclopedias of film and filmmakers, many of which have been translated into English.
Biography
Sadoul was ...
(France)
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Jerzy Toeplitz
Jerzy Toeplitz AO (24 November 190924 July 1995) was a Polish film educator and theorist. He was the co-founder of the Polish Film School, and later took up an appointment in Australia for the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
Bet ...
(Poland)
Films in competition
Awards
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Golden Lion:
**''
Red Desert'' (
Michelangelo Antonioni)
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Special Jury Prize:
**''
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
'' (
Grigori Kozintsev)
**''
The Gospel According to St. Matthew'' (
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of ...
)
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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 -
Tom Courtenay
Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (; born 25 February 1937) is an English actor. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Courtenay achieved prominence in the 1960s with a series of acclaimed film roles, including ''The Loneliness of ...
- (''
King & Country'')
** Best Actress -
Harriet Andersson - (''
To Love'')
*Best First Work
**''La vie à l'envers'' (
Alain Jessua
Alain Jessua (16 January 1932 – 30 November 2017) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1956 and 1997. He worked as assistant director for Jacques Becker on the set of ''Casque d'or'', with Max Ophüls ...
)
*San Giorgio Prize
**''
Nothing But a Man'' (
Michael Roemer
Michael Roemer (born January 1, 1928) is a film director, producer and writer. He has won several awards for his films. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. A professor at Yale University, he is the author of ''Telling Stories''.
Ea ...
)
*FIPRESCI Prize
**''
Red Desert'' (
Michelangelo Antonioni)
*OCIC Award
**''
The Gospel According to St. Matthew'' (
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of ...
)
*Pasinetti Award
**''La vie à l'envers'' (
Alain Jessua
Alain Jessua (16 January 1932 – 30 November 2017) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1956 and 1997. He worked as assistant director for Jacques Becker on the set of ''Casque d'or'', with Max Ophüls ...
)
**Parallel Sections - ''
Passenger'' (
Andrzej Munk)
*Lion of San Marco - Grand Prize
**''
Skoplje '63
''Skoplje '63'' is a 1964 Yugoslavian documentary film directed by Veljko Bulajić about the 1963 Skopje earthquake (''Skoplje'', per film title, is the Serbo-Croatian spelling of ''Skopje''). It was screened at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, b ...
'' (
Veljko Bulajić
Veljko Bulajić (born 22 March 1928) is a Montenegrin film director and UNESCO Kalinga Prize recipient. He has spent the majority of his life working in Croatia and is primarily known for directing World War II-themed movies from the Partisan f ...
)
**Best Documentary - ''L'enigma Oppenhemier'' (Leandro Castellani)
References
External links
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Venice Film Festival 1964 Awardson IMDb
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