Golden Leopard

Golden Leopard
Golden Leopard
Awarded for	Best film
Country	Switzerland
Presented by	Locarno International Film Festival
First awarded	1968
Last awarded	2024
Currently held by	Toxic by Saulė Bliuvaitė

The Golden Leopard (Italian: Pardo d'oro) is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to be entered in the competitive selection. The winning films are chosen by a jury. The award went under many names until it was named the Golden Leopard in 1968. The festival was not held in 1951 and the prize was not awarded in 1956 and 1982. As of 2024 René Clair is the only director to have won the award twice, winning in the first two years of the festival.

Winners

For the first two years the award was known as Best Film (Miglior film). Then for several years the award went by the name of Grand Prize (Gran premio). In 1950 and 1951 the award was from the International Jury of Journalists (Giuria internazionale dei giornalisti); in 1953 and 1954 the award was from the International Jury of Critics (Giuria internazionale della critica); in 1955 the award was from the Jury of Swiss-Italian Radio (Giuria della Radio della Svizzera Italiana); in 1957 the award was from the Jury of the Swiss Association of Cinematographic Press (Giuria dell'Associazione Svizzera della stampa cinematografica). In 1958 and 1960–65 the award was the Golden Sail (Vela d'oro). In 1959 it was the Prize for Best Direction (Premio per la migliore regia). In 1966 and 1967 the prize was the Grand Prize of the Jury of Youth (Gran premio della Giuria dei giovani). Finally, it became the Golden Leopard in 1968.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Year	English Film	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
1946	And Then There Were None		René Clair	United States
1947	Man About Town	Le silence est d'or	René Clair, Robert Pirosh	France, United States
1948	Germany Year Zero	Germania, anno zero	Roberto Rossellini	Italy, France, Germany
1949	The Farm of Seven Sins	La ferme des sept péchés	Jean Devaivre	France
1950	When Willie Comes Marching Home		John Ford	United States
1952	Hunted		Charles Crichton	United Kingdom
1953	Julius Caesar		David Bradley	United States
	The Composer Glinka	Композитор Глинка	Grigori Aleksandrov	Soviet Union
	The Glass Wall		Maxwell Shane	United States
1954	Gate of Hell	地獄門	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Japan
	The Sheep Has Five Legs	Le mouton à cinq pattes	Henri Verneuil	France, United States
	Rotation		Wolfgang Staudte	East Germany
1955	Carmen Jones		Otto Preminger	United States
1955	The Emperor's Nightingale	Císařův slavík	Jiří Trnka	Czechoslovakia
1957	Il grido		Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy, United States
1958	Ten North Frederick		Philip Dunne	United States
1959	Killer's Kiss		Stanley Kubrick	United States
1960	Il bell'Antonio		Mauro Bolognini	Italy
1961	Fires on the Plain	野火	Kon Ichikawa	Japan
1962	The Winner	Un cœur gros comme ça	François Reichenbach	France
1963	Transport from Paradise	Transport z ráje	Zbyněk Brynych	Czechoslovakia
1964	Black Peter	Černý Petr	Miloš Forman	Czechoslovakia
1965	Four in the Morning		Anthony Simmons	United Kingdom
1966	Everyday Courage	Každý den odvahu	Evald Schorm	Czechoslovakia
1967	Entranced Earth	Terra em Transe	Glauber Rocha	Brazil
1968	The Visionaries	I visionari	Maurizio Ponzi	Italy
1969	Charles, Dead or Alive	Charles mort ou vif	Alain Tanner	Switzerland
	Those Who Wear Glasses	Szemüvegesek	Sándor Simó	Hungary
	Three Sad Tigers	Tres tristes tigres	Raoul Ruiz	Chile
	No Path Through Fire	В огне брода нет	Gleb Panfilov	Soviet Union
1970	End of the Road		Aram Avakian	United States
	Lilika	Лилика	Branko Pleša	Yugoslavia
	This Transient Life	無常	Akio Jissoji	Japan
	Soleil O	Soleil Ô	Med Hondo	Mauritania, France
