Golden Leopard
The Golden Leopard (Italian: Pardo d'oro) is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to be entered in the competitive selection. The winning films are chosen by a jury. The award went under many names until it was named the Golden Leopard in 1968. The festival was not held in 1951 and the prize was not awarded in 1956 and 1982. As of 2009 René Clair and Jiří Trnka are the only two directors to have won the award twice, both of them winning in consecutive years.
Golden Leopard winners
For the first two years the award was known as Best Film (Miglior film). Then for several years the award went by the name of Grand Prize (Gran premio). In 1950 and 1951 the award was from the International Jury of Journalists (Giuria internazionale dei giornalisti); in 1953 and 1954 the award was from the International Jury of Critics (Giuria internazionale della critica); in 1955 the award was from the Jury of Swiss-Italian Radio (Giuria della Radio della Svizzera Italiana); in 1957 the award was from the Jury of the Swiss Association of Cinematographic Press (Giuria dell'Associazione Svizzera della stampa cinematografica). In 1958 and 1960–65 the award was the Golden Sail (Vela d'oro). In 1959 it was the Prize for Best Direction (Premio per la migliore regia). In 1966 and 1967 the prize was the Grand Prize of the Jury of Youth (Gran premio della Giuria dei giovani). Finally, it became the Golden Leopard in 1968.
Year | Film | Original title | Director | Country |
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1946 | And Then There Were None | René Clair | United States | |
1947 | Man About Town | Le silence est d'or | René Clair, Robert Pirosh | France / USA |
1948 | Germany Year Zero | Germania, anno zero | Roberto Rossellini | Italy / France / Germany |
1949 | The Farm of Seven Sins | La ferme des sept péchés | Jean-Devaivre | France |
1950 | When Willie Comes Marching Home | John Ford | United States | |
1951 | ||||
1952 | Hunted | Charles Crichton | United Kingdom | |
1953 | Julius Caesar | David Bradley | United States | |
The Composer Glinka | Kompozitor Glinka | Grigori Aleksandrov | Soviet Union | |
The Glass Wall | Maxwell Shane | United States | ||
1954 | Prince Bayaya | Bajaja | Jiří Trnka | Czechoslovakia |
Gate of Hell | Jigokumon | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Japan | |
The Sheep Has Five Legs | Le mouton à cinq pattes | Henri Verneuil | France / USA | |
Wild Fruit | Les fruits sauvages | Hervé Bromberger | France | |
Rotation | Wolfgang Staudte | East Germany | ||
1955 | Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | United States | |
The Good Soldier Schweik | Dobrý voják Švejk | Jiří Trnka | Czechoslovakia | |
1956 | ||||
1957 | The Outcry | Il grido | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy / USA |
1958 | Ten North Frederick | Philip Dunne | United States | |
1959 | Killer's Kiss | Stanley Kubrick | United States | |
1960 | Il bell'Antonio | Mauro Bolognini | Italy | |
1961 | Fires on the Plain | 野火 Nobi | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
1962 | The Winner | Un cœur gros comme ça | François Reichenbach | France |
1963 | Transport from Paradise | Transport z ráje | Zbyněk Brynych | Czechoslovakia |
1964 | Black Peter | Černý Petr | Miloš Forman | Czechoslovakia |
1965 | Four in the Morning | Anthony Simmons | United Kingdom | |
1966 | Everyday Courage | Každý den odvahu | Evald Schorm | Czechoslovakia |
1967 | Entranced Earth | Terra em Transe | Glauber Rocha | Brazil |
1968 | The Visionaries | I visionari | Maurizio Ponzi | Italy |
1969 | Charles, Dead or Alive | Charles mort ou vif | Alain Tanner | Switzerland |
Those Who Wear Glasses | Szemüvegesek | Sándor Simó | Hungary | |
Three Sad Tigers | Tres tristes tigres | Raoul Ruiz | Chile | |
No Path Through Fire | В огне брода нет, V ogne broda net | Gleb Panfilov | Soviet Union | |
1970 | End of the Road | Aram Avakian | United States | |
Lilika | Branko Pleša | Yugoslavia | ||
Mujo (This Passing Life) | Akio Jissoji | Japan | ||
Oh, Sun | Soleil O | Med Hondo | France / Mauritania | |
1971 | They Have Changed Their Face | Hanno cambiato faccia | Corrado Farina | Italy |
On the Point of Death | In punto di morte | Mario Garriba | Italy | |
The Friends | Les amis | Gérard Blain | France | |
Private Road | Barney Platts-Mills | United Kingdom | ||
