51st Venice International Film Festival

The 51st annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 1 September to 12 September, 1994.^[1][2]

American filmmaker

The following people comprised the 1994 jury:[3]

• David Lynch, American filmmaker, actor, music and visual artist
• Olivier Assayas, French filmmaker and film critic
• Margherita Buy, Italian actress
• Gaston Kaboré, Burkinabé filmmaker
• Nagisa Oshima, Japanese filmmaker
• David Stratton, English-Australian film critic
• Uma Thurman, American actress
• Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer
• Carlo Verdone, Italian actor and filmmaker

Official Sections

In Competition

Out of competition

• Bullets Over Broadway by Woody Allen (United States)
• Dichiarazioni d'amore by Pupi Avati (Italy)
• Oasi by Cristiano Bortone
  (Italy)
• Staggered by Martin Clunes (United Kingdom)
• Tom & Viv by Brian Gilbert (United Kingdom)
• Genesis: The Creation and the Flood by Ermanno Olmi (Italy, Germany)
• Il Postino: The Postman by Michael Radford (Italy, France)

Venetian Nights

• Love and Human Remains by Denys Arcand (Canada)
• True Lies by James Cameron (United States)
• 47 Ronin by Kon Ichikawa (Japan)
• Wolf by Mike Nichols (United States)
• Clear and Present Danger by Phillip Noyce (United States)
• Captives by Angela Pope (United Kingdom)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas by Henry Selick (United States)
• The Night and the Moment by Anna Maria Tatò (France, United Kingdom, Italy)
• Woodstock 25th Anniversary Director' s Cut by Michael Wadleigh
  (United States)
• Metal Skin by Geoffrey Wright (Australia)
• Forrest Gump by Robert Zemeckis (United States)

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:^[4]

• Accumulator 1 (Akumulátor 1) by Jan Svěrák (Czech Republic)
• Cracking Up by Matt Mitler (United States)
• Don’t Get Me Started
  by Arthur Ellis (United Kingdom)
• The Road to Paradise (Doroga V Ray) by Vitalij Moskalenko (Russia)
• Frankie, Jonny und die anderen... Schattenkämpfer by Hans-Erich Viet (Germany)
• K.P. Sasi
  (India)
• Iron Horsemen by Gilles Charmant (France)
• Passé-Composé (en. Past Imperfect) by Françoise Romand (France, Tunisia)
• That Eye, the Sky by John Ruane (Australia)

Official Awards

Main Competition

• Golden Lion:
  • Milčo Mančevski
  • Vive L'Amour by Tsai Ming-liang
• Silver Lion:
  • Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson
  • James Gray
  • Il toro by Carlo Mazzacurati
• Grand Special Jury Prize: Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone
• Golden Osella:
  • Best Director: Gianni Amelio for Lamerica
  • Best Screenplay:
    La teta y la luna
  • Best Cinematography: Christopher Doyle for Ashes of Time
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Xia Yu for In the Heat of the Sun
  • Best Supporting Actor: Roberto Citran for Il toro
• Três Irmãos
  • Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave for Little Odessa

Career Golden Lion

• Al Pacino
• Suso Cecchi d'Amico
• Ken Loach

Independent Awards

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

• Život a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina by Jiří Menzel

Golden Ciak

• La bella vita by Paolo Virzì

FIPRESCI Prize

• Milčo Mančevski
• Vive L'Amour by Tsai Ming-liang

OCIC Award

• Lamerica by Gianni Amelio

References

1. ^ "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL - 1994". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
2. ^ "The 1990s". Retrieved 8 October 2013.
3. ^ "Juries for the 1990s". Retrieved 1 April 2018.
4. ^ "11th International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Archived from the original on 2 April 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1994 Venice Film Festival.

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival 1994 Awards on IMDb