Among the three major film festivals, the Venice Film Festival has the longest history. The Venice Film Festival, held in the Italian island of Lido from late August to early September, attracts the attention of filmmakers and media around the world, in addition to the much-anticipated Golden Lion Award, the Silver Lion Award for Best Director is also one of the most notable awards, in this article, Xiaobian will take you to review the directors and their works that have won this award since 2000.
2000 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
The King of Wrestling / Bukhadab Darsgutah
Bukhadab Dasguta is one of the most important directors in India today, he was an economist, then wrote poetry, then took charge of the director's tube, and the trilogy of early films "Distance", "Crossroads", and "The End of the Road" made him stand out in the industry. His 2000 self-written and directed Wrestling King tells the story of two railroad men who are passionate about wrestling, and one of them brings back a beautiful wife from the country that sparks a series of right and wrong stories. The director hides social criticism in an allegorical story, injecting a lot of hope into the world with weak human feelings.
2001 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
Secret Vote / Babak Boyami
Babak Boyami is a director from Iran who graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in directing. After returning to China, due to the suppression of the authorities, Babak has not had the opportunity to make films, and has been dormant for nearly a decade before making his first work, which has won awards at the Tokyo and Turin Film Festivals in Italy, and the second work "Secret Vote" won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival. Through the most in-depth and simple methods, the film directly stepped on the forbidden political zone and promoted the democratic system. Bayami expresses his concern for national politics and social life from his own perspective, especially the alienation and lack of communication between public political institutions and the populace.
2002 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
Oasis / Li Cangdong
Li Cangdong entered the film circle at the age of 43 and has only made 6 films in more than 20 years, but each film has become a classic in film history. Before entering the film industry, this famous writer, he also worked as a teacher, drew cartoons, and filming was something that Li Cangdong had never thought of before, "When I was a child, I thought that the people who made movies belonged to another world", until I watched Hou Xiaoxian's "The Man from the Wind Cabinet", I was greatly impacted, and I was shocked to realize "how can this director know my secret", and I began to contact movies since then. "Green Fish" is the first part of Li Cangdong's "Green Series", together with "Mints" and "Oasis", which makes Li Cangdong establish his position in the local area.
2003 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
ZANO CITY/ KITANO TAKESHI
Takeshi Kitano is Japan's most influential director after Akira Kurosawa, and is known as the "New Emperor of Japanese Cinema" and the "Standard-Bearer of Japanese Cinema Revival". Born into poverty, Kitano was admitted to Meiji University through his own efforts, and in order to complete his studies, he worked part-time as a bar waiter, taxi driver, and even a construction site clerk until he accidentally hit and became a cross-talk actor, host and director. In 1989, he directed his self-directed debut film "Violent Man", which won the best picture, best director, best actor and rookie awards at the former Japanese Film Awards that year, and "Kikujiro's Summer" directed in 1999 is the most well-known classic film for Chinese film fans.
2004 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
The Empty Room / Kim Ki-duk
Kim Ki-duk is a well-known Korean director and screenwriter, in 1996, Kim Ki-duk became a halfway monk, raised funds to shoot his first film "Crocodile Hidden Corpse Diary", and officially embarked on the road of directing. In 1997, Kim Ki-duk made his second film, City of the Beasts, which was first selected for the 16th Vancouver International Film Festival. In 1998, with his third work "The Little Inn of the Sparrow Cage", he successfully entered Europe and was exhibited in eight international large, medium, and small film festivals such as the Berlin Film Festival. In 2014, he won the Best Picture Award at the 71st Venice Film Festival for his thriller crime thriller "One-on-One".
2005 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
Ordinary Lover / Philip Garrell
Born in 1948, Philippe Gallaire is a special figure spanning the two eras of the French "New Wave" and the "Post-New Wave". His works in the early '70s have a strong personal experimental style, as well as obscure metaphorical thinking, from the early 80s Garrel began to change the style of film, making excellent feature films such as "I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar", "The Birth of Love", and "Wild Innocence".
2006 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
The Place of the Heart / Aaron Renai
Aaron Renée's directing career began with short films, and his early director Van Gogh won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Short Film. When French New Wave cinema rose in the 1950s, he joined hands with like-minded artists to produce a refreshing batch of films that formed the Left Bank. In 1958, he made him famous for his first feature film, Hiroshima Love, followed by Marionba last year, Mriyer, The War Is Over, Far From Vietnam, I Love You, I Love You, Staviski, and Mandate of Heaven. Aaron René has produced a lot of works in his lifetime, and has also won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the three major film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Berlin.
2007 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
Excerpt Revision / Brian de Palma
Brian de Parma is known as "Hitchcock of the United States", "contemporary suspense master", in the decades of film career, he has constantly changed styles, themes, comedy, horror, cop films, gangster films, action movies, science fiction films are tried and explored, he is good at combining visual expression with a highly controlled sense of horror, showing moral ambiguity and seductive dark and depraved mood in absurd stories, screen classics include "Mission Impossible", "Iron Mask Selfless", "Scarface Star", "Dawn of the Lover".
2008 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
"Paper Soldier" / Alexei German the Younger
Alexei Germanic fathers and sons are high-profile directors in Russia. Alexei German is considered the most important Russian director after Tarkovsky. His son Alexei German the Younger inherited his mantle, and the films "Passion", "Paper Soldier", "Under the Electronic Clouds" and "Dovlatov" directed by Alexei German the Younger have been shortlisted for the three major European film festivals.
