Volpi Cup for Best Actor
The Volpi Cup (Italian: Coppa Volpi) is the principal award given to actors at the Venice Film Festival and is named in honor of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, the founder of the Venice Film Festival. The name and number of prizes have been changed several times since their introduction, ranging from two to four awards per edition and sometimes acknowledging both leading and supporting performances.
| Volpi Cup for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor |
| Country | Italy |
| Presented by | Venice Film Festival |
| First awarded | 1932 |
| Currently held by | Pierfrancesco Favino Padrenostro (2020) |
| Website | labiennale |
The festival was officially competitive for the first time in 1934. The acting award was named Grande medaglia d'oro dell'Associazione Nazionale Fascista dello Spettacolo per il migliore attore (Great Gold Medal of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment for the Best Actor). After a four-year hiatus caused by the war, the festival was once again competitive in 1947. The acting award in the immediate post-war period was named Premio Internazionale per il migliore attore (International Award for the Best Actor).[1][2][3][4] The festival was again competitive in 1980 but the acting awards given by the competition jury were not reinstated until 1983: the prizes were no longer called Coppa Volpi (Volpi Cup) but were simply referred to as Premio per il migliore attore (Best Actor Award). The winners did not receive cup-shaped awards but were instead given rectangular plaques. In 1988, for the first time in 20 years, the most recognizable prizes of the festival were re-established. The two acting award was officially named Coppa Volpi per la migliore interpretazione maschile (Volpi Cup for the Best Actor).[5]
Award winners
The following actors received the Volpi Cup or other major Best Actor Award:[6][7]
| † | Indicates the performance was also an Academy Award winner |
|---|---|
| ‡ | Indicates the performance was also nominated for an Academy Award |
| Year | Actor | Role | Film | Nationality of actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | ||||
| 1932 & 1934 - Awarded as "Great Gold Medal of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment for the Best Actor" | ||||
| 1932 | Fredric March (Special Award) | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde † | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |  United States |
| 1934 | Wallace Beery[8] (Special Award) | Pancho Villa | Viva Villa! | United States |
| 1935–1942 - Awarded as "Volpi Cup" | ||||
| 1935 | Pierre Blanchar | Raskolnikov | Crime and Punishment (Crime et châtiment) |  France |
| 1936 | Paul Muni | Louis Pasteur † | The Story of Louis Pasteur | United States |
| 1937 | Emil Jannings | Matthias Clausen | Der Herrscher |  Germany |
| 1938 | Leslie Howard | Professor Henry Higgins ‡ | Pygmalion |  United Kingdom |
| 1939 | ||||
| 1940s | ||||
| 1940 | ||||
| 1941 | Ermete Zacconi | Don Geronimo Buonaparte | Don Buonaparte |  Italy |
| 1942 | Fosco Giachetti | Captain Enrico Berti | Bengasi | Italy |
| 1947–1950 - Awarded as "International Award for the Best Actor" | ||||
| 1946 | ||||
| 1947 | Pierre Fresnay | Vincent de Paul | Monsieur Vincent | France |
| 1948 | Ernst Deutsch | Scharf | The Trial (Der Prozeß) |  Austria |
| 1949 | Joseph Cotten | Eben Adams | Portrait of Jennie | United States |
| 1950s | ||||
| 1950 | Sam Jaffe | Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider ‡ | The Asphalt Jungle | United States |
| 1951–1968 - Awarded as "Volpi Cup" | ||||
| 1951 | Jean Gabin | Raymond Pinsard | The Night Is My Kingdom (La nuit est mon royaume) | France |
