# Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (Italian: Leone d'oro alla carriera, lit. 'Career Golden Lion') is an award given at the Venice Film Festival. It is awarded to directors, actors and other personalities from the world of cinema who have distinguished themselves in the art. Among the winners are Charlie Chaplin, Manoel de Oliveira, Stanley Kubrick, Alida Valli, Sophia Loren, Hayao Miyazaki, David Lynch and many other figures of international film. It joins the Golden Lion, the festival's highest prize, which is instead awarded to a film in competition.
The prize was established in 1971. Previously, the equivalent prize was the Omaggio per il complesso dell'opera, awarded in 1969 and 1970. Previously, such tributes were given in the form of retrospectives. The award was not given between 1973 and 1981, nor in 1984. In 1982, there were twelve winners.

## Recipients
### 1960s

| Year | Recipient | Recipient | Profession | Nationality |
| 1969: Awarded as "Omaggio per il complesso dell'opera" |||||
| 1969 (30th) | | Luis Buñuel | Director and screenwriter | Spain / Mexico |

### 1970s

| Year | Recipient | Recipient | Profession | Nationality |
| 1970: Awarded as "Omaggio per il complesso dell'opera" |||||
| 1970 (31st) | | Orson Welles | Actor, director, screenwriter and producer | United States |
| 1971–present: Awarded as "Leone d'oro alla carriera" |||||
| 1971 (32nd) | | Ingmar Bergman | Film director, theatre director and screenwriter | Sweden |
| 1971 (32nd) | | Marcel Carné | Director and screenwriter | France |
| 1971 (32nd) | | John Ford | Director and producer | United States |
| 1972 (33rd) | | Charlie Chaplin | Actor, comedian, director, composer, screenwriter, producer, editor | United Kingdom |
| 1972 (33rd) | — | Anatoli Golovnya | Cinematographer | Soviet Union |
| 1972 (33rd) | | Billy Wilder | Director, screenwriter and producer | Austria / United States |
| 1973 | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. |
| 1974 1975 1976 | No award given, the festival was not organized during these years. Even though a cinema section within the Biennale was organized with "proposals for new films", tributes, retrospectives, conventions, and some screenings. | No award given, the festival was not organized during these years. Even though a cinema section within the Biennale was organized with "proposals for new films", tributes, retrospectives, conventions, and some screenings. | No award given, the festival was not organized during these years. Even though a cinema section within the Biennale was organized with "proposals for new films", tributes, retrospectives, conventions, and some screenings. | No award given, the festival was not organized during these years. Even though a cinema section within the Biennale was organized with "proposals for new films", tributes, retrospectives, conventions, and some screenings. |
| 1977 | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. Even though an event integrated into the Biennale project on "cultural dissent" focused on cinema in Eastern Europe took place. | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. Even though an event integrated into the Biennale project on "cultural dissent" focused on cinema in Eastern Europe took place. | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. Even though an event integrated into the Biennale project on "cultural dissent" focused on cinema in Eastern Europe took place. | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. Even though an event integrated into the Biennale project on "cultural dissent" focused on cinema in Eastern Europe took place. |
| 1978 | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. | No award given, the festival was not organized this year. |
| 1979 (36th) | No award given. | No award given. | No award given. | No award given. |