1971	They Have Changed Their Face	Hanno cambiato faccia	Corrado Farina	Italy
	On the Point of Death	In punto di morte	Mario Garriba	Italy
	The Friends	Les amis	Gérard Blain	France
	Private Road		Barney Platts-Mills	United Kingdom
	Signs on the Road	Znaki na drodze	Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski	Poland
1972	Bleak Moments		Mike Leigh	United Kingdom
1973	The Illumination	Iluminacja	Krzysztof Zanussi	Poland
1974	25 Fireman's Street	Tűzoltó utca 25.	István Szabó	Hungary
1975	The Son of Amir Is Dead	Le fils d'Amr est mort	Jean-Jacques Andrien	Belgium, France, Tunisia
1976	The Big Night	Le grand soir	Francis Reusser	Switzerland
1977	Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison	Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere	Lino Del Fra	Italy
1978	The Idlers of the Fertile Valley	Οι Τεμπέληδες της εύφορης κοιλάδας	Nikos Panayotopoulos	Greece
1979	The Herd	Sürü	Zeki Ökten, Yılmaz Güney	Turkey
1980	To Love the Damned	Maledetti vi amerò	Marco Tullio Giordana	Italy
1981	The Vicious Circle	Chakra	Rabindra Dharmaraj	India
1983	The Princess	Adj király katonát!	Pál Erdöss	Hungary
1984	Stranger Than Paradise		Jim Jarmusch	United States, West Germany
1985	Alpine Fire	Höhenfeuer	Fredi M. Murer	Switzerland
1986	Lake of Constance	Jezioro Bodeńskie	Janusz Zaorski	Poland
1987	The Jester	O Bobo	José Álvaro Morais	Portugal
1988	Distant Voices, Still Lives		Terence Davies	United Kingdom
1988	Schmetterlinge		Wolfgang Becker	West Germany
1989	Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?	달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은?	Bae Yong-kyun	South Korea
1990	Accidental Waltz	Случайный вальс	Svetlana Proskurina	Soviet Union
1991	Johnny Suede		Tom DiCillo	France, United States, Switzerland
1992	Autumn Moon	秋月	Clara Law	Hong Kong, Japan
1993	The Place on a Grey Tricorne	Azghyin ushtykzyn'azaby	Yermek Shinarbayev	Kazakhstan
1994	Khomreh	خمره	Ebrahim Forouzesh	Iran
1995	Raï		Thomas Gilou	France
1996	Nenette and Boni	Nénette et Boni	Claire Denis	France
1997	The Mirror	آینه	Jafar Panahi	Iran
1998	Mr. Zhao	趙先生	Lü Yue	China, Hong Kong
1999	Skin of Man, Heart of Beast	Peau d’homme, cœur de bête	Hélène Angel	France
2000	Father	冤家父子	Shuo Wang	China
2001	Off to the Revolution by a 2CV	Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli	Maurizio Sciarra	Italy
2002	The Longing	Das Verlangen	Iain Dilthey	Germany
2003	Khamosh Pani	خاموش پانی	Sabiha Sumar	Pakistan, France, Germany
2004	Private		Saverio Costanzo	Italy
2005	Nine Lives		Rodrigo García	United States
2006	Das Fräulein		Andrea Staka	Switzerland, Germany
2007	The Rebirth	愛の予感	Masahiro Kobayashi	Japan
2008	Parque Vía		Enrique Rivero	Mexico
2009	She, a Chinese		Xiaolu Guo	United Kingdom, France, Germany, China
2010	Winter Vacation	寒假	Hongqi Li	China
2011	Back to Stay	Abrir puertas y ventanas	Milagros Mumenthaler	Argentina, Switzerland, Netherlands
2012	The Girl from Nowhere	La fille de nulle part	Jean-Claude Brisseau	France
2013	Story of My Death	Història de la meva mort	Albert Serra	Spain, France
2014	From What Is Before	Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon	Lav Diaz	Philippines
2015	Right Now, Wrong Then^[5]	지금은 맞고 그때는 틀리다	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
2016	Godless	Безбог	Ralitza Petrova	Bulgaria, Denmark, France^[6]
2017	Mrs. Fang	方绣英	Wang Bing	China, France, Germany^[7]
2018	A Land Imagined	幻土	Yeo Siew Hua	Singapore, France, Netherlands^[8]
2019	Vitalina Varela		Pedro Costa	Portugal
2021	Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash	Seperti Dendam, Rindu Harus Dibayar Tuntas	Edwin	Indonesia, Singapore, Germany
2022	Rule 34	Regra 34	Julia Murat	Brazil, France^[9]
2023	Critical Zone	منطقه بحرانی	Ali Ahmadzadeh	Iran, Germany^[10]
2024	Toxic	Akiplėša	Saulė Bliuvaitė	Lithuania^[11]