| 1952 | Fredric March | Willy Loman ‡ | Death of a Salesman | United States |
| 1953 | Henri Vilbert | François Dupont | Le Bon Dieu sans confession | France |
| 1954 | Jean Gabin | Victor Le Garrec | The Air of Paris (L’Air de Paris) | France |
| Max ("Max le Menteur") | Touchez pas au grisbi | |||
| 1955 | Curd Jürgens (Tie) | Wolf Gerke | Heroes and Sinners (Les héros sont fatigués) | Austria / West Germany |
| Kenneth More (Tie) | Freddie Page | The Deep Blue Sea | United Kingdom | |
| 1956 | Bourvil | Marcel Martin | La Traversée de Paris (The trip across Paris) | France |
| 1957 | Anthony Franciosa | Polo Pope ‡ | A Hatful of Rain | United States |
| 1958 | Alec Guinness | Gulley Jimson | The Horse’s Mouth | United Kingdom |
| 1959 | James Stewart | Paul Biegler ‡ | Anatomy of a Murder | United States |
| 1960s | ||||
| 1960 | John Mills | Lt. Col. Basil Barrow | Tunes of Glory | United Kingdom |
| 1961 | Toshirō Mifune | Sanjuro | Yojimbo (用心棒) |  Japan |
| 1962 | Burt Lancaster | Robert Stroud ‡ | Birdman of Alcatraz | United States |
| 1963 | Albert Finney | Tom Jones ‡ | Tom Jones | United Kingdom |
| 1964 | Tom Courtenay | Private Arthur Hamp | King & Country | United Kingdom |
| 1965 | Toshirō Mifune | Dr. Kyojō Niide | Red Beard (赤ひげ) | Japan |
| 1966 | Jacques Perrin | Michele | Un uomo a metà (Almost a Man) | France |
| 1967 | Ljubiša Samardžić | Mali | The Morning (Jutro) | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} SFR Yugoslavia |
| 1968 | John Marley | Richard Forst | Faces | United States |
| 1969– 1982 | No award | |||
| 1980s | ||||
| 1983–1987 - Awarded as "Best Actor Award" | ||||
| 1983 | Guy Boyd (Tie) | Rooney | Streamers | United States |
| George Dzundza (Tie) | Cokes | United States | ||
| David Alan Grier (Tie) | Roger | United States | ||
| Mitchell Lichtenstein (Tie) | Richie | United States | ||
| Matthew Modine (Tie) | Billy | United States | ||
| Michael Wright (Tie) | Carlyle | United States | ||
| 1984 | Naseeruddin Shah | Naurangia | Paar |  India |
| 1985 | Gérard Depardieu | Louis Vincent Mangin | Police | France |
| 1986 | Carlo Delle Piane | Antonio Sant’Elia | Christmas Present (Regalo di Natale) | Italy |
| 1987 | Hugh Grant (Tie) | Clive Durham | Maurice | United Kingdom |
| James Wilby (Tie) | Maurice Hall | United Kingdom | ||
| 1988–present - Awarded as "Volpi Cup for the Best Actor" (also "Volpi Cup for the Best Supporting Actor") | ||||
| 1988 | Don Ameche (Tie) | Gino | Things Change | United States |
| Joe Mantegna (Tie) | Jerry | United States | ||
| 1989 | Marcello Mastroianni (Tie) | Marcello | What Time Is It? (Che ora è?) | Italy |
| Massimo Troisi (Tie) | Michele | Italy | ||
| 1990s | ||||
| 1990 | Oleg Borisov | Svidetel / Christo Panov | The Only Witness (Edinstveniyat svidetel) |  Soviet Union |
| 1991 | River Phoenix | Mikey Waters | My Own Private Idaho | United States |
| 1992 | Jack Lemmon | Shelley “The Machine” Levene | Glengarry Glen Ross | United States |
| 1993 | Fabrizio Bentivoglio | Pietro De Leo | A Soul Split in Two (Un’anima divisa in due) | Italy |
| Marcello Mastroianni (Supporting) | Constantin Laspada | 1, 2, 3, Sun (Un, deux, trois, soleil) | Italy | |
| 1994 | Xia Yu | Ma Xiaojun | In the Heat of the Sun (陽光燦爛的日子) |  China |
| Roberto Citran (Supporting) | Loris | Il Toro | Italy | |
| 1995 | Götz George | Fritz Haarmann | Deathmaker (Der Totmacher) | Germany |
| Ian Hart (Supporting) | Ginger | Nothing Personal | United Kingdom | |
| 1996 | Liam Neeson | Michael Collins | Michael Collins | United Kingdom |
| Chris Penn (Supporting) | Cesarian "Chez" Tempio | The Funeral | United States | |
