21st Venice International Film Festival
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Tomorrow Is My Turn |
| Festival date | 24 August – 7 September 1960 |
| Website | Website |
The 21st annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 7 September 1960.[1]
French writer Marcel Achard was the Jury President for the main competition. The Golden Lion was awarded to Tomorrow Is My Turn directed André Cayatte.
Jury
- Marcel Achard, French writer - Jury President[2]
- Peter Baker, British film critic
- Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker
- Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet filmmaker and actor
- Louis Chauvet, French writer and journalist
- Antonio Pagliaro, Italian philosopher of language
- Jaime Potenze, Argentinian film critic
- Mario Praz, Italian film critic
- Samuel Steinman, American film critic
- Jerzy Toeplitz, Polish film scholar
- Arturo Tofanelli, Italian writer
Official Sections
The following films were selected to be screened:[3]
Main Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adua and Her Friends | Adua e le compagne | Antonio Pietrangeli | Italy |
| The Apartment | Billy Wilder | United States | |
| Atomic War Bride | Rat | Veljko Bulajic | Yugoslavia |
| Baltic Skies | Балтийское небо | Vladimir Vengerov | Soviet Union |
| Brainwashed | Schachnovelle | Gerd Oswald | West Germany |
| Holubice | František Vláčil | Czechoslovakia | |
| The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | 第一部 純愛篇／第二部 激怒篇 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan |
| Knights of the Teutonic Order | Krzyzacy | Aleksander Ford | Poland |
| Long Night in 1943 | La lunga notte del '43 | Florestano Vancini | Italy |
| Rocco and His Brothers | Rocco e i suoi fratelli | Luchino Visconti | Italy, France |
| Silver Spoon Set | I delfini | Francesco Maselli | Italy |
| Stowaway in the Sky | Le Voyage en ballon | Albert Lamorisse | France |
| Tomorrow Is My Turn | Le Passage du Rhin | André Cayatte | France |
| Tunes of Glory | Ronald Neame | United Kingdom | |
Out of Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Tights | 1-2-3-4 ou Les Collants noirs | Terence Young | France, Portugal |
| Pollyanna | David Swift | United States | |
Informativa
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben-Hur | William Wyler | United States | |
| Bernadette of Lourdes | Il suffit d'aimer | Robert Darène | France |
| Be True Until Death | Légy jó mindhalálig | László Ranódy | Hungary |
| A Certain Major | Alázatosan jelentem | Mihály Szemes | |
| Ceneri della memoria | Alberto Caldana | Italy | |
| El Cochecito | Marco Ferreri | Spain | |
| Culpable | Hugo del Carril | Argentina | |
| Higher Principle | Vyssí princip | Jiří Krejčík | Czechoslovakia |
| Irohanihoheto | いろはにほへと | Noboru Nakamura | Japan |
| Kapo | Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy | |
| Key Witness | Phil Karlson | United States | |
| El Lazarillo de Tormes | César Fernández Ardavín | Spain | |
| Leili i Medzhnun | Лейли и Меджнун | Tatyana Berezantseva, Gafor Valamatzade | Soviet Union |
| Mad Years | Les années folles | Mirea Alexandresco, Henri Torrent | France |
| Maria Stuart | Alfred Stöger | West Germany | |
| Maribel and the Strange Family | Maribel y la extraña familia | José María Forqué | Spain |
| Never on Sunday | Pote tin Kyriaki | Jules Dassin | Greece |
| Pay or Die | Richard Wilson | United States | |
| A Secret Rendezvous | 密会 | Kô Nakahira | Japan |
| Shadows | John Cassavetes | United States | |
| Toro negro | Benito Alazraki | Mexico | |
| Towards Ecstasy | Vers l'extase | René Wheeler | France |
| Trapped by Fear | Les distractions | Jacques Dupont | |
| Vento del sud | Enzo Provenzale | Italy | |
| The Wedding Day | Baishey Shravana | Mrinal Sen | India |
| When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | 女が階段を上る時 | Mikio Naruse | Japan |
Official Awards
- Golden Lion: Tomorrow Is My Turn by André Cayatte
- Special Jury Prize: Rocco and His Brothers by Luchino Visconti
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: John Mills for Tunes of Glory
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment
- Best First Work: Long Night in 1943 by Florestano Vancini
Independent Awards
San Giorgio Prize
FIPRESCI Prize
OCIC Award
Pasinetti Award
- The Human Condition: No Greater Love by Masaki Kobayashi
- Parallel Sections: Shadows by John Cassavetes
Lion of San Marco
- The Musicians by Kazimierz Karabasz
References
- ^ "The 1960s". Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "Juries for the 1960s". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "21. Mostra Internazionale del Cinema". labiennale.org. Retrieved 30 June 2025.