References

^ "7th Locarno Film Festival". Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^ "8th Locarno Film Festival". Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^ "9th Locarno Film Festival". Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^ "10th Locarno Film Festival". Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^ "Palmarès 2015". Locarno.
^ "Palmarès 2016". Locarno.
^ Anderson, Ariston (12 August 2017). "Locarno Festival: Chinese Documentary 'Mrs. Fang' Wins Golden Leopard". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
^ Nordine, Michael (11 August 2018). "Locarno Film Festival 2018 Awards: 'A Land Imagined' Takes Home the Golden Leopard". IndieWire. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
^ Lodge, Guy (13 August 2022). "Provocative Brazilian Film 'Rule 34' Wins the Top Prize at Locarno Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
^ "The Pardo d'oro at Locarno76 goes to Mantagheye bohrani (Critical…". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
^ "Locarno77: The Pardo d'Oro goes to Akiplėša (Toxic) by Saulė Bliuvaitė, a striking vision of the teenage female body as a battleground". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved 17 August 2024.

External links

[1] "7th Locarno Film Festival". Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.

[2] "8th Locarno Film Festival". Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.

[3] "9th Locarno Film Festival". Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.

[4] "10th Locarno Film Festival". Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.

[5] "Palmarès 2015". Locarno.

[6] "Palmarès 2016". Locarno.

[7] Anderson, Ariston (12 August 2017). "Locarno Festival: Chinese Documentary 'Mrs. Fang' Wins Golden Leopard". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 August 2017.

[8] Nordine, Michael (11 August 2018). "Locarno Film Festival 2018 Awards: 'A Land Imagined' Takes Home the Golden Leopard". IndieWire. Retrieved 11 August 2018.

[9] Lodge, Guy (13 August 2022). "Provocative Brazilian Film 'Rule 34' Wins the Top Prize at Locarno Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved 13 August 2022.

[10] "The Pardo d'oro at Locarno76 goes to Mantagheye bohrani (Critical…". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved 12 August 2023.

[11] "Locarno77: The Pardo d'Oro goes to Akiplėša (Toxic) by Saulė Bliuvaitė, a striking vision of the teenage female body as a battleground". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved 17 August 2024.

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v t e Golden Leopard winning films
1946–1975	And Then There Were None (1946) Man About Town (1947) Germany, Year Zero (1948) The Farm of Seven Sins (1949) When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) Hunted (1952) Julius Caesar (1953) The Composer Glinka (1953) The Glass Wall (1953) Prince Bayaya (1954) Gate of Hell (1954) Wild Fruit (1954) Rotation (1954) The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954) Carmen Jones (1955) The Emperor's Nightingale (1955) Il Grido (1957) Ten North Frederick (1958) Killer's Kiss (1959) Il bell'Antonio (1960) Fires on the Plain (1961) The Winner (1962) Transport from Paradise (1963) Black Peter (1964) Four in the Morning (1965) Courage for Every Day (1966) Entranced Earth (1967) The Visionaries (1968) Charles, Dead or Alive (1969) Those Who Wear Glasses (1969) Three Sad Tigers (1969) No Path Through Fire (1969) Lilika (1970) Mujo (1970) Soleil O (1970) End of the Road (1970) On the Point of Death (1971) They Have Changed Their Face (1971) The Friends (1971) Private Road (1971) Znaki na drodze (1971) Bleak Moments (1972) The Illumination (1973) Tűzoltó utca 25. (1974) The Son of Amir Is Dead (1975)
1976–2000	The Big Night (1976) Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977) The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978) The Herd (1979) To Love the Damned (1980) Chakra (1981) The Princess (1983) Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Alpine Fire (1985) Jezioro Bodeńskie (1986) O Bobo (1987) Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Schmetterlinge (1988) Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989) Accidental Waltz (1990) Johnny Suede (1991) Autumn Moon (1992) The Place on a Grey Tricorne (1993) Khomreh (1994) Raï (1995) Nénette et Boni (1996) The Mirror (1997) Mr. Zhao (1998) Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (1999) Father (2000)
2001–present	Off to the Revolution by a 2CV (2001) The Longing (2002) Khamosh Pani (2003) Private (2004) Nine Lives (2005) Das Fräulein (2006) The Rebirth (2007) Parque via (2008) She, a Chinese (2009) Winter Vacation (2010) Back to Stay (2011) The Girl from Nowhere (2012) Story of My Death (2013) From What Is Before (2014) Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) Godless (2016) Mrs. Fang (2017) A Land Imagined (2018) Vitalina Varela (2019) Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021) Regra 34 (2022) Critical Zone (2023) Toxic (2024)