# The Golden Lion winners of the 2000s

The ten films awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival from 2000 to 2009.

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## Top 10

1. **The Circle** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jafar Panahi, 2000. The condition of women in contemporary Iran.
2. **Monsoon Wedding** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mira Nair, 2001. A wedding in Delhi and an extended family.
3. **The Magdalene Sisters** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Peter Mullan, 2002. Ireland's Magdalene laundries.
4. **The Return** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003. Two brothers and a father who reappears after twelve years; a debut.
5. **Vera Drake** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mike Leigh, 2004. A woman who performs illegal abortions in 1950 London.
6. **Brokeback Mountain** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ang Lee, 2005. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as two cowboys in love.
7. **Still Life** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jia Zhangke, 2006. The Three Gorges Dam and the drowned villages.
8. **Lust, Caution** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ang Lee, 2007. Espionage and passion in wartime Shanghai; Lee's second Lion.
9. **The Wrestler** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Darren Aronofsky, 2008. Mickey Rourke as a wrestler in decline.
10. **Lebanon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Samuel Maoz, 2009. The 1982 Lebanon War seen from inside a tank.

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