### 1980s

| Year | Recipient | Recipient | Profession | Nationality |
| 1980 (37th) | No award given. | No award given. | No award given. | No award given. |
| 1981 (38th) | No award given. | No award given. | No award given. | No award given. |
| 1982 (39th) | | Alessandro Blasetti | Director and screenwriter | Italy |
| 1982 (39th) | | Luis Buñuel | Director and screenwriter | Spain / Mexico |
| 1982 (39th) | | Frank Capra | Director, producer and screenwriter | Italy / United States |
| 1982 (39th) | | George Cukor | Director | United States |
| 1982 (39th) | | Jean-Luc Godard | Director, screenwriter and actor | France / Switzerland |
| 1982 (39th) | | Alexander Kluge | Director, author, screenwriter and producer | Germany |
| 1982 (39th) | | Akira Kurosawa | Director, screenwriter, producer and editor | Japan |
| 1982 (39th) | — | Michael Powell | Director, screenwriter and producer | United Kingdom |
| 1982 (39th) | | Satyajit Ray | Director, screenwriter, author and composer | India |
| 1982 (39th) | | King Vidor | Director, screenwriter and producer | United States |
| 1982 (39th) | | Sergei Yutkevich | Director and screenwriter | Soviet Union |
| 1982 (39th) | | Cesare Zavattini | Screenwriter | Italy |
| 1983 (40th) | | Michelangelo Antonioni | Director and screenwriter | Italy |
| 1984 (41st) | No award given. | No award given. | No award given. | No award given. |
| 1985 (42nd) | | Federico Fellini | Director, screenwriter and actor | Italy |
| 1986 (43rd) | | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Directors and screenwriters | Italy |
| 1987 (44th) | | Luigi Comencini | Director and screenwriter | Italy |
| 1987 (44th) | | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Screenwriter, director and producer | United States |
| 1988 (45th) | | Joris Ivens | Documentary director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor | Netherlands |
| 1989 (46th) | — | Robert Bresson | Director and screenwriter | France |

### 1990s

| Year | Recipient | Recipient | Profession | Nationality |
| 1990 (47th) | | Miklós Jancsó | Director and screenwriter | Hungary |
| 1990 (47th) | | Marcello Mastroianni | Actor | Italy |
| 1991 (48th) | | Mario Monicelli | Screenwriter and director | Italy |
| 1991 (48th) | | Gian Maria Volonté | Actor | Italy |
| 1992 (49th) | | Francis Ford Coppola | Director, producer and screenwriter | United States |
| 1992 (49th) | | Jeanne Moreau | Actress, screenwriter and director | France |
| 1992 (49th) | | Paolo Villaggio | Actor, comedian, author and screenwriter | Italy |
| 1993 (50th) | | Claudia Cardinale | Actress | Italy |
| 1993 (50th) | | Robert De Niro | Actor and producer | United States |
| 1993 (50th) | | Roman Polanski | Director, screenwriter, actor and producer | France / Poland |
| 1993 (50th) | | Steven Spielberg | Director, producer and screenwriter | United States |
| 1994 (51st) | | Suso Cecchi d'Amico | Screenwriter | Italy |
| 1994 (51st) | | Ken Loach | Director | United Kingdom |
| 1994 (51st) | | Al Pacino | Actor | United States |
| 1995 (52nd) | | Woody Allen | Director, screenwriter, actor and comedian | United States |
| 1995 (52nd) | | Giuseppe De Santis | Director and screenwriter | Italy |
| 1995 (52nd) | — | Goffredo Lombardo | Producer | Italy |
| 1995 (52nd) | | Ennio Morricone | Composer, orchestrator and conductor | Italy |
| 1995 (52nd) | — | Alain Resnais | Director, editor and screenwriter | France |
| 1995 (52nd) | | Martin Scorsese | Director, producer, screenwriter and actor | United States |
| 1995 (52nd) | | Alberto Sordi | Actor, comedian, director, singer and screenwriter | Italy |
| 1995 (52nd) | | Monica Vitti | Actress | Italy |
| 1996 (53rd) | | Robert Altman | Director, screenwriter and producer | United States |
| 1996 (53rd) | | Vittorio Gassman | Actor | Italy |
| 1996 (53rd) | | Dustin Hoffman | Actor | United States |
| 1996 (53rd) | | Michèle Morgan | Actress | France |
| 1997 (54th) | | Gérard Depardieu | Actor | France |
| 1997 (54th) | | Stanley Kubrick | Director, producer, screenwriter and photographer | United States |
| 1997 (54th) | | Alida Valli | Actress | Italy |
| 1998 (55th) | | Warren Beatty | Actor, producer, screenwriter and director | United States |
| 1998 (55th) | | Sophia Loren | Actress | Italy |
| 1998 (55th) | | Andrzej Wajda | Director and screenwriter | Poland |
| 1999 (56th) | | Jerry Lewis | Comedian, actor, singer, director, screenwriter and producer | United States |

