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. It joins the Golden Lion, the festival's highest prize, which is instead awarded to a film in competition.^[1]

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Leone d'oro alla carriera (Italian)
Martin Scorsese receiving the award in 1995
Location	Venice
Country	Italy
Presented by	Venice Film Festival
First award	1971
Currently held by	Peter Weir and Sigourney Weaver (2024)
Website	labiennale.org/cinema

Among the winners include filmmakers such as Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, and Pedro Almodovar and actors which include Sophia Loren, Catherine Deneuve, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, Al Pacino, Julie Andrews, and Tilda Swinton as well many other figures of international film.^[2]

The prize was established in 1971.^[3] Previously, the equivalent prize was the Omaggio per il complesso dell'opera, awarded in 1969 and 1970.^[2] Previously, such tributes were given in the form of retrospectives. The award was not given between 1973 and 1981, nor in 1984.^[4] In 1982, there were twelve winners.^[2]

Recipients

Luis Buñuel won twice in 1969 and 1982.

Orson Welles won in 1970.

Charlie Chaplin won in 1971.

Robert De Niro won in 1993.

Steven Spielberg won in 1993.

Martin Scorsese won in 1995.

Woody Allen won in 1995.

Dustin Hoffman won in 1996.

Sophia Loren won in 1998.

Clint Eastwood won in 2000.

David Lynch won in 2006.

Jane Fonda won in 2017.

Pedro Almodóvar won in 2019.

Dame Julie Andrews won in 2019.

Tilda Swinton won in 2020.

Catherine Deneuve won in 2022.

1960s

Year	Recipient	Profession	Nationality	Ref.
1969: Awarded as "Omaggio per il complesso dell'opera"
1969	Luis Buñuel	Director and screenwriter	Spain / Mexico

1970s

Year	Recipient	Profession	Nationality	Ref.
1970: Awarded as "Omaggio per il complesso dell'opera"
1970	Orson Welles	Filmmaker / Actor	United States
1971–present: Awarded as "Leone d'oro alla carriera"
1971	Ingmar Bergman	Filmmaker	Sweden
	Marcel Carné	Filmmaker	France
	John Ford	Filmmaker	United States
1972	Charlie Chaplin	Filmmaker / Actor / Comedian	United Kingdom
	Anatoli Golovnya	Cinematographer	Soviet Union
	Billy Wilder	Filmmaker	Austria / United States
1973	No award given[a]			[5]
1974 1975 1976	No award given[b]			[6]
1977	No award given[c]			[6]
1978	No award given[d]			[6]

1980s

Year	Recipient	Profession	Nationality	Ref.
1982	Alessandro Blasetti	Filmmaker	Italy
	Luis Buñuel	Filmmaker	Spain / Mexico
	Frank Capra	Filmmaker	Italy / United States
	George Cukor	Filmmaker	United States
	Jean-Luc Godard	Filmmaker	France / Switzerland
	Alexander Kluge	Filmmaker	Germany
	Akira Kurosawa	Filmmaker	Japan
	Michael Powell	Filmmaker	United Kingdom
	Satyajit Ray	Filmmaker	India
	King Vidor	Filmmaker	United States
	Sergei Yutkevich	Filmmaker	Soviet Union
	Cesare Zavattini	Screenwriter	Italy
1983	Michelangelo Antonioni	Filmmaker
1985	Federico Fellini	Filmmaker	Italy
1986	Paolo and Vittorio Taviani	Filmmakers
1987	Luigi Comencini	Filmmaker
	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Filmmaker	United States
1988	Joris Ivens	Documentary filmmaker	Netherlands
1989	Robert Bresson	Filmmaker	France

