page_title: 62nd Venice International Film Festival
section_title: Official selection
hierarchical_section_title: 62nd Venice International Film Festival / Awards / Official selection
caption_attribution_description: Giovanna Mezzogiorno with the Volpi Cup for the Best Actress at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival 2005 (for the film La Bestia nel Cuore)
context_page_description: The 62nd annual Venice International Film Festival opened on 31 August 2005 with Tsui Hark's Seven Swords and closed on 10 September 2005 with a screening of Peter Ho-sun Chan's musical Perhaps Love. The lineups were announced by the festival director Marco Müller on 28 July 2005 in Rome. The digital films can compete in all categories for the first time of the festival history.
  Asian filmmaking confirmed its vitality, and with this year's most important works demonstrated that it had once again been capable of challenging the most intelligent spectacular effects from Hollywood.
  Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli were each awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The Golden Lion was won by Brokeback Mountain.
  During this edition of the festival, an International Design Competition of the new Palazzo del Cinema took place. The winner of the competition was 5+1 & Rudy Ricciotti. The purpose of the new building is to house the main headquarters of the Film Festival, as well as congresses and cultural events.
context_section_description: The following Official Awards were conferred at the 62nd edition:
  Golden Lion: Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee
  Silver Lion for Best Director: Regular Lovers (Les Amants Réguliers) by Philippe Garrel
  Special Jury Prize: Mary by Abel Ferrara
  Volpi Cup for Best Actor: David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck
  Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Giovanna Mezzogiorno for The Beast in the Heart
  Marcello Mastroianni Award (for the best emerging actor or actress): Ménothy Cesar for Heading South
  Award for Best Cinematography: William Lubtchansky for Regular Lovers
  Award for Best Screenplay: George Clooney and Grant Heslov for Good Night, and Good Luck
  Special Awards
  Special Lion for Overall Work: Isabelle Huppert
  Horizons awards (Premi Orizzonti)
  Best Film: First on the Moon (Pervye na lune) by Aleksei Fedorchenko
  Best Documentary: East of Paradise by Lech Kowalski
  Short Film awards (Corto Cortissimo Lion)
  Citroen Short Super-Short Lion for Best Short Film: Small Station (Xiaozhan) by Lin Chien-ping
  Special Mention: Layla Afel by Leon Prudovsky
  UIP Prize for Best European Short Film: Butterflies by Max Jacoby
caption: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, winner of Volpi Cup Best Actress at 62nd Venice International Film Festival
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