Volpi Cup

The Volpi Cups are the principal awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival. Formal acting awards were introduced in the second festival (1934). Initially they were called Great Gold Medals of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment. The name Volpi Cup was introduced the following year. The list of winners below also includes the less formal audience-voted awards from the first festival (1932). No awards were assigned between 1969 and 1979. In 1980 best actor awards were reinstalled omitting the Volpi Cups until 1988, when Volpi Cups were reestablished. In the mid-1990s awards were also given to supporting actors and actresses.

The cup is named in honor of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, the founder of the Venice Film Festival.

Awards

Year	Best actor(s)	Best actress(es)	Best supporting actor	Best supporting actress	Notes
1932*	Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde	Helen Hayes in The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1934	Wallace Beery in Viva Villa!	Katharine Hepburn in Little Women
1935	Pierre Blanchar in Crime et châtiment	Paula Wessely in Episode
1936	Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur	Annabella in Veille d'armes
1937	Emil Jannings in Der Herrscher	Bette Davis in Marked Woman and Kid Galahad
1938	Leslie Howard in Pygmalion	Norma Shearer in Marie Antoinette
1939–1940	not assigned	not assigned
1941	Ermete Zacconi in Don Buonaparte	Luise Ullrich in Annelie
1942	Fosco Giachetti in Bengazi	Kristina Soderbaum in Die goldene Stadt
1946	not assigned	not assigned
1947	Pierre Fresnay in Monsieur Vincent	Anna Magnani in L'onorevole Angelina
1948	Ernst Deutsch in Der Prozess	Jean Simmons in Hamlet
1949	Joseph Cotten in Portrait of Jennie	Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit
1950	Sam Jaffe in The Asphalt Jungle	Eleanor Parker in Caged
1951	Jean Gabin in La Nuit est Mon Royaume	Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire
1952	Fredric March in Death of a Salesman	not assigned			The Jury officially announces the award is not assigned to Ingrid Bergman in Europa ’51 for cause of dubbing in the Italian original version
1953	Henri Vilbert in Le Bon Dieu Sans Confession	Lilli Palmer in The Four Poster
1954	Jean Gabin in L'air De Paris and Touchez Pas au Grisbi	not assigned
1955	ex aeqo to Kenneth More in The Deep Blue Sea and Curd Jürgens in Les Héros Sont Fatigués and Des Teufels General	not assigned
1956	Bourvil in La Traversée de Paris	Maria Schell in Gervaise
1957	Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain	Dzidra Ritenberga in Malva
1958	Alec Guinness in The Horse's Mouth	Sophia Loren in The Black Orchid
1959	James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder	Madeleine Robinson in À Double Tour
1960	John Mills in Tunes of Glory	Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment
1961	Toshirō Mifune in Yojimbo	Suzanne Flon in Tu ne Tueras Point
1962	Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz	Emmanuelle Riva in Thérèse Desqueyroux
1963	Albert Finney in Tom Jones	Delphine Seyrig in Muriel ou le temps d'un retour
1964	Tom Courtenay in King and Country	Harriet Andersson in Älskande par (Loving Couples)
1965	Toshirō Mifune in Red beard	Annie Girardot in Trois chambres à Manhattan
1966	Jacques Perrin in La busca and Un Uomo a Metà	Natalya Arinbasarova in Pervyj Uchitel (The first teacher)
1967	Ljubisa Samardzic in Jutro	Shirley Knight in Dutchman
1968	John Marley in Faces	Laura Betti in Teorema
1988	ex aequo to Don Ameche & Joe Mantegna in Things Change	ex aequo to Shirley Maclaine in Madame Sousatzka and Isabelle Huppert in Une Affaire De Femmes
1989	ex aequo to Marcello Mastroianni & Massimo Troisi in Che Ora È?	ex aequo to Peggy Ashcroft and Geraldine James in She's Been Away
1990	Oleg Borisov in The Only Witness	Gloria Münchmeyer in La Luna en el Espejo
1991	River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho	Tilda Swinton in Edward II
1992	Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross	Gong Li in Qiu Ju Da Guan Si
1993	Fabrizio Bentivoglio in Un'Anima Divisa in Due	Juliette Binoche in Trois Coleurs: Bleu	Marcello Mastroianni in Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil	Anna Bonaiuto in Dove siete? Io sono qui	Special award to the ensemble cast of Short Cuts
1994	Xia Yu in Yangguang Canlan de Rizi	Maria de Medeiros in Três Irmãos	Roberto Citran in Il toro	Vanessa Redgrave in Little Odessa
1995	Götz George in Der Totmacher	ex aequo to Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie	Ian Hart in Nothing Personal	Isabella Ferrari in Romanzo di un giovane povero
1996	Liam Neeson in Michael Collins	Victoire Thivisol in Ponette	Chris Penn in The Funeral
1997	Wesley Snipes in One Night Stand	Robin Tunney in Niagara, Niagara
1998	Sean Penn in Hurlyburly	Catherine Deneuve in Place Vendôme
1999	Jim Broadbent in Topsy-Turvy	Nathalie Baye in Une Liaison Pornographique
2000	Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls	Rose Byrne in The Goddess of 1967
2001	Luigi Lo Cascio in Luce Dei Miei Occhi	Sandra Ceccarelli in Luce Dei Miei Occhi
2002	Stefano Accorsi in Un Viaggio Chiamato Amore	Julianne Moore in Far From Heaven
2003	Sean Penn in 21 Grams	Katja Riemann in Rosenstrasse
2004	Javier Bardem in Mar Adentro	Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake
2005	David Strathairn in Good Night, and Good Luck	Giovanna Mezzogiorno in The Beast in the Heart
2006	Ben Affleck in Hollywoodland	Helen Mirren in The Queen
2007	Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
2008	Silvio Orlando in Giovanna's Father	Dominique Blanc in L'Autre
2009	Colin Firth in A Single Man	Kseniya Rappoport in The Double Hour
2010	Vincent Gallo in Essential Killing	Ariane Labed in Attenberg
2011	Michael Fassbender in Shame	Deanie Ip in A Simple Life

External links

• The Venice Film Festival at the IMDb
• Coppa Volpi for best actors since 1935 from "La Biennale" website