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	Silver Lion
	Special Jury Prize
	Volpi Cup
	...Best Actor
	...Best Actress
	Italian Film Critics...
	Absolute Grand Prize



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Venice Film Festival: 1954

Golden Lion

Date:	22 August - 7 September
Jury:	Ignazio Tranquilli (Italy) (head of jury); Bengt Idestam-Almquist (Sweden); Louis Chauvet (France); Carlos Fern�ndez Cuenca (Spain); Roger Manvell (UK); Mario Gromo (Italy); Pasquale Ojetti (Italy); Piero Regnoli (Italy); Filippo Sacchi (Italy)


Winner:
	Romeo and Juliet (1954) - Renato Castellani
Other In-Competition Films:
	Executive Suite (1954) - Robert Wise (I) Father Brown (1954) - Robert Hamer L'air de Paris (1954) - Marcel Carn� La romana (1954) - Luigi Zampa La strada (1954) - Federico Fellini On the Waterfront (1954) - Elia Kazan Sanshô dayû (1954) - Kenji Mizoguchi (I) Senso (1954) - Luchino Visconti Shichinin no samurai (1954) - Akira Kurosawa

Silver Lion


Winners:
	La strada (1954) - Federico Fellini On the Waterfront (1954) - Elia Kazan Sanshô dayû (1954) - Kenji Mizoguchi (I) Shichinin no samurai (1954) - Akira Kurosawa

Special Jury Prize


Winner:
	Executive Suite (1954) - William Holden (I); June Allyson; Barbara Stanwyck; Fredric March; Walter Pidgeon; Shelley Winters; Paul Douglas (I); Louis Calhern; Dean Jagger; Nina Foch; Tim Considine; William Phipps; Lucy Knoch; Edgar Stehli; Mary Adams (I); Virginia Brissac; Harry Shannon (I) - For ensemble acting.

Volpi Cup

Best Actor


Winner:
	L'air de Paris (1954) - Jean Gabin - Also for Touchez pas au grisbi (1954).

Best Actress


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Italian Film Critics Award


Winner:
	On the Waterfront (1954) - Elia Kazan

Absolute Grand Prize


Winner:
	The Back of Beyond (1954) - John Heyer