The Lion of St. Mark is an award given each year at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for a lifetime of services to creativity in communications.
It was instituted in 2011. The trophy is modelled on the lion statue in St Mark's Square, Venice, where the first Cannes Lions festival was held in 1954.
Winners 2011, Sir John Hegarty 2012, Dan Wieden 2013, Lee Clow 2014, Joe Pytka 2015, Bob Greenberg 2016, Marcello Serpa 2017, David Droga 2018, Piyush Pandey and Prasoon Pandey 2019, Rich Silverstein & Jeff Goodby 2020, Mary Wells Lawrence
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