# 56th Venice International Film Festival

The 56th annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 1 and 11 September 1999.
Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut was the festival's opening film. Yugoslavian filmmaker Emir Kusturica was the Jury President for the main competition.
The Golden Lion was awarded to Not One Less directed by Zhang Yimou.

## Juries
### Main Competition

The following people comprised the 1999 jury:
* Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavian filmmaker, actor and musician - Jury President
* Marco Bellocchio, Italian filmmaker and actor
* Maggie Cheung, Chinese actress
* Jonathan Coe, British novelist and critic
* Jean Douchet, French critic
* Shôzô Ichiyama, Japanese film producer
* Arturo Ripstein, Mexican director
* Cindy Sherman, American photographer

### Short Films Competition

* Erick Zonca, French director - Jury President
* Hilke Doering, festival curator
* Andrea Occhipinti, Italian actor and producer

## Official Sections
### In Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Appassionate | Appassionate | Tonino De Bernardi | Italy |
| The Cider House Rules | The Cider House Rules | Lasse Hallström | United States |
| Crazy in Alabama | Crazy in Alabama | Antonio Banderas | United States |
| Empty Days | Rien à faire | Marion Vernoux | France |
| Holy Smoke! | Holy Smoke! | Jane Campion | Australia |
| Jesus' Son | Jesus' Son | Alison Maclean | Canada, United States |
| Lies | 거짓말 | Jang Sun-woo | South Korea |
| Mal | Mal | Alberto Seixas Santos | Portugal |
| Night Wind | Le vent de la nuit | Philippe Garrel | France, Italy, Switzerland |
| No Scandal | Pas de scandale | Benoît Jacquot | France |
| Northern Skirts | Nordrand | Barbara Albert | Austria, Germany, Switzerland |
| Not One Less | 一個都不能少 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| A Pornographic Affair | Une liaison pornographique | Frédéric Fonteyne | Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg |
| Seventeen Years | 過年回家 | Zhang Yuan | China |
| Topsy-Turvy | Topsy-Turvy | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom |
| Until Tomorrow | A domani | Gianni Zanasi | Italy |
| The Venice Project | The Venice Project | Robert Dornhelm | United States, Austria |
| A Week in the Life of a Man | Tydzień z życia mężczyzny | Jerzy Stuhr | Poland |
| The Wind Will Carry Us | باد ما را خواهد برد | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran, France |

## Independent Sections
### Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| A Texas Funeral | A Texas Funeral | William Blake Herron | United States |
| Franck Spadone | Franck Spadone | Richard Bean | France |
| Getting to Know You | Getting to Know You | Lisanne Skyler | United States |
| Shadows in the Dark | Karvaan | Pankaj Butalia | India, France |
| Crane World | Mundo grúa | Pablo Trapero | Argentina |
| This Is the Garden | Questo è il giardino | Giovanni Maderna | Italy |
| Millennium Traveler | 千年旅人 | Hitonari Tsuji | Japan |

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

* Golden Lion: Not One Less by Zhang Yimou
* Grand Special Jury Prize: The Wind Will Carry Us by Abbas Kiarostami
* Silver Lion: Seventeen Years by Zhang Yuan
* Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Jim Broadbent for Topsy-Turvy
* Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Nathalie Baye for Une liaison pornographique
** Special Mention: Se-tong by Heng Tang
* Marcello Mastroianni Award: Nina Proll for Nordrand

### Luigi De Laurentis Award

* Questo è il giardino by Giovanni Maderna
** Special Mention: Bye Bye Africa by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

### Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

* Jerry Lewis

## Independent Awards
### The President of the Italian Senate's gold medal

* Empty Days by Marion Vernoux

### FIPRESCI Prize

* Competition: The Wind Will Carry Us for Abbas Kiarostami
* Parallel Sections: Being John Malkovich for Spike Jonze

### OCIC Award

* Jesus' Son by Alison Maclean
** Special Award: A Week in the Life of a Man by Jerzy Stuhr
** Special Award: Seventeen Years by Zhang Yuan

### UNICEF Award

* Not One Less by Zhang Yimou

### UNESCO Award

* Zion, Auto-Emancipation by Amos Gitai
* Civilisées by Randa Chahal Sabag

### Pasinetti Award

* Best Film: Maurizio Zaccaro by Un uomo perbene
* Best Actor: Sergi López i Ayats for Une liaison pornographique
* Best Actress: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for Empty Days
** Special Mention: Guo nian hui jia (Zhang Yuan)

### Pietro Bianchi Award

* Dino De Laurentiis

### Isvema Award

* Questo è il giardino by Giovanni Maderna

### FEDIC Award

* The Sweet Sounds of Life by Giuseppe Bertolucci
** Special Award: Carlo Croccolo for The Protagonists
** Special Mention: The Protagonists by Luca Guadagnino
** Special Mention: Típota by Fabrizio Bentivoglio
** Special Mention: Enzo, domani a Palermo! by Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco

### Little Golden Lion

* Jesus' Son by Alison Maclean

### Anicaflash Prize

* Crane World by Pablo Trapero

### Elvira Notari Prize

* Kate Winslet and Jane Campion for Holy Smoke!

### Cult Network Italia Prize

* Crane World by Pablo Trapero

### FilmCritica "Bastone Bianco" Award

* Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick

### Future Film Festival Digital Award

* Hakuchi: The Innocent by Macoto Tezuka
** Special Mention: Being John Malkovich by Spike Jonze

### Laterna Magica Prize

* Yi ge dou bu neng shao by Zhang Yimou

### Sergio Trasatti Award

* Yi ge dou bu neng shao by Zhang Yimou

### CinemAvvenire Award

* Best Film on the Relationship Man-Nature: After the Rain by Takashi Koizumi
* Best Film: Bad ma ra khahad bord by Abbas Kiarostami
* Best First Film: Bye Bye Africa by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
* Cinema for Peace Award: Closed Door by Atef Hetata

### Children and Cinema Award

* Guo nian hui jia by Zhang Yuan
** Special Mention: Ritratti: Mario Rigoni Stern by Carlo Mazzacurati

### Rota Soundtrack Award

* But Forever in My Mind by Paolo Buonvino

### Special Director's Award

* Zhang Yuan