2009 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
The Woman Without a Man / Shirin Nesha
Born in Iran, Shirin Naisha immigrated to the United States at the age of 17. In 1986, she and several friends returned to Iran to discover that the country had changed as a result of the Islamic Revolution, which inspired her to create works of art that intersected Eastern and Western cultures as well as modern traditions. Shirin Nesha's "Woman Without a Man" focuses on showing each woman's pursuit of change and mysterious encounters, encouraging women to fight against social taboos and celebrating freedom.
2010 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
Sad Trumpet / Alex de La Iglesia
Alex de la Iglesia is a well-known Spanish director and screenwriter who began drawing comics at the age of ten and entered the film and television industry with his fine art expertise, before directing his first short film and being photographed by Pedro Almodóvar and serving as the producer of his first feature film, The Iron Mask X-Men. In 1995, he won the Goya Award for Best Director for Day of the Beast, and in 2010, he won the Silver Lion for Best Director for "Sad Trumpet" and received 15 nominations for the Goya Award.
2011 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
"Mountains of People" / Cai Shangjun
Cai Shangjun is a Chinese mainland director and screenwriter, and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama. His 1998 avant-garde play Paul Kochagin received critical acclaim in the theatre world. In 2006, Choi Sang-jun's first feature film, Red Cambaine, won the Best Film Award at the 48th Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece and the Febysi International Film Critics Award at the 12th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.
2012 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
The Master / Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson is a well-known American director who wrote and directed his own film "Unruly Nights" in 1997, which was a great success and won awards at domestic and foreign film festivals. In November 1999, Thomas Anderson's film Magnolia met with audiences, who compared the film starring Julianne Moore to successful films such as Fight Club, American Beauty, Becoming John Markovich, and The Matrix, and even voted it "Best Movie of 1999" and "Most Promising Oscar Winner."
2013 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
Miss Violence / Alessandro Avanas
Alessandro Avanas is a Greek film director born in Larissa, and in 2013 his miss violence won two awards for best director and best actor at the 70th Venice Film Festival. The film tells the story of a family preparing a banquet for their young daughter, who is about to celebrate her 11th birthday, but the latter jumps off the balcony to commit suicide while everyone is not ready, thus uncovering an unknown family scar.
2014 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
The Postman's White Night / Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrey Koncharovsky is a Russian director born into an artistic family. In 1965, his first feature film, The First Teacher, was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 31st Venice International Film Festival. In his decades of film career, many works such as "Maria's Lover", "Mental Hospital" and "Dear Comrade" have been shortlisted or won awards at three major european film festivals.
2015 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
Crime Family / Pablo Trappero
Pablo Trappero is an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter. In 2008, he directed "The Lion Cage" and was selected as the official competition film of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, and in 2015, he won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 72nd Venice Film Festival for "Crime Family". The film is based on a true story – the Puccio family. The wealthy Buenos Aires family demanded ransom and killed people to make money. Based on a terrible event in the history of crime in Argentina, the film dissects the moral ambiguity and ordinariness of sin.
2016 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
War Paradise / Andrei Koncharovsky
In 1942 wartime Europe, Olga, a Russian aristocratic woman who immigrated to France and a member of the French Resistance, was arrested by the Gestapo when she found her hiding two Jewish children in her apartment, and her case was assigned to Jules, the French police chief under the Gestapo, who wanted to trade her body for her freedom, but the lustful and timid French were still hesitating, and they were shot to God by the Resistance. This is the second time that director Andrei Konchalovsky has won the Venice Best Director Award in 2014 for "The Postman's White Nights."
Savage Region / Amat Iskarat
Amat Iscarrat is a Mexican film director. His feature film debut in 2005, Blood, shocked the Cannes jury and was awarded the Fabizi Critics Award. He later won the Best Director Award at the 66th Cannes Film Festival for his third feature film, Hurley, and in 2016, he won the Silver Lion For Best Director at the 73rd Venice Film Festival with director Andrei Koncharovsky for "The Savage Region".
2017 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
Guardianship / Xavier Legrand
Xavier Legrand is a theatrical actor who has played roles in films directed by Philippe Garrell and Brigitte Hee. Lost at the End is his first short film, which has been screened at 100 international film festivals and won the 2014 César Award for Best Short Film. His first feature film, Guardianship, was an extension of this short film and won the venice award for best director.
2018 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
The Heath Brothers / Jacques Odia
Jacques Odia is the son of the famous French screenwriter Michel Odia, who won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 for his film "Homemade Hero". Later, "Watch How They Fell", "Lip Horror", and "The Rhythm Of My Heart Forgotten" were all well received by the public. Jacques's film The Heath brothers is based on Patrick DeWitt's novel of the same name. Set in 1851 in Oregon, the film tells the story of the Heathest brothers who were hired to kill a miner who stole money from their boss.
2019 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
About Infinity / Roy Anderson
Roy Anderson is a Swedish director whose career has focused on professional advertising, has directed more than 400 commercials, and has launched 4 feature films and 2 short films in more than 30 years, including "Swedish Love Story", "Singing from the Second Floor", "Cold Branches" and "About Endless".
2020 Silver Lion Award for Best Director
"The Spy's Wife" / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director whose early work revolved around monsters and gangsters, and later focused on psychoanalytic horror and suspense genres. In 1997, the supernatural crime thriller "X-Sage", directed by him and starring Hiroshi Sakaisho, attracted widespread attention in the industry. In 2015, he won the Best Director Award in the First Kind of Attention Section of the 68th Cannes Film Festival for his suspense film "Journey to the Shore". On September 13, 2020, he won the Best Director Award at the 77th Venice Film Festival for "The Spy's Wife".