Special Jury Prize | |
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![]() The 2025 recipient: Kaouther Ben Hania | |
Location | Venice |
Country | Italy |
Presented by | Venice Film Festival |
First award | 1951 |
Currently held by | Kaouther Ben Hania for The Voice of Hind Rajab |
Website | labiennale |
The Grand Jury Prize is an award given at the Venice Film Festival to one of the feature films in competition slate since 1951. It is considered the second place award next to the main award, the Golden Lion.
Since 2016, the official name of the award has been simply the Grand Jury Prize. It has had several other names since its creation in 1951: Special Jury Prize, awarded from 1951 to 1982, and from 2006 to 2012, and Grand Special Jury Prize, awarded from 1983 to 2005, and from 2013 to 2015.
Elia Kazan was the first winner for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951. Kaouther Ben Hania is the most recent winner for The Voice of Hind Rajab in 2025.
Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country |
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1951 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | United States | |
1952 | The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird | La Bergère et le Ramoneur [1] | Paul Grimault | France |
Mandy [2] | Alexander Mackendrick | United Kingdom | ||
1954 | Executive Suite * | Robert Wise | United States | |
1958 | The Lovers | Les amants | Louis Malle | France |
La sfida | Francesco Rosi | Italy, Spain | ||
1959 | The Magician | Ansiktet | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country |
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1981 | Sweet Dreams | Sogni d'oro | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
They Don't Wear Black-tie | Eles Não Usam Black-Tie | Leon Hirszman | Brazil | |
1982 | Imperative | Imperativ | Krzysztof Zanussi | France, Germany, Poland |
1983 | Biquefarre | Georges Rouquier | France | |
1984 | Favorites of the Moon | Le favoris de la lune | Otar Iosseliani | |
1985 | Tangos, the Exile of Gardel | Tangos, el exilio de Gardel | Fernando E. Solanas | Argentina, France |
1986 | A Tale of Love | Storia d'amore | Francesco Maselli | Italy |
Wild Pigeon | Чужая белая и рябой | Sergei Solovyov | Soviet Union | |
1987 | Hip Hip Hurrah! | Hip hip hurra! | Kjell Grede | Denmark, Norway, Sweden |
1988 | Camp de Thiaroye | Sembène Ousmane and Thierno Faty Sow | Algeria, Tunisia | |
1989 | And Then There Was Light | Et la lumière fut | Otar Iosseliani | France |
Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country |
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1990 | An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | New Zealand | |
1991 | The Divine Comedy | A Divina Comédia | Manoel de Oliveira | France, Portugal |
1992 | Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician | Morte di un matematico napoletano | Mario Martone | Italy |
1993 | Bad Boy Bubby | Rolf De Heer | Australia, Italy | |
1994 | Natural Born Killers | Oliver Stone | United States | |
1995 | God's Comedy | A Comédia de Deus | João César Monteiro | Denmark, France, Italy, Portugal |
The Star Maker | L'uomo delle Stelle | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy | |
1996 | Brigands | Brigands, chapitre VII | Otar Iosseliani | France, Italy, Russia, Switzerland |
1997 | Ovosodo | Paolo Virzì | Italy | |
1998 | Next Stop Paradise | Terminus Paradis | Lucian Pintilie | France, Romania |
1999 | The Wind Will Carry Us | باد ما را خواهد برد | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran, France |
Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country |
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2000 | Before Night Falls | Julian Schnabel | United States | |
2001 | Dog Days | Hundstage | Ulrich Seidl | Austria |
2002 | House of Fools | Дом дураков | Andrei Konchalovsky | Russia |
2003 | The Kite | طيّارة من ورق | Randa Chahal | France, Lebanon |
2004 | The Sea Inside | Mar adentro | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain |
2005 | Mary | Abel Ferrara | France, Italy, United States | |
2006 | Daratt | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Austria, Belgium, France | |
2007 | I'm Not There | Todd Haynes | United States | |
The Secret of the Grain | La graine et le mulet | Abdellatif Kechiche | France | |
2008 | Teza | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia, France, Germany | |
2009 | Soul Kitchen | Fatih Akın | Germany |
Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country |
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2010 | Essential Killing [3] | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, Hungary, Norway, Ireland | |
2011 | Terraferma [4] | Emanuele Crialese | Italy | |
2012 | Paradise: Faith [5] | Paradies: Glaube | Ulrich Seidl | Austria, France, Germany |
2013 | Stray Dogs [6] | 郊遊 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan, France |
2014 | The Look of Silence [7] | Senyap | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Indonesia |
2015 | Anomalisa [8] | Charlie Kaufman | United States | |
2016 | Nocturnal Animals [9] | Tom Ford | ||
2017 | Foxtrot [10] | פוֹקְסטְרוֹט | Samuel Maoz | France, Germany, Israel, Switzerland |
2018 | The Favourite [11] | Yorgos Lanthimos | United Kingdom, United States | |
2019 | An Officer and a Spy [12] | J'accuse | Roman Polanski | France, Italy |
Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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2020 | New Order [13] | Nuevo Orden | Michel Franco | Mexico, France |
2021 | The Hand of God [14] | È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
2022 | Saint Omer [15] | Alice Diop | France | |
2023 | Evil Does Not Exist [16] | 悪は存在しない | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
2024 | Vermiglio [17] | Maura Delpero | Italy, France, Belgium | |
2025 | The Voice of Hind Rajab [18] | صوت هند رجب | Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia, France |
The following individuals received two or more Grand Jury Prize awards:
Number of Wins | Directors | Nationality |
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3 | Otar Iosseliani | Georgia |
2 | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
Louis Malle | ||
Ulrich Seidl | Austria |
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