26th Venice International Film Festival

The 26th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 6 September 1965.^[1]

Italian poet Carlo Bo was the Jury President. The Golden Lion winner was Sandra directed by Luchino Visconti.

• Carlo Bo, Italia poet - Jury President^[2]
• Lewis Jacobs, American filmmaker
• Nikolai Lebedev, Soviet actor
• Jay Leyda, American filmmaker
• Max Lippmann, West German
• Edgar Morin, French philosopher
• Rune Waldekranz, Swedish producer

• Gertrud by Carl Theodor Dreyer

• Golden Lion: Sandra by Luchino Visconti
• Special Jury Prize:
  • I Am Twenty by Marlen Khutsiyev
  • Simon of the Desert by Luis Buñuel
  • Modiga mindre män by Leif Krantz
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Toshirô Mifune by Red Beard
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Annie Girardot by Three Rooms in Manhattan
• Best First Work: Faithfulness by Pyotr Todorovsky

• Simon of the Desert by Luis Buñuel
• Gertrud by Carl Theodor Dreyer

• Red Beard by Akira Kurosawa

• Twenty Hours by Zoltán Fábri

• Utek do vetru by Václav Táborsky
• Tjorven, Båtsman och Moses by Olle Hellbom
• The Snowy Day by Mal Wittman
• Enter Hamlet by School of Visual Art California
• Best Film about Adolescence: The Searching Eye by Saul Bass
• Best Documentary: Le isole incantante by Aleksandr Zguridi
• Best Documentary - Television: Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy by Liliana Cavani
• Best Children's Film - Television: Charley by Jimmy Murakami & Alan Ball

• Grand Prize: Jack Frost by Aleksandr Rou
• Silver Medal: Daylight Robbery by Darryl Read

• The Whacky Mixed-Up Carabiniers by Felix G. Palmer

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival 1965 Awards on IMDb