| 1997 | Wesley Snipes | Max Carlyle | One Night Stand | United States |
| 1998 | Sean Penn | Eddie | Hurlyburly | United States |
| 1999 | Jim Broadbent | W.S. Gilbert | Topsy-Turvy | United Kingdom |
| 2000s | ||||
| 2000 | Javier Bardem | Reinaldo Arenas ‡ | Before Night Falls |  Spain |
| 2001 | Luigi Lo Cascio | Antonio | Light of My Eyes (Luce dei miei occhi) | Italy |
| 2002 | Stefano Accorsi | Dino Campana | A Journey Called Love (Un viaggio chiamato amore) | Italy |
| 2003 | Sean Penn | Paul Rivers | 21 Grams | United States |
| 2004 | Javier Bardem | Ramón Sampedro | The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) | Spain |
| 2005 | David Strathairn | Edward R. Murrow ‡ | Good Night, and Good Luck | United States |
| 2006 | Ben Affleck | George Reeves | Hollywoodland | United States |
| 2007 | Brad Pitt | Jesse James | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | United States |
| 2008 | Silvio Orlando | Michele Casali | Giovanna's Father (Il papà di Giovanna) | Italy |
| 2009 | Colin Firth | George Falconer ‡ | A Single Man | United Kingdom |
| 2010s | ||||
| 2010 | Vincent Gallo | Mohammed | Essential Killing | United States |
| 2011 | Michael Fassbender | Brandon Sullivan | Shame |  Ireland / Germany |
| 2012 | Joaquin Phoenix (Tie) | Freddie Quell ‡ | The Master | United States |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman (Tie) | Lancaster Dodd ‡ | United States | ||
| 2013 | Themis Panou | Father | Miss Violence |  Greece |
| 2014 | Adam Driver | Jude | Hungry Hearts | United States |
| 2015 | Fabrice Luchini | Michel Racine | Courted (L’Hermine) | France |
| 2016 | Oscar Martínez | Daniel Mantovani | The Distinguished Citizen (El ciudadano ilustre) |  Argentina |
| 2017 | Kamel El Basha | Yasser Abdallah Salameh | The Insult (L’insulte) |  Palestine |
| 2018 | Willem Dafoe | Vincent Van Gogh ‡ | At Eternity's Gate | United States |
| 2019 | Luca Marinelli | Martin Eden | Martin Eden | Italy |
| 2020s | ||||
| 2020 | Pierfrancesco Favino | Alfonso | Padrenostro | Italy |
Multiple winners
2 awards
- Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932), Death of a Salesman (1952)
- Jean Gabin - The Night Is My Kingdom (1951), Air of Paris / Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
- Toshirō Mifune - Yojimbo (1961), Red Beard (1965)
- Marcello Mastroianni - What Time Is It? (1989), 1, 2, 3, Sun (1993)
- Sean Penn - Hurlyburly (1998), 21 Grams (2003)
- Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls (2000), The Sea Inside (2004)
Notes
- "La Magnani premiata come miglior attrice". La Stampa. 16 September 1947. Retrieved 2013-08-05.
- "Il Gran Premio ad "Amleto" di Olivier". La Stampa. 5 September 1948. Retrieved 2013-08-05.
- "L'assegnazione dei diciassette premi". L'Unità. 2 September 1949. Retrieved 2013-08-05.
- "L'assegnazione dei premi". La Stampa. 11 September 1950. Retrieved 2013-08-05.
- "Tutti i premiati". La Stampa. 10 September 1988. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
- "Coppa Volpi for best actors since 1935". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- "Volpi Cup for Best Actor". carnivalofvenice.com. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- Beery received an award titled the Great Gold Medal of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment for the Best Actor"I divertimenti". La Stampa. 5 December 1934. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
External links
- The Venice Film Festival at the IMDb
- Coppa Volpi for best actors since 1935 from "La Biennale" website
- Enrico Lancia, I premi del cinema, Gremese Editore, 1998
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