The 27th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 10 September 1966.
Italian writer Giorgio Bassani was the Jury President. The Golden Lion winner was The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
Jury Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer - Jury President Lindsay Anderson, British director and film critic Luboš Bartošek, Czechoslovak film historian Michel Butor, French writer and poet Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker Lewis Jacobs, American filmmaker Lev Kuleshov, Soviet filmmaker
Official selection The following films were selected to be screened:
In Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country Almost a Man Un uomo a metà Vittorio De Seta Italy Au hasard Balthazar Robert Bresson France The Battle of Algiers La battaglia di Algeri Gillo Pontecorvo Italy, Algeria Chappaqua Conrad Rooks United States Les Créatures Agnès Varda France Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut France, United Kingdom The First Teacher Первый учитель Andrey Konchalovskiy Soviet Union The Guest Atithi Tapan Sinha India The Game Is Over La Curée Roger Vadim France, Italy The Search La Busca Angelino Fons Spain Night Games Nattlek Mai Zetterling Sweden The Wild Angels Roger Corman United States Yesterday Girl Abschied von gestern Alexander Kluge West Germany
Out of Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Big City A Grande Cidade Carlos Diegues Brazil Buster Keaton Rides Again John Spotton Canada Change of Life Mudar de vida Paulo Rocha Portugal The Climber Sticenik Vladan Slijepcevic Yugoslavia Courage for Every Day Každý den odvahu Evald Schorm Czechoslovakia Cul-de-sac Roman Polanski United Kingdom The Drifter Alex Matter The Face of Another Tanin no kao Hiroshi Teshigahara Japan Farewells Het afscheid Roland Verhavert Netherlands The Female Soldier La soldadera José Bolaños Mexico Francesco di Assisi Liliana Cavani Italy I Was Happy Here Desmond Davis United Kingdom The Taking of Power by Louis XIV La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV Roberto Rossellini France
Official Awards
Main Competition Golden Lion: The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo Special Jury Prize: Yesterday Girl by Alexander Kluge Chappaqua by Conrad Rooks Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Jacques Perrin for Un uomo a metà Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Natalya Arinbasarova for The First Teacher
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI Prize The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
OCIC Award Au hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson Honorable Mention: Yesterday Girl by Alexander Kluge
Special Prize: The War Game by Peter Watkins by Yosef Shalhin
Lion of San Marco Memorandum by Donald Brittain and John Spotton by Hermína Týrlová and Giancarlo Zagni Best Film about Adolescence: by Borislav Sharaliev Best Documentary: by Joris Ivens Best Documentary - Television: Storm Signal by Robert Drew
Grand Prize: by Yves Plantin and Alain Blondel by Wladyslaw Slesicki The Girl and the Bugler by Aleksandr Mitta
Plate 'Lion of San Marco' The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work by Jules Engel Best Experimental Film: by Vittorio Armentano Best Sport Film: Hockey by Mica Milosevic Best Children's Film: The Kind-Hearted Ant by Aleksandar Marks & Vladimir Jutrisa Best Animated Film: Chromophobia by Raoul Servais Cultural and Educational Film: by Claude Jutra Film about Architecture: by Jaroslaw Brzozowski
Plate: The Animal Movie by Grant Munro and Ron Tunis Jemima and Johnny by Lionel Ngakane Physics and Chemistry of Water by Sarah Erulkar by Jirí Torman Documentary - Contemporary Life/Social: by Piero Nelli Recreative Children's Film: Little Mole, for the episode by Zdeněk Miler Children's Film - Educative-Didactical: Alexander and a Car without the Left Headlight by Peter Fleischmann Honorary Diploma: by Velia Vergani Tribunal by Herbert Seggelke Willem de Kooning, the Painter by Paul Falkenberg and Hans Namuth Jury Hommage: Robert Bresson Award for best interpretation: by Oleg Kovachev
References
External links
Venice Film Festival 1966 Awards on IMDb