| Golden Leopard | |
| Awarded For: | Best film |
| Presenter: | Locarno International Film Festival |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Year: | 1968 |
| Year2: | 2024 |
| Holder: | Toxic by Saulė Bliuvaitė |
The Golden Leopard 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.
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 | data-sort-value="Clair" | United States | ||||
| 1947 | Man About Town | Le silence est d'or | data-sort-value="Clair" | René Clair, Robert Pirosh | France, United States | ||
| 1948 | Germany Year Zero | Germania, anno zero | data-sort-value="Rossellini" | Italy, France, Germany | |||
| 1949 | data-sort-value="Farm of S" | The Farm of Seven Sins | data-sort-value="Ferme" | La ferme des sept péchés | data-sort-value="Devaivre" | France | |
| 1950 | When Willie Comes Marching Home | data-sort-value="Ford" | United States | ||||
| 1952 | Hunted | data-sort-value="Crichton" | United Kingdom | ||||
| 1953 | Julius Caesar | data-sort-value="Bradley" | United States | ||||
| data-sort-value="Composer" | The Composer Glinka | Композитор Глинка | data-sort-value="Aleksandrov" | Soviet Union | |||
| The Glass Wall | data-sort-value="Shane" | United States | |||||
| 1954 | Gate of Hell | 地獄門 | data-sort-value="Kinugasa" | Japan | |||
| data-sort-value="Sheep" | The Sheep Has Five Legs | data-sort-value="Mouton" | Le mouton à cinq pattes | data-sort-value="Verneuil" | France, United States | ||
| Rotation | data-sort-value="Staudte" | East Germany | |||||
| 1955 | Carmen Jones | data-sort-value="Preminger" | United States | ||||
| data-sort-value="Good" | The Emperor's Nightingale | Císařův slavík | data-sort-value="Trnka" | Czechoslovakia | |||
| 1957 | Il grido | data-sort-value="Antonioni" | Italy, United States | ||||
| 1958 | Ten North Frederick | data-sort-value="Dunne" | Philip Dunne | United States | |||
| 1959 | Killer's Kiss | data-sort-value="Kubrick" | Stanley Kubrick | ||||
| 1960 | Il bell'Antonio | data-sort-value="Bolognini" | Italy | ||||
| 1961 | Fires on the Plain | 野火 | data-sort-value="Ichikawa" | Japan | |||
| 1962 | data-sort-value="Winner" | The Winner | data-sort-value="Coeur" | Un cœur gros comme ça | data-sort-value="Reichenbach" | France | |
| 1963 | Transport from Paradise | Transport z ráje | data-sort-value="Brynych" | Czechoslovakia | |||
| 1964 | Black Peter | Černý Petr | data-sort-value="Forman" | ||||
| 1965 | Four in the Morning | data-sort-value="Simmons" | United Kingdom | ||||
| 1966 | Everyday Courage | Každý den odvahu | data-sort-value="Schorm" | Czechoslovakia | |||
| 1967 | Entranced Earth | Terra em Transe | data-sort-value="Rocha" | Brazil | |||
| 1968 | data-sort-value="Visionaries" | The Visionaries | data-sort-value="Visionari" | I visionari | data-sort-value="Ponzi" | Italy | |
| 1969 | Charles, Dead or Alive | Charles mort ou vif | data-sort-value="Tanner" | Switzerland | |||
| Those Who Wear Glasses | Szemüvegesek | data-sort-value="Simo" | Hungary | ||||
| Three Sad Tigers | Tres tristes tigres | data-sort-value="Ruiz" | Chile | ||||
| No Path Through Fire | В огне брода нет | data-sort-value="Panfilov" | Soviet Union | ||||
| 1970 | End of the Road | data-sort-value="Avakian" | United States | ||||
| Lilika | Лилика | data-sort-value="Plesa" | Yugoslavia | ||||
| This Transient Life | 無常 | data-sort-value="Jissoji" | Japan | ||||
| Soleil O | Soleil Ô | data-sort-value="Hondo" | Mauritania, France | ||||
| 1971 | They Have Changed Their Face | Hanno cambiato faccia | data-sort-value="Farina" | Italy | |||
| On the Point of Death | In punto di morte | data-sort-value="Garriba" | |||||
| data-sort-value="Friends" | The Friends | data-sort-value="Amis" | Les amis | data-sort-value="Blain" | France | ||
| Private Road | data-sort-value="Platts-Mills" | United Kingdom | |||||
| Signs on the Road | Znaki na drodze | data-sort-value="Piotrovsky" | Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski | Poland | |||
| 1972 | Bleak Moments | data-sort-value="Leigh" | United Kingdom | ||||
| 1973 | data-sort-value="Illumination" | The Illumination | Iluminacja | data-sort-value="Zanussi" | Poland | ||
| 1974 | 25 Fireman's Street | Tűzoltó utca 25. | data-sort-value="Szabo" | Hungary | |||
| 1975 | data-sort-value="Son of A" | The Son of Amir Is Dead | data-sort-value="Fils d'A" | Le fils d'Amr est mort | data-sort-value="Andrien" | Belgium, France, Tunisia | |
| 1976 | data-sort-value="Big N" | The Big Night | data-sort-value="Grand S" | Le grand soir | data-sort-value="Reusser" | Switzerland | |
