# The Golden Lion winners of the 2010s

The ten films that won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion between 2010 and 2019.

- 15 votes · 10 items
- Nov 12, 2025 · Rodrigo Fernandes Souza
- https://even.best/en/l/722/the-golden-lion-winners-of-the-2010s

## Top 10

1. **Pietà** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Kim Ki-duk, 2012. A debt collector and a woman who claims to be his mother.
2. **Faust** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Alexander Sokurov, 2011. The conclusion of his tetralogy on power.
3. **Somewhere** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Sofia Coppola, 2010. A bored actor and his daughter in a Los Angeles hotel.
4. **A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Roy Andersson, 2014. Absurd vignettes on the human condition.
5. **The Woman Who Left** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Lav Diaz, 2016. A woman released after 30 years in prison in the Philippines.
6. **Sacro GRA** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Gianfranco Rosi, 2013. The first documentary to win the Golden Lion.
7. **From Afar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lorenzo Vigas, 2015. The first Latin American Golden Lion, from Venezuela.
8. **The Shape of Water** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Guillermo del Toro, 2017. It later also won the Best Picture Oscar.
9. **Roma** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alfonso Cuarón, 2018. The first Netflix production to win a major festival.
10. **Joker** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Todd Phillips, 2019. Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck.

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