### 2000s

| Year | Recipient | Profession | Nationality |
| 2000 (57th) | Clint Eastwood | Actor, director, producer and composer | United States |
| 2001 (58th) | Éric Rohmer | Director, screenwriter, critic, novelist | France |
| 2002 (59th) | Dino Risi | Director and screenwriter | Italy |
| 2003 (60th) | Dino De Laurentiis | Producer | Italy / United States |
| 2003 (60th) | Omar Sharif | Actor | Egypt |
| 2004 (61st) | Stanley Donen | Director, producer and choreographer | United States |
| 2004 (61st) | Manoel de Oliveira | Director, screenwriter and editor | Portugal |
| 2005 (62nd) | Hayao Miyazaki | Animator, director, screenwriter, producer and manga artist | Japan |
| 2005 (62nd) | Stefania Sandrelli | Actress | Italy |
| 2006 (63rd) | David Lynch | Director, screenwriter, producer, actor, musician and painter | United States |
| 2007 (64th) | Tim Burton | Director, producer, screenwriter, animator and artist | United States |
| 2008 (65th) | Ermanno Olmi | Director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor | Italy |
| 2009 (66th) | John Lasseter | Animator, director, screenwriter and producer | United States |

### 2010s

| Year | Recipient | Profession | Nationality |
| 2010 (67th) | John Woo | Director, screenwriter and producer | Hong Kong |
| 2011 (68th) | Marco Bellocchio | Director, screenwriter and actor | Italy |
| 2012 (69th) | Francesco Rosi | Director and screenwriter | Italy |
| 2013 (70th) | William Friedkin | Director, producer and screenwriter | United States |
| 2014 (71st) | Thelma Schoonmaker | Editor | United States |
| 2014 (71st) | Frederick Wiseman | Documentary director, producer, editor and sound engineer | United States |
| 2015 (72nd) | Bertrand Tavernier | Director, screenwriter and critic | France |
| 2016 (73rd) | Jean-Paul Belmondo | Actor | France |
| 2016 (73rd) | Jerzy Skolimowski | Director, screenwriter, actor and painter | Poland |
| 2017 (74th) | Jane Fonda | Actress and activist | United States |
| 2017 (74th) | Robert Redford | Actor, director, producer and businessman | United States |
| 2018 (75th) | David Cronenberg | Director, screenwriter and actor | Canada |
| 2018 (75th) | Vanessa Redgrave | Actress and activist | United Kingdom |
| 2019 (76th) | Pedro Almodóvar | Director, screenwriter, actor and producer | Spain |
| 2019 (76th) | Julie Andrews | Actress and singer | United Kingdom |

### 2020s

| Year | Recipient | Profession | Nationality |
| 2020 (77th) | Ann Hui | Director, producer, screenwriter and actress | Hong Kong |
| 2020 (77th) | Tilda Swinton | Actress | United Kingdom |
| 2021 (78th) | Roberto Benigni | Actor, director, screenwriter and comedian | Italy |
| 2021 (78th) | Jamie Lee Curtis | Actress | United States |
| 2022 (79th) | Catherine Deneuve | Actress | French |
| 2022 (79th) | Paul Schrader | Screenwriter and director | United States |
| 2023 (80th) | Liliana Cavani | Director and screenwriter | Italy |
| 2023 (80th) | Tony Leung Chiu-wai | Actor and singer | Hong Kong |
| 2024 (81st) | Sigourney Weaver | Actress | United States |
| 2024 (81st) | Peter Weir | Director and screenwriter | Australia |