1990s

Year	Recipient	Profession	Nationality	Ref.
1990	Miklós Jancsó	Filmmaker	Hungary
	Marcello Mastroianni	Actor	Italy
1991	Mario Monicelli	Filmmaker
	Gian Maria Volonté	Actor
1992	Francis Ford Coppola	Filmmaker	United States
	Jeanne Moreau	Actress / Director	France
	Paolo Villaggio	Actor / comedian / screenwriter	Italy
1993	Claudia Cardinale	Actress
	Robert De Niro	Actor / producer	United States
	Roman Polanski	Filmmaker	France / Poland
	Steven Spielberg	Filmmaker	United States
1994	Suso Cecchi d'Amico	Screenwriter	Italy
	Ken Loach	Director	United Kingdom
	Al Pacino	Actor	United States
1995	Woody Allen	Filmmaker / Actor / Comedian
	Giuseppe De Santis	Director / screenwriter	Italy
	Goffredo Lombardo	Producer
	Ennio Morricone	Composer / conductor
	Alain Resnais	Filmmaker	France
	Martin Scorsese	Filmmaker	United States
	Alberto Sordi	Actor / Director	Italy
	Monica Vitti	Actress
1996	Robert Altman	Filmmaker	United States
	Vittorio Gassman	Actor	Italy
	Dustin Hoffman	Actor	United States
	Michèle Morgan	Actress	France
1997	Gérard Depardieu	Actor		[7]
	Stanley Kubrick	Filmmaker	United States
	Alida Valli	Actress	Italy
1998	Warren Beatty	Actor / Filmmaker	United States	[8]
	Sophia Loren	Actress	Italy
	Andrzej Wajda	Filmmaker	Poland
1999	Jerry Lewis	Comedian / Actor	United States

2000s

Year	Recipient	Profession	Nationality	Ref.
2000	Clint Eastwood	Actor / Filmmaker	United States	[9]
2001	Éric Rohmer	Filmmaker / Critic	France	[10]
2002	Dino Risi	Filmmaker	Italy	[11]
2003	Dino De Laurentiis	Producer	Italy / United States	[12]
	Omar Sharif	Actor	Egypt
2004	Stanley Donen	Filmmaker / choreographer	United States	[13]
	Manoel de Oliveira	Filmmaker	Portugal
2005	Hayao Miyazaki	Filmmaker / Animator	Japan	[14]
	Stefania Sandrelli	Actress	Italy	[15]
2006	David Lynch	Filmmaker	United States	[16]
2007	Tim Burton	Filmmaker		[17]
2008	Ermanno Olmi	Filmmaker / Cinematographer	Italy	[18]
2009	John Lasseter[e]	Director / Producer / Animator	United States	[19]

2010s

Year	Recipient	Profession	Nationality	Ref.
2010	John Woo	Filmmaker	Hong Kong	[20]
2011	Marco Bellocchio	Filmmaker / Actor	Italy	[21]
2012	Francesco Rosi	Director / screenwriter		[22]
2013	William Friedkin	Filmmaker	United States	[23]
2014	Thelma Schoonmaker	Film editor		[24]
	Frederick Wiseman	Documentary filmmaker		[25]
2015	Bertrand Tavernier	Filmmaker / critic	France	[26]
2016	Jean-Paul Belmondo	Actor		[27]
	Jerzy Skolimowski	Filmmaker	Poland	[28]
2017	Jane Fonda	Actress / activist	United States	[29]
	Robert Redford	Actor / Filmmaker		[30]
2018	David Cronenberg	Filmmaker	Canada	[31]
	Vanessa Redgrave	Actress / activist	United Kingdom	[32]
2019	Pedro Almodóvar	Filmmaker	Spain	[33]
	Julie Andrews	Actress	United Kingdom	[34]

2020s

Year	Recipient	Profession	Nationality	Ref.
2020	Ann Hui	Filmmaker / actress	Hong Kong	[35]
	Tilda Swinton	Actress	United Kingdom	[36]
2021	Roberto Benigni	Filmmaker / Actor / Comedian	Italy	[37]
	Jamie Lee Curtis	Actress	United States	[38]
2022	Catherine Deneuve	Actress	France	[39]
	Paul Schrader	Filmmaker	United States	[40]
2023	Liliana Cavani	Filmmaker	Italy	[41]
	Tony Leung Chiu-wai	Actor	Hong Kong	[42]
2024	Sigourney Weaver	Actress	United States	[43]
	Peter Weir	Filmmaker	Australia	[44]
2025	Werner Herzog	Filmmaker / Documentarian	Germany	[45]
	Kim Novak	Actress	United States	[46]

See also

• Academy Honorary Award
• Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
• Guldbagge Honorary Award
• Honorary César
• Honorary Golden Bear
• Honorary Goya Award
• Nastro d'Argento Lifetime Achievement Award

Notes

1. the festival was not organized this year.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. the festival was not organized this year.
5. Presented to Lasseter alongside the Disney•Pixar directors Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich.