50th Venice International Film Festival

The 50th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 31 August to 11 September 1993.

Australian filmmaker Peter Weir was the Jury President of the main competition.

The Golden Lion winners were: Short Cuts directed by Robert Altman, and Three Colours: Blue directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Main Competition
The following people comprised the 1993 jury:
 * Peter Weir, Australian filmmaker - Jury President
 * Mohamed Camara, Guinean filmmaker and actor
 * Carla Gravina, Italian actress
 * James Ivory, British filmmaker and producer
 * Chen Kaige, Chinese filmmaker
 * Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian filmmaker
 * Abdulah Sidran, Bosnian writer
 * Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian filmmaker

Out of competition

 * The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
 * A Bronx Tale (Robert De Niro)
 * Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
 * The Secret of the Old Woods (Ermanno Olmi)
 * Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)

Special Screenings

 * Pursued (restored, Raoul Walsh)
 * La naissance de l'amour (Philippe Garrel)
 * Johnny Guitar (restored, Nicholas Ray)
 * Donersen Islic Cal (Orhan Oguz)
 * High Boot Benny (Joe Comerford)
 * Sono Kido Wo Tohtte (Kon Ichikawa)
 * Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian)
 * Fermière à Montfaucon (Éric Rohmer)
 * L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (Éric Rohmer)
 * Vigyazok (Sándor Sára)
 * The Hollow Men (Joseph Kay, John Yorick)
 * La estrategia del caracol (Sergio Cabrera)
 * Succede un quarantotto (Nicola Caracciolo, Valerio E. Marino)

Venetian Nights

 * L'Enfant lion (Patrick Grandperret)
 * Posse (Mario Van Peebles)
 * La madre muerta (Juanma Bajo Ulloa)
 * In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen)
 * Diki Vostok (Rachid Nougmanov)
 * What' s Love Got to Do with It (Brian Gibson)
 * The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
 * Boxing Helena (Jennifer Chambers Lynch)
 * Kalifornia (Dominic Sena)
 * Dave (Ivan Reitman)
 * Quattro bravi ragazzi (Claudio Camarca)

Italian Panorama

 * Il giorno di San Sebastiano (Pasquale Scimeca)
 * Condannato a nozze (Giuseppe Piccioni)
 * E quando lei morì fu lutto nazionale (Lucio Gaudino)
 * Portagli i miei saluti (Gianna Maria Garbelli)
 * Mille bolle blu (Leone Pompucci)
 * Lest (Giulio Base)

Window on Images

 * Zeit Der Goetter (Lutz Dammbeck)
 * Hercules Returns (David Parker)
 * Terre d' Avellaneda (Daniele Incalcaterra)
 * Strapped (Forest Whitaker)
 * Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family (Andrew Young, Susan Todd)
 * 80 Mq (C.Calvi, D.Castelli, L.D' Ascanio, L. Manfredi, I.Agosta)
 * Lettre pour l... (Roman Goupil)
 * Manhattan by Numbers (Amir Naderi)
 * Utopia, utopia, per piccina che tu sia (Umberto Marino)
 * Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard)
 * Metisse (Mathieu Kassovitz)
 * Bells from the Deep (Werner Herzog)
 * Memories & Dreams (Lynn Maree Milburn)
 * The Clean Up (Jane Weinstock)
 * Echoes of Time (Ian Rosenfeld)
 * L' écriture de Dieu (H.P.Schwerfel)
 * Der Fenster Putzer (Veit Helmer)
 * Le jour du bac (Thomas Bardinet)
 * The Obit Writer (Brian Cox)
 * Oreste a Tor Bella Monaca (Carolos Zonars)
 * Otonal (Maria Novaro)
 * Swan Song (Kenneth Branagh)

Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:
 * Il Tuffo by Massimo Martella (Italy)
 * Son of the Shark (Le fils du requin) by Agnès Merlet (France)
 * Moonlight Boy (Yue guang shao nian) by Yu Wei-Yen (Taiwan)
 * New Germany (Neues Deutschland) by Philip Gröning, Uwe Janson, Gerd Kroske, Dani Levy, Maris Pfeiffer (Germany)
 * Public Access by Bryan Singer (United States)
 * Suppli by Vincenzo Verdecchi (Italy)
 * Touchia by Rachid Benhadj (Algeria)

Main Competition

 * Golden Lion:
 * Short Cuts by Robert Altman
 * Three Colours: Blue by Krzysztof Kieślowski
 * Silver Lion: Kosh ba kosh by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
 * Grand Special Jury Prize: Bad Boy Bubby by Rolf de Heer
 * Golden Osella:
 * Best Cinematography: Slawomir Idziak for Three Colors: Blue
 * Best Music: Cheb Khaled for 1, 2, 3, Sun
 * Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Fabrizio Bentivoglio for Un'anima divisa in due
 * Best Supporting Actor: Marcello Mastroianni for 1, 2, 3, Sun
 * Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Juliette Binoche for Three Colors: Blue
 * Best Supporting Actress: Anna Bonaiuto for Dove siete? Io sono qui
 * Volpi Cup for Best Ensemble Cast: Short Cuts

Career Golden Lion

 * Claudia Cardinale
 * Robert De Niro
 * Roman Polanski
 * Steven Spielberg

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

 * Za zui zi by Miaomiao Liu

Pietro Bianchi Award

 * Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Elvira Notari Prize

 * Martin Scorsese and Michelle Pfeiffer for The Age of Innocence

Grand Prize of the European Academy

 * 1, 2, 3, Sun by Bertrand Blier

AIACE Award

 * La donna del moro by Mauro Borrelli
 * Fuori da Qui by Alessandro Tannoia