36th Venice International Film Festival

36th Venice International Film Festival
	Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Festival date	24 August – 5 September 1979
Website	Website
Venice Film Festival chronology
	37th 35th

The 36th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 5 September 1979.

There was no jury because from 1969 to 1979 the festival was not competitive.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Official Selections

Le passe-montagne by Jean-François Stévenin
La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua by Assia Djebar
- Honorable Mention: Le vieil Anaï by Jean Rouch

Best Film:
- Autumn Marathon by Georgiy Daneliya
- Saint Jack by Peter Bogdanovich
Best Actor: Yevgeny Leonov for Autumn Marathon
Best Actress: Nobuko Otowa for The Strangling

^ "Venice Biennale: the Venice Film Festival-History and facts of the world's oldest Film Festival". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
^ "The 1970′s". Retrieved October 8, 2013.
^ "Juries for the 1970′s". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
^ "Venice Film Fete in Quest of Glamour". The New York Times. August 28, 1979. Retrieved April 24, 2020. Carlo Lizzani, leftist director and the festival's new president, has not so far managed to restore the "Golden Lion" awards presented at Venice until 1968