Marcello Mastroianni Award

Marcello Mastroianni Award
2025 recipient: Luna Wedler
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Emerging Actor or Actress
Country	Italy
Presented by	Venice Film Festival
First award	1998
Currently held by	Luna Wedler for Silent Friend (2025)
Website	labiennale.org/en/cinema

The Marcello Mastroianni Award (Italian: Premio Marcello Mastroianni) is one of the awards given out at the Venice International Film Festival.

It was established in 1998 in honor of the Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni, who died at the end of 1996. The award was created to recognize an emerging actor or actress. Since then, several future high profile worldwide actors were awarded: Gael García Bernal , Diego Luna , Hafsia Herzi , Jennifer Lawrence , Jasmine Trinca , Mila Kunis , Tye Sheridan , Paula Beer and Taylor Russell.

Niccolò Senni was the first winner for Shooting the Moon in 1998.

Winners

Bernal won for Y tu mamá también (2001)

{ Abraham Attah won for Beasts of No Nation (2015)

Hafsia Herzi won for The Secret of the Grain (2007)

Paula Beer won for Frantz (2016)

1990s

Year	Performer(s)	Role(s)	English Title	Original Title
1998	Niccolò Senni	Siddharta	Shooting the Moon	L'albero delle pere
1999	Nina Proll	Jasmin Schmid	Northern Skirts	Nordrand

2000s

Year	Performer(s)	Role(s)	English Title	Original Title
2000	Megan Burns	Theresa	Liam
2001	Gael García Bernal	Julio Zapata	Y tu mamá también
	Diego Luna	Tenoch Iturbide
2002	Moon So-ri	Han Gong-ju	Oasis	오아시스
2003	Najat Benssallem	Raja	Raja
2004	Marco Luisi	Pelo	Working Slowly (Radio Alice)	Lavorare con lentezza
	Tommaso Ramenghi	Sgualo
2005	Ménothy Cesar	Legba	Heading South	Vers le sud
2006	Isild Le Besco	Jeanne	The Untouchable	L'intouchable
2007	Hafsia Herzi	Rym	The Secret of the Grain	La graine et le mulet
2008	Jennifer Lawrence	Mariana	The Burning Plain
2009	Jasmine Trinca	Laura	The Big Dream	Il grande sogno

2010s

Year	Performer(s)	Role(s)	English Title	Original Title
2010	Mila Kunis	Lily	Black Swan
2011	Shota Sometani	Yuichi Sumida	Himizu	ヒミズ
	Fumi Nikaidō	Keiko Shazawa
2012	Fabrizio Falco	Pipino	Dormant Beauty	Bella addormentata
2013	Tye Sheridan	Gary Jones	Joe
2014	Romain Paul	Victor	The Last Hammer Blow	Le Dernier Coup de marteau
2015	Abraham Attah	Agu	Beasts of No Nation
2016	Paula Beer	Anna	Frantz
2017	Charlie Plummer	Charley Thompson	Lean on Pete
2018	Baykali Ganambarr	Billy	The Nightingale
2019	Toby Wallace	Moses	Babyteeth

2020s

Year	Performer(s)	Role(s)	English Title	Original Title
2020	Rouhollah Zamani	Ali	Sun Children	خورشید
2021	Filippo Scotti	Fabietto Schisa	The Hand of God	È stata la mano di Dio
2022	Taylor Russell	Maren Yearly	Bones and All
2023	Seydou Sarr	Seydou	Io capitano
2024	Paul Kircher	Anthony	And Their Children After Them	Leurs enfants après eux
2025	Luna Wedler	Grete	Silent Friend	Stille Freundin

External links

• The Venice Film Festival at the IMDb