The Golden Lion is the highest prize at the Venice Film Festival, the oldest film festival in the world, which was founded in 1932. The lion refers to the winged lion of St Mark, the symbol of Venice. The award took this name in 1949, replacing earlier prizes such as the Mussolini Cup, and it has since been given to a long list of notable films. Early winners included Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, which helped introduce Japanese cinema to Western audiences, and later ones included Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, Alfonso Cuarón's Roma and Todd Phillips's Joker. The festival also gives honorary Golden Lions for lifetime achievement.
Before and after
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- 6 August 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- from January 1978 to February 1979Iranian Revolution
- from 25 December 1979 to 15 February 1989Soviet-Afghan War
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