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50th Venice International Film Festival

1993 film festival in Italy


1993 film festival in Italy

FieldValue
name50th Venice International Film Festival
imageVeniceFilmFestiva50bposter.jpg
image_size210px
captionFestival poster
locationVenice, Italy
founded1932
awardsGolden Lion:
*Short Cuts*
*Three Colours: Blue*
date31 August – 11 September 1993
website[Website](http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/)
chronologyVenice Film Festival
preceded_by[49th](49th-venice-international-film-festival)
followed_by[51st](51st-venice-international-film-festival)

Short Cuts Three Colours: Blue

The 50th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 31 August to 11 September 1993.

Australian filmmaker Peter Weir was the Jury President of the main competition.

The Golden Lion winners were: Short Cuts directed by Robert Altman, and Three Colours: Blue directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Jury

Main Competition

The following people comprised the 1993 jury:

  • Peter Weir, Australian filmmaker - Jury President
  • Mohamed Camara, Guinean filmmaker and actor
  • Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian filmmaker
  • Carla Gravina, Italian actress
  • James Ivory, British filmmaker and producer
  • Chen Kaige, Chinese filmmaker
  • Abdulah Sidran, Bosnian writer
  • Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian filmmaker

Official Sections

In competition

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
*[1, 2, 3, Sun](1-2-3-sun)**Un, deux, trois, soleil*Bertrand BlierFrance
*Alas for Me**Hélas pour moi*Jean-Luc Godard
*Bad Boy Bubby*Rolf de HeerAustralia, Italy
*Chatterbox*杂嘴子Liu MiaomiaoChina
*Conversation with a Cupboard Man**Rozmowa z człowiekiem z szafy*Mariusz GrzegorzekPoland
*Dangerous Game**Snake Eyes*Abel FerraraItaly, United States
*Even Cowgirls Get the Blues*Gus Van SantUnited States
*Here on Earth**Aqui na Terra*João BotelhoPortugal, United Kingdom
*I Don't Want to Talk About It**De eso no se habla*María Luisa BembergArgentina, Italy
*Kosh ba kosh*Кош-ба-кошBakhtyar KhudojnazarovTajikistan, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, Japan
*Next Time the Fire**La prossima volta il fuoco*Fabio CarpiItaly, France, Switzerland
*Outrage!**¡Dispara!*Carlos SauraSpain, Italy
*Shadow of a Doubt**L'ombre du doute*Aline IssermannFrance
***Short Cuts*****Robert Altman****United States**
*A Soul Split in Two**Un'anima divisa in due*Silvio SoldiniItaly, Switzerland, France
*Temptation of a Monk*誘僧Clara LawHong Kong
***Three Colours: Blue******Trois couleurs: Bleu*****Krzysztof Kieślowski****France, Poland, Switzerland**
*Where Are You? I'm Here**Dove siete? Io sono qui*Liliana CavaniItaly

Out of competition

  • The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
  • A Bronx Tale (Robert De Niro)
  • Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
  • The Secret of the Old Woods (Ermanno Olmi)
  • Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)

Special Screenings

  • Pursued (restored, Raoul Walsh)
  • La naissance de l'amour (Philippe Garrel)
  • Johnny Guitar (restored, Nicholas Ray)
  • Donersen Islic Cal (Orhan Oguz)
  • High Boot Benny (Joe Comerford)
  • Sono Kido Wo Tohtte (Kon Ichikawa)
  • Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian)
  • Fermière à Montfaucon (Éric Rohmer)
  • L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (Éric Rohmer)
  • Vigyazok (Sándor Sára)
  • The Hollow Men (Joseph Kay, John Yorick)
  • La estrategia del caracol (Sergio Cabrera)
  • Succede un quarantotto (Nicola Caracciolo, Valerio E. Marino)

Venetian Nights

  • L'Enfant lion (Patrick Grandperret)
  • Posse (Mario Van Peebles)
  • La madre muerta (Juanma Bajo Ulloa)
  • In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen)
  • Diki Vostok (Rachid Nougmanov)
  • What' s Love Got to Do with It (Brian Gibson)
  • The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
  • Boxing Helena (Jennifer Chambers Lynch)
  • Kalifornia (Dominic Sena)
  • Dave (Ivan Reitman)
  • Quattro bravi ragazzi (Claudio Camarca)

