47th Venice International Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Festival date	4 – 14 September 1990
Website	Website
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The 47th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 4 to 14 September 1990.^[1][2]

American writer Gore Vidal was the Jury President of the main competition.

The Golden Lion winner was Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead directed by Tom Stoppard.

The following people comprised the 1990 jury:^[3]

• Gore Vidal, American writer - Jury President
• María Luisa Bemberg, Argentine filmmaker and actress
• Edoardo Bruno, Italian film critic
• Gilles Jacob, French film critic
• Alberto Lattuada, Italian director
• Kira Muratova, Soviet filmmaker
• Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
• Ula Stöckl, West German filmmaker and actress
• Anna-Lena Wibom

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The African Woman	Die Rückkehr	Margarethe von Trotta	West Germany, Italy
An Angel at My Table		Jane Campion	New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, United States
Boys on the Outside	Ragazzi fuori	Marco Risi	Italy
Collapse	Raspad	Mikhail Belikov	Soviet Union
Farewell to Autumn	Pozegnanie jesieni	Mariusz Trelinski	Poland
The Gamblers	Spieler	Dominik Graf	West Germany
Goodfellas		Martin Scorsese	United States
I Hired a Contract Killer		Aki Kaurismäki	Finland, Sweden
Karartma geceleri		Yusuf Kurcenly	Turkey
Laura Adler's Last Love Affair	אהבתה האחרונה של לורה אדלר	Avraham Heffner	Israel
Martha and I	Marta a já	Jiri Weiss	Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Mo' Better Blues		Spike Lee	United States
The Moon in the Mirror	La luna en el espejo	Silvio Caiozzi	Chile
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge		James Ivory	United Kingdom
No Fear, No Die	S'en fout la mort	Claire Denis	France
The Only Witness	Edinstveniyat svidetel	Mikhail Pandoursky	Bulgaria
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead		Tom Stoppard	United Kingdom
Sirup		Helle Ryslinge	Denmark
Tales of a Golden Geisha	あげまん	Juzo Itami	Japan
Traces of an Amorous Life	Tracce di vita amorosa	Peter Del Monte	Italy
Walls	Mathilukal	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	India

• Dovidenia v pekle, prijatelia directed by Juraj Jakubisko (Czechoslovakia, Italy)
• Henry and June directed by Philip Kaufman (United States)
• Romeo.Juliet directed by Armando Acosta (Belgium)
• Dick Tracy directed by Warren Beatty (United States)
• The Company of Strangers directed by Cynthia Scott (Canada)
• Blood Oath directed by Stephen Wallace (Australia)
• Il y a des jours... et des lunes directed by Claude Lelouch (France)
• I taràssachi directed by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Rocco Mortelliti, Fulvio Ottaviano (Italy)
• Dancin' Thru the Dark directed by Mike Ockrent (United Kingdom)
• Un week-end sur deux directed by Nicole Garcia (France)
• Shakha Proshakha directed by Satyajit Ray (India)

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:^[4]

• Boom Boom by Rosa Vergés (Spain)
• Cold Light of Day by Fiona Louise (United Kingdom)
• December (Dicembre) by Antonio Monda (Italy)
• La Discrète by Christian Vincent (France)
• He’s Still There by Halfdan O. Hussie (United States)
• Under a Sky of Blue (Pod nebom golubym) by Vitaliy Dudin (Soviet Union)
• The Station (La Stazione) by Sergio Rubini (Italy)
• Winckelmann's Travels [de] (Winckelmanns Reisen) by Jan Schütte (West Germany)

• Golden Lion: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
• Grand Special Jury Prize: An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion
• Silver Lion:
  • Best Director: Martin Scorsese for Goodfellas
  • Best Screenplay: Helle Ryslinge for Sirup
• Silver Osella:
  • Best Cinematography: Marco Risi for Boys on the Outside
  • Best Editing: Dominique Auvray for No Fear, No Die
  • Best Original Music: Valeri Milovansky for The Only Witness
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Oleg Borisov for The Only Witness
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Gloria Münchmeyer for The Moon in the Mirror

• Raspad by Mikhail Belikov

• Martin Scorsese for Goodfellas

• Best Film: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge by James Ivory
• Best Actress: Marianne Sägebrecht for Martha and I

• Mathilukal by Adoor Gopalakrishnan

• The Only Witness by Michail Pandurski

• An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion
  • Honorable Mention: I, the Worst of All (Yo, la peor de todas) by María Luisa Bemberg

• Mathilukal by Adoor Gopalakrishnan

• Best Film: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge by James Ivory
• Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
• Best Actress: Stefania Sandrelli for The African Woman

• Ettore Scola

• An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion

• An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion

• An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion
• Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese
  • Special Mention: Mo' Better Blues by Spike Lee

• The Station (La stazione) by Sergio Rubini

• Cold Light of Day by Fhiona-Louise
  • Special Mention: Under a Sky of Blue by Vitali Dudin

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival 1990 Awards on IMDb