
	Golden Lion
	...Best First Work
	Grand Special Jury Prize
	Best Actress
	Special Mention
	FIPRESCI Prize
	Pasinetti Award
	...Best Film
	...Best Actor
	...Best Actress
	Pietro Bianchi Award



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Venice Film Festival: 1981

Golden Lion

Date:	2 September - 11 September
Jury:	Italo Calvino (Italy) (head of jury); Luigi Comencini (Italy); Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal); Marie-Christine Barrault (France); Peter Bogdanovich (USA); Smaďl Lakhdar-Hamina (Algeria); Jesús Fernández Santos (Spain); Sergei Solovyov (Soviet Union); Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland)


Winner:
	Bleierne Zeit, Die (1981) - Margarethe von Trotta

Best First Work


Winner:
	Sjecas li se Dolly Bell (1981) - Emir Kusturica - Emir Kusturica was in the army at the time being. Military officials gave him a special 24h permission to leave Yugoslavia and receive the award in Venice.

Grand Special Jury Prize


Winners:
	Eles Não Usam Black-Tie (1981) - Leon Hirszman Sogni d'oro (1981) - Nanni Moretti

Best Actress


Winners:
	Bleierne Zeit, Die (1981) - Jutta Lampe Bleierne Zeit, Die (1981) - Barbara Sukowa

Special Mention


Winners:
	Forfølgelsen (1981) - Anja Breien - For historical reconstruction. Postriziny (1981) - Jirí Menzel - For humor, taste and optimistic vitality.

FIPRESCI Prize


Winners:
	Bleierne Zeit, Die (1981) - Margarethe von Trotta Eles Não Usam Black-Tie (1981) - Leon Hirszman Sjecas li se Dolly Bell (1981) - Emir Kusturica

Pasinetti Award

Best Film


Winner:
	Prince of the City (1981) - Sidney Lumet

Best Actor


Winner:
	True Confessions (1981) - Robert Duvall

Best Actress


Winner:
	Forfølgelsen (1981) - Lil Terselius

Pietro Bianchi Award


Awarded to:
	Eduardo De Filippo