| 1977 | Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere | data-sort-value="Del Fra" | Italy | ||||
| 1978 | data-sort-value="Idlers" | The Idlers of the Fertile Valley | data-sort-value="Tembelides" | Οι Τεμπέληδες της εύφορης κοιλάδας | data-sort-value="Panayotopoulos" | Nikos Panayotopoulos | Greece |
| 1979 | data-sort-value="Herd" | The Herd | Sürü | data-sort-value="Okten" | Turkey | ||
| 1980 | To Love the Damned | Maledetti vi amerò | data-sort-value="Giordana" | Italy | |||
| 1981 | The Vicious Circle | Chakra | data-sort-value="Dharmaraj" | Rabindra Dharmaraj | India | ||
| 1983 | data-sort-value="Princess" | The Princess | Adj király katonát! | data-sort-value="Erdoss" | Pál Erdöss | Hungary | |
| 1984 | Stranger Than Paradise | data-sort-value="Jarmusch" | Jim Jarmusch | United States, West Germany | |||
| 1985 | Alpine Fire | Höhenfeuer | data-sort-value="Murer" | Switzerland | |||
| 1986 | Lake of Constance | Jezioro Bodeńskie | data-sort-value="Zaorski" | Poland | |||
| 1987 | data-sort-value="Bobo" | The Jester | O Bobo | data-sort-value="Morais" | Portugal | ||
| 1988 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | data-sort-value="Davies" | United Kingdom | ||||
| Schmetterlinge | data-sort-value="Becker" | West Germany | |||||
| 1989 | Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? | 달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은? | data-sort-value="Yong-kyun" | South Korea | |||
| 1990 | Accidental Waltz | Случайный вальс | data-sort-value="Proskurina" | Svetlana Proskurina | Soviet Union | ||
| 1991 | Johnny Suede | data-sort-value="DiCillo" | France, United States, Switzerland | ||||
| 1992 | Autumn Moon | 秋月 | data-sort-value="Law" | Hong Kong, Japan | |||
| 1993 | The Place on a Grey Tricorne | Azghyin ushtykzyn'azaby | data-sort-value="Shinarbayev" | Kazakhstan | |||
| 1994 | Khomreh | خمره | data-sort-value="Forouzesh" | Ebrahim Forouzesh | Iran | ||
| 1995 | Raï | data-sort-value="Gilou" | France | ||||
| 1996 | Nenette and Boni | Nénette et Boni | data-sort-value="Denis" | ||||
| 1997 | data-sort-value="Mirror" | The Mirror | آینه | data-sort-value="Panahi" | Iran | ||
| 1998 | Mr. Zhao | 趙先生 | data-sort-value="Yue" | China, Hong Kong | |||
| 1999 | Skin of Man, Heart of Beast | Peau d’homme, cœur de bête | data-sort-value="Angel" | France | |||
| 2000 | Father | 冤家父子 | data-sort-value="Wang" | China | |||
| 2001 | Off to the Revolution by a 2CV | Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli | data-sort-value="Sciarra" | Italy | |||
| 2002 | data-sort-value="Longing" | The Longing | data-sort-value="Verlangen" | Das Verlangen | data-sort-value="Dilthey" | Germany | |
| 2003 | Khamosh Pani | خاموش پانی | data-sort-value="Sumar" | Pakistan, France, Germany | |||
| 2004 | Private | data-sort-value="Costanzo" | Italy | ||||
| 2005 | Nine Lives | data-sort-value="Garcia" | United States | ||||
| 2006 | Das Fräulein | data-sort-value="Staka" | Switzerland, Germany | ||||
| 2007 | data-sort-value="Rebirth" | The Rebirth | 愛の予感 | data-sort-value="Kobayashi" | Japan | ||
| 2008 | Parque Vía | data-sort-value="Rivero" | Enrique Rivero | Mexico | |||
| 2009 | She, a Chinese | data-sort-value="Guo" | United Kingdom, France, Germany, China | ||||
| 2010 | Winter Vacation | 寒假 | data-sort-value="Hong-chi" | Hongqi Li | China | ||
| 2011 | Back to Stay | Abrir puertas y ventanas | data-sort-value="Mumenthaler" | Argentina, Switzerland, Netherlands | |||
| 2012 | data-sort-value="Girl from" | The Girl from Nowhere | data-sort-value="Fille" | La fille de nulle part | data-sort-value="Brisseau" | France | |
| 2013 | Story of My Death | Història de la meva mort | data-sort-value="Serra" | Spain, France | |||
| 2014 | From What Is Before | Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon | data-sort-value="Diaz" | Philippines | |||
| 2015 | Right Now, Wrong Then[5] | 지금은 맞고 그때는 틀리다 | data-sort-value="Sang-soo" | South Korea | |||
| 2016 | Godless | data-sort-value="Bezbog" | Безбог | data-sort-value="Petrova" | Ralitza Petrova | Bulgaria, Denmark, France[6] | |
| 2017 | Mrs. Fang | 方绣英 | data-sort-value="Bing" | China, France, Germany[7] | |||
| 2018 | A Land Imagined | 幻土 | Singapore, France, Netherlands[8] | ||||
| Vitalina Varela | Portugal | ||||||
| Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash | Seperti Dendam, Rindu Harus Dibayar Tuntas | Indonesia, Singapore, Germany | |||||
| 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] | |||