Znaki na drodze (Signs on the Road) | Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski [1] | Poland | ||
1972 | Bleak Moments | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom | |
1973 | The Illumination | Iluminacja | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
1974 | Tüzolto Utca 25 (25 Fireman's Street) | István Szabó | Hungary | |
1975 | The Son of Amir Is Dead | Le fils d'Amr est mort | Jean-Jacques Andrien | Belgium / France / Tunisia |
1976 | The Big Night | Le grand soir | Francis Reusser | Switzerland |
1977 | Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison | Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere | Lino Del Fra | Italy |
1978 | The Idlers of the Fertile Valley | I tembelides tis eforis kiladas | Nikos Panayotopoulos | Greece |
1979 | The Herd | Sürü | Zeki Ökten | Turkey |
1980 | To Love the Damned | Maledetti vi amerò | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
1981 | Chakra (The Vicious Circle) | Rabindra Dharmaraj[2] | India | |
1982 | ||||
1983 | The Princess | Adj király katonát! | Pál Erdöss[3] | Hungary |
1984 | Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | USA / West Germany | |
1985 | Alpine Fire | Höhenfeuer | Fredi M. Murer | Switzerland |
1986 | Jezioro Bodenskie (Lake of Constance) | Janusz Zaorski | Poland | |
1987 | O Bobo (The Jester) | José Álvaro Morais | Portugal | |
1988 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies | United Kingdom | |
Schmetterlinge | Wolfgang Becker | West Germany | ||
1989 | Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? | Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun | Bae Yong-kyun | South Korea |
1990 | Accidental Waltz | Sluchaynyy Vals | Svetlana Proskurina [4] | Soviet Union |
1991 | Johnny Suede | Tom DiCillo | France / United States / Switzerland | |
1992 | Autumn Moon | 秋月 Cau1 Jyut6 | Clara Law | Hong Kong / Japan |
1993 | Azghyin ushtykzyn'azaby | Yermek Shinarbayev | Kazakhstan | |
1994 | Khomreh (The Jar) | Ebrahim Forouzesh | Iran | |
1995 | Raï | Thomas Gilou | France | |
1996 | Nenette and Boni | Nénette et Boni | Claire Denis | France |
1997 | The Mirror | آینه Ayneh | Jafar Panahi | Iran |
1998 | Mr. Zhao | Zhao xiansheng | Lü Yue | China / Hong Kong |
1999 | Skin of Man, Heart of Beast | Peau d’homme, cœur de bête | Hélène Angel | France |
2000 | Father | Baba | Shuo Wang | China |
2001 | Off to the Revolution by a 2CV | Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli | Maurizio Sciarra | Italy |
2002 | The Longing | Das Verlangen | Iain Dilthey | Germany |
2003 | Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) | Sabiha Sumar | Pakistan / France / Germany | |
2004 | Private | Saverio Costanzo | Italy | |
2005 | Nine Lives | Rodrigo García | United States | |
2006 | Das Fräulein | Andrea Staka | Switzerland / Germany | |
2007 | The Rebirth | 愛の予感 Ai no yokan | Masahiro Kobayashi | Japan |
2008 | Parque via | Enrique Rivero [5] | Mexico | |
2009 | She, a Chinese | Xiaolu Guo | UK / France / Germany / China | |
2010 | Winter Vacation | 寒假 Hán jià | Hongqi Li | China |
2011 | Back to Stay | Abrir puertas y ventanas | Milagros Mumenthaler | Argentina / Switzerland / Netherlands |
2012 | The Girl from Nowhere | La fille de nulle part | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France |
2013 | Story of My Death | Història de la meva mort | Albert Serra | Spain / France |
2014 | From What Is Before | Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon | Lav Diaz | Philippines |
2015 | Right Now, Wrong Then[6] | Jigeumeun matgo geuttaeneun teullida | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
2016 | Godless | Безбог (Bezbog) | Ralitza Petrova | Bulgaria / Denmark / France[7] |
2017 | Mrs. Fang | Wang Bing | China / France / Germany[8] | |
2018 | A Land Imagined | Yeo Siew Hua | Singapore / France / Netherlands[9] | |
2019 | Vitalina Varela | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
References
- Andrzej Piotrovsky on IMDb
- Rabindra Dharmara on IMDb
- Pál Erdöss on IMDb
- Svetlana Proskurina on IMDb
- Enrique Rivero on IMDb
- "Palmarès 2015". Locarno.
- "Palmarès 2016". Locarno.
- Anderson, Ariston (12 August 2017). "Locarno Festival: Chinese Documentary 'Mrs. Fang' Wins Golden Leopard". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- Nordine, Michael (11 August 2018). "Locarno Film Festival 2018 Awards: 'A Land Imagined' Takes Home the Golden Leopard". IndieWire. Retrieved 11 August 2018.