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4 unusual facts about Golden Lion


Architecture of Denmark

Four young practices, CEBRA, COBE, Transform and Effekt, won the main Golden Lion award at the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture for their Co-Evolution project, featuring proposals for sustainable urban development in four major Chinese cities.

Golden Lion, Fulham

Faulkner, in his History of Fulham, supposes the original mansion to have been of the time of Henry VII; and that it was the residence of Bishop Bonner.

György Kurtág

Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale for lifetime achievement (53rd International Festival of Contemporary Music; 2009)

Lion of Saint Mark

The Lion of Saint Mark is also the symbol of the award of the Venice Film Festival, the "Golden Lion", and of the insurance company Assicurazioni Generali.


Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo

The song was used as background music in a scene in the Mira Nair's Golden Lion winning film, Monsoon Wedding (2001).

Beat Furrer

Recent awards and honors include the Music Prize of the City of Vienna in 2003 and the Golden Lion, for the monodrama "FAMA," at the 2006 Venice Biennale.

Coat of arms of Romania

Then the coat of arms of Transylvania was placed in the fourth quarter, with the Turul replaced by a black aquila, the third quarter depicted the joined coats of arms of Banat and Oltenia (the bridge of Apollodorus of Damascus and a golden lion respectively), and the coat of arms of Dobruja was placed in an insertion.

Ermanno Olmi

In 1988, his La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), based on the novel by Joseph Roth and starring Rutger Hauer, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival as well as a David di Donatello award.

Grande Raccordo Anulare

The road was the subject of the 2013 documentary film Sacro GRA which won the Golden Lion at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.

In the City of Sylvia

En la Ciudad de Sylvia was nominated for the 2007 Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, although the award was eventually presented to Ang Lee for 'Lust, Caution'.

Oshri Cohen

He has also starred in Lost Islands (2008) and Lebanon (2009), which won the Leone d'Oro at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.

Something Like an Autobiography

The book deals with the period from the director's birth to his winning the Golden Lion for Rashomon from the Venice Film Festival in 1951; the period from 1951 through 1980 is not covered.


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Gdynia Film Festival

The Polish Film Festival awards the Golden Lion, which is different from the Golden Eagle, awarded at the Polish Film Awards and the Seattle Polish Film Festival (Seattle is the sister city of Gdynia).

Heiligenroth

So the Nassau Nature Park begins in Heiligenroth, and even the Bundeswehr soldiers stationed in Montabaur bore Nassau’s arms – the golden lion rampant on a blue background – on the left sleeve.

Keith Waterhouse

It was nominated in six categories of the 1964 BAFTA awards, including Best Screenplay, and was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1963; in the early 1970s a sitcom based on the character was quite popular and ran to 25 episodes—a respectable run for a British sitcom, although it has seldom been seen since.

MS Queen Victoria

On 2 Deck can be found the mid-level of the Royal Court Theatre, casino, Golden Lion Pub, Queen's Room, Todd English à la carte restaurant, Chart Room bar, and lower level of both the library and Britannia Restaurant.

Nikita Mikhalkov

On September 8, 2007, Mikhalkov’s film 12, a modern adaptation of Sidney Lumet's court drama Twelve Angry Men, received a special Golden Lion for the “consistent brilliance” of its work and was praised by many critics at the Venice Film Festival.

White horse of Kent

Indeed, continental origins of this emblem can be found from the coat of arms of Lower Saxony, the Dutch region of Twente, the House of Welf (who adapted it in the late 14th century; before then the Welf coat of arms was a golden lion on red ground) and the modern German State of North Rhine-Westphalia: the Saxon Steed.