The 27th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 10 September 1966.
Italian writer Giorgio Bassani was the Jury President. The Golden Lion winner was The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
Jury
Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer - Jury President
Lindsay Anderson, British director and film critic
Luboš Bartošek, Czechoslovakian
Michel Butor, French writer and poet
Lewis Jacobs, American filmmaker
Lev Kuleshov, Soviet filmmaker
Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker
Official Selections
Official Awards
Main Competition
Golden Lion: The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
Special Jury Prize: Yesterday Girl by Alexander Kluge Chappaqua by Conrad Rooks Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Jacques Perrin for Un uomo a metà Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Natalya Arinbasarova for The First Teacher
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI Prize
The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
OCIC Award
Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson
Honorable Mention: Yesterday Girl by Alexander Kluge
Special Prize: The War Game by Peter Watkins by Yosef Shalhin
Lion of San Marco
Memorandum by Donald Brittain and John Spotton
by Hermína Týrlová and Giancarlo Zagni
Best Film about Adolescence: by Borislav Sharaliev
Best Documentary: by Joris Ivens
Best Documentary - Television: Storm Signal by Robert Drew
Grand Prize: by Yves Plantin and Alain Blondel by Wladyslaw Slesicki The Girl and the Bugler by Aleksandr Mitta
Plate 'Lion of San Marco'
The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work by Jules Engel
Best Experimental Film: by Vittorio Armentano
Best Sport Film: Hockey by Mica Milosevic
Best Children's Film: The Kind-Hearted Ant by Aleksandar Marks & Vladimir Jutrisa Best Animated Film: Chromophobia by Raoul Servais Cultural and Educational Film: by Claude Jutra Film about Architecture: by Jaroslaw Brzozowski
Plate: The Animal Movie by Grant Munro and Ron Tunis Jemima and Johnny by Lionel Ngakane Physics and Chemistry of Water by Sarah Erulkar by Jirí Torman Documentary - Contemporary Life/Social: by Piero Nelli Recreative Children's Film: Little Mole, for the episode by Zdeněk Miler Children's Film - Educative-Didactical: Alexander and a Car without the Left Headlight by Peter Fleischmann Honorary Diploma: by Velia Vergani Tribunal by Herbert Seggelke Willem de Kooning, the Painter by Paul Falkenberg and Hans Namuth Jury Hommage: Robert Bresson Award for best interpretation: by Oleg Kovachev