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
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 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 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 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 Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin United States Moulin Rouge John Huston United Kingdom Naked PassionLa 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 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 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 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
References
External links
Venice Film Festival 1953 Awards on IMDb