Italian Panorama

  • Il giorno di San Sebastiano (Pasquale Scimeca)
  • Condannato a nozze (Giuseppe Piccioni)
  • E quando lei morì fu lutto nazionale (Lucio Gaudino)
  • Portagli i miei saluti (Gianna Maria Garbelli)
  • Mille bolle blu (Leone Pompucci)
  • Lest (Giulio Base)

Window on Images

  • Zeit Der Goetter (Lutz Dammbeck)
  • Hercules Returns (David Parker)
  • Terre d' Avellaneda (Daniele Incalcaterra)
  • Strapped (Forest Whitaker)
  • Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family (Andrew Young, Susan Todd)
  • 80 mq - Ottantametriquadri (Cecilia Calvi, Dido Castelli, Luca D'Ascanio, Luca Manfredi, Ignazio Agosta)
  • Lettre pour l... (Roman Goupil)
  • Manhattan by Numbers (Amir Naderi)
  • Utopia, utopia, per piccina che tu sia (Umberto Marino)
  • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard)
  • Metisse (Mathieu Kassovitz)
  • Bells from the Deep (Werner Herzog)
  • Memories and Dreams (Lynn Maree Milburn)
  • The Clean Up (Jane Weinstock)
  • Echoes of Time (Ian Rosenfeld)
  • L' écriture de Dieu (H.P.Schwerfel)
  • Der Fenster Putzer (Veit Helmer)
  • Le jour du bac (Thomas Bardinet)
  • The Obit Writer (Brian Cox)
  • Oreste a Tor Bella Monaca (Carolos Zonars)
  • Otonal (Maria Novaro)
  • Swan Song (Kenneth Branagh)

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

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

  • Il Tuffo by Massimo Martella (Italy)
  • Son of the Shark (Le fils du requin) by Agnès Merlet (France)
  • Moonlight Boy (Yue guang shao nian) by Yu Wei-Yen (Taiwan)
  • New Germany (Neues Deutschland) by Philip Gröning, Uwe Janson, Gerd Kroske, Dani Levy, Maris Pfeiffer (Germany)
  • Public Access by Bryan Singer (United States)
  • Suppli by Vincenzo Verdecchi (Italy)
  • Touchia by Rachid Benhadj (Algeria)

Official Awards

Main Competition

  • Golden Lion:
    • Short Cuts by Robert Altman
    • Three Colours: Blue by Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Silver Lion: Kosh ba kosh by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
  • Grand Special Jury Prize: Bad Boy Bubby by Rolf de Heer
  • Golden Osella:
    • Best Cinematography: Slawomir Idziak for Three Colors: Blue
    • Best Music: Cheb Khaled for 1, 2, 3, Sun
  • Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Fabrizio Bentivoglio for Un'anima divisa in due
    • Best Supporting Actor: Marcello Mastroianni for 1, 2, 3, Sun
  • Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Juliette Binoche for Three Colors: Blue
    • Best Supporting Actress: Anna Bonaiuto for Dove siete? Io sono qui
  • Volpi Cup for Best Ensemble Cast: Short Cuts

[[Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement|Career Golden Lion]]

  • Claudia Cardinale
  • Robert De Niro
  • Roman Polanski
  • Steven Spielberg

Independent Awards

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

  • Za zui zi by Miaomiao Liu

Pietro Bianchi Award

  • Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Elvira Notari Prize

  • Martin Scorsese and Michelle Pfeiffer for The Age of Innocence

Grand Prize of the European Academy

AIACE Award

  • La donna del moro by Mauro Borrelli
  • Fuori da Qui by Alessandro Tannoia

References

References

  1. "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL - 1993".
  2. (19 April 2010). "The 1990s".
  3. (19 April 2010). "Juries for the 1990s".
  4. "10th International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it.
  5. [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551608/ Massimo Martella on IMDb]
  6. [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946095/ Wei-Yen Yu on IMDb]
  7. [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0893774/ Vincenzo Verdecchi on IMDb]
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