# 14th Venice International Film Festival

The 14th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 20 August to 4 September 1953.
The Golden Lion of Saint Mark was not awarded this year. The jury, having examined the films in competition and noting the considerable average high level of the motion pictures presented, found that no work prevailed in terms of absolute value. In accordance with article 20 of the 1953 regulation, the jury requested from the president of the festival the authorization not to award the Grand Prix, which was finally granted. Instead, the jury decided to award the Silver Lion to six films.

## Jury

* Eugenio Montale, Italian writer - Jury President
* Gaetano Carancini
* Sandro De Feo
* Nino Ghelli
* Gian Gaspare Napolitano
* Antonio Petrucci
* Luigi Rognoni [it]

## In Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Anatahan | アナタハン | Josef von Sternberg | Japan |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | United States |
| Don't Forget Love | Vergiß die Liebe nicht | Paul Verhoeven | West Germany |
| Easy Years | Anni facili | Luigi Zampa | Italy |
| The Four Poster | The Four Poster | Irving Reis | United States |
| Good Lord Without Confession | Le Bon Dieu sans confession | Claude Autant-Lara | France |
| The Great Temptation | Die große Versuchung | Rolf Hansen | West Germany |
| I Vitelloni | I Vitelloni | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| I Was a Parish Priest | La guerra de Dios | Rafael Gil | Spain |
| Jhansi Ki Rani | झाँसी की रानी | Sohrab Modi | India |
| The Landowner's Daughter | Sinhá Moça | Tom Payne, Oswaldo Sampaio | Brazil |
| Little Fugitive | Little Fugitive | Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin | United States |
| Moulin Rouge | Moulin Rouge | John Huston | United Kingdom |
| Naked Passion | La pasión desnuda | Luis César Amadori | Argentina |
| Neapolitans in Milan | Napoletani a Milano | Eduardo De Filippo | Italy |
| The Parvenus | Jara gospoda | Bojan Stupica | Yugoslavia |
| Pickup on South Street | Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | United States |
| The Proud and the Beautiful | Les Orgueilleux | Yves Allégret | France, Mexico |
| The Return of Vasili Bortnikov | Возвращение Василия Бортникова | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Soviet Union |
| Rimsky-Korsakov | Римский-Корсаков | Nikolai Cherkasov, Aleksandr Borisov | Soviet Union |
| Roman Holiday | Roman Holiday | William Wyler | United States |
| Sadko | Садко | Aleksandr Ptushko | Soviet Union |
| Secrets of Women | Kvinnors väntan | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| The Sea Has Risen | Föltámadott a tenger | László Ranódy, Mihály Szemes, Kálmán Nádasdy | Hungary |
| Thérèse Raquin | Thérèse Raquin | Marcel Carné | France |
| The Secret of Blood | Tajemství krve | Martin Frič | Czechoslovakia |
| Ugetsu | 雨月物語 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| The Vanquished | I Vinti | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
| Youth of Chopin | Młodość Chopina | Aleksander Ford | Poland |

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

* Silver Lion:
** Thérèse Raquin by Marcel Carné
** Ugetsu by Kenji Mizoguchi
** Moulin Rouge by John Huston
** I Vitelloni by Federico Fellini
** Sadko by Aleksandr Ptushko
** Little Fugitive by Ray Ashley, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin
* Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Henri Vilbert for Good Lord Without Confession
* Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Lilli Palmer for The Fourposter
* Bronze Lion:
** Pickup on South Street by Samuel Fuller
** I Was a Parish Priest by Rafael Gil
** Les Orgueilleux by Yves Allégret
** The Landowner's Daughter by Tom Payne

## Independent Awards
### OCIC Award

* I Was a Parish Priest by Rafael Gil

### Pasinetti Award

* Ugetsu by Kenji Mizoguchi