The 42nd annual
Venice International Film Festival was held on 26 August to 6 September 1985.
Jury
The following people comprised the 1985 jury:
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Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is ...
(head of jury) (Poland)
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Guido Aristarco (Italy)
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Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei (Italy)
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Ricardo Bofill
Ricardo Bofill Leví (; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Spanish architect from Catalonia. He founded Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 and developed it into a leading international architectural and urban design practice. ...
(Spain)
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Frank Capra (USA)
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Jean d'Ormesson
Count Jean Bruno Wladimir François de Paule Le Fèvre d'Ormesson (16 June 1925 – 5 December 2017) was a French novelist. He was the author of forty books, the director of '' Le Figaro'' from 1974 to 1979, and the Dean of the Académie français ...
(France)
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Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis ( el, Οδυσσέας Ελύτης , pen name of Odysseas Alepoudellis, el, Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλλης; 2 November 1911 – 18 March 1996) was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as th ...
(Greece)
* Kon Ichikawa (Japan)
* Eugène Ionesco (France)
* Elem Klimov (USSR)
* Lino Micciché (Italy)
* Zoran Mušič (Yugoslavia)
* John Schlesinger (UK)
* Renzo Vespignani (Italy)
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:
* ''Eric de Kuyper#A Strange Love Affair (1984), A Strange Love Affair'' by Eric de Kuyper, Paul Verstraten (Netherlands)
* ''El Haimoune'' (En. ''Wanderers of the Desert'') by Nacer Khemir (Tunisia, France)
* ''Fandango (1985 film), Fandango'' by Kevin Reynolds (director), Kevin Reynolds (United States)
* ''Ain't Nothin' Without You'' ''Noisy Martha'' (''Nicht nichts ohne Dich'') by (West Germany)
* ''The Record'' (''Der Rekord'') by Daniel Helfer (West Germany, Switzerland)
* ''The Disciples'' (''A tanítványok'') by Géza Bereményi (Hungary)
* ''Yesterday (1985 film), Yesterday'' by Radosław Piwowarski (Poland)
Awards
*Golden Lion:
**''Vagabond (1985 film), Vagabond'' (''Sans toit ni loi'') by Agnès Varda
*Grand Special Jury Prize:
**''Tangos, the Exile of Gardel'' (''Tangos, l'exil de Gardel'') by Fernando Solanas
*Special Jury Prize:
**''The Lightship'' by Jerzy Skolimowski
*Silver Lion:
**''Dust (1985 film), Dust'' by Marion Hänsel
*Best Actor:
**Gérard Depardieu (''Police (1985 film), Police'')
*Best Actress:
** NOT ASSIGNED.
The jury deemed the best performances to be Sandrine Bonnaire (''Sans toit ni loi'') and Jane Birkin (''Dust''), but decided against awarding the prize as both films won major awards.
**Special mentions:
***Sonja Savić (''Zivot je lep'')
***Galya Novents (''Mer mankutyan tangon'')
***Themis Bazaka (''Petrina hronia'')
*Career Golden Lion
**Federico Fellini
*Special Lion for the Overall Work
**John Huston
**Manoel de Oliveira
*Sergio Trasatti Awards
**Manoel de Oliveira (''The Satin Slipper'')
**Special Mention — Juraj Jakubisko (''The Feather Fairy'')
References
*Edoardo Pittalis - Roberto Pugliese, ''Bella di Notte'', August 1996
*''L'Europeo'', ''Cinema in Laguna'', SePtember 2008
External links
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Venice Film Festival 1985 Awardson IMDb
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