Jury

• Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata
  Giuseppe Volpi
  Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata was an Italian businessman and politician....
  
   (president) (Italy)
• Olaf Andersson (Sweden)
• Luigi Freddi
  Luigi Freddi
  Luigi Freddi was an Italian journalist and politician, principally notable for being the first vicesegretario of the Fasci italiani all'estero, and later one of those most responsible for Italian political cinema in the second half of the 1930s and the start of the 1940s.As a futurist and a...
  
   (Italy)
• Milous Havel (Czechoslovakia)
• Neville Kearney (UK)
• René Jeanne
  René Jeanne
  René Jeanne was a French actor, writer, and cinema historian. He was born in 1887 and died in 1969. Jeanne was married to actress Suzanne Bianchetti.Jeanne was also notable for serving on the jury of the Mostra de Venise in 1937 and 1938.- Film Festival :...
  
   (France)
• Oswald Lehnich (Germany)
• Antonio Maraini (Italy)
• Humberto Mauro
  Humberto Mauro
  Humberto Duarte Mauro was a Brazilian film director. His best known work is Ganga Bruta. He is often considered the greatest director of early Brazilian cinema.-Career:...
  
   (Brazil)
• Edmond Moreau (Switzerland)
• Eitel Monaco (Italy)
• Ryszard Ordynski (Poland)
• Giacomo Paolucci de Calboli Barone (Italy)
• Alfonso Rivas Bustamante (Mexico)
• Harold Smith (USA)
• Junzo Sato (Japan)
• F. L. Theron (South Africa)
• Carl Vincent (Belgium)
• Louis Villani (Hungary)

In-Competition films

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)
  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a 1938 American drama film directed by Norman Taurog. The screenplay by John V.A. Weaver was based on the classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain.-Plot:...
  
  by Norman Taurog
  Norman Taurog
  Norman Rae Taurog was an American film director, and screenwriter.Between 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films, and directed Elvis Presley in more movies than any other director...
  
  
• The Drum
  The Drum (1938 film)
  The Drum is a 1938 British Technicolor film from the book by A. E. W. Mason. The film was directed by Zoltan Korda and produced by Alexander Korda...
  
  by Zoltán Korda
  Zoltán Korda
  Zoltan Korda was a Hungarian-born motion picture screenwriter, director and producer.Born Zoltán Kellner, Kellner Zoltán in Hungarian name order, of Jewish heritage in Pusztatúrpásztó, Túrkeve in Hungary , he was the middle brother of filmmakers Alexander and Vincent Korda.Zoltan Korda went to...
  
  
• Gonin no Sekkohei
  A Pay by the Wayside
  A Pay by the Wayside is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Tomotaka Tasaka. It won best film at the 1939 Kinema Junpo Awards and was nominated best film at the 1938 Venice International Film Festival. The film is also known as Five Scouts in the United States.-Cast:* Hikaru Hoshi* Ichirô Izawa...
  
  by Tomotaka Tasaka
  Tomotaka Tasaka
  was a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he began working at Nikkatsu's Kyoto studio in 1924 and eventually came to prominence for a series of realist, humanist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the late 1930s such as Robō no ishi and Mud and Soldiers, both of...
  
  
• Heimat by Carl Froelich
  Carl Froelich
  Carl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:...
  
  
• Jezebel by William Wyler
  William Wyler
  William Wyler was a leading American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.Notable works included Ben-Hur , The Best Years of Our Lives , and Mrs. Miniver , all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, and also won Best Picture...
  
  
• Luciano Serra pilota by Goffredo Alessandrini
  Goffredo Alessandrini
  Goffredo Alessandrini was an Italian script writer and film director. He also acted, edited, and produced some films.-Biography:...
  
  
• Marie Antoinette
  Marie Antoinette (1938 film)
  Marie Antoinette is a 1938 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette...
  
  by W. S. Van Dyke
  W. S. Van Dyke
  Woodbridge Strong "Woody" Van Dyke, Jr. was an American motion picture director.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
  Olympia (1938 film)
  Olympia is a 1938 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit . It was the first documentary feature...
  
  and Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit
  Olympia (1938 film)
  Olympia is a 1938 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit . It was the first documentary feature...
  
  by Leni Riefenstahl
  Leni Riefenstahl
  Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...
  
  
• Prison sans barreaux by Léonide Moguy
  Léonide Moguy
  Léonide Moguy was a Russian born French film director, screenwriter and film editor .He was active in film between 1936 and 1961.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Pygmalion
  Pygmalion (1938 film)
  Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller....
  
  by Anthony Asquith
  Anthony Asquith
  Anthony Asquith was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version , among other adaptations...
  
  , Leslie Howard
  Leslie Howard (actor)
  Leslie Howard was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer. Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind and roles in Berkeley Square , Of Human Bondage , The Scarlet Pimpernel , The Petrified Forest , Pygmalion , Intermezzo , Pimpernel Smith...
  
  

• Best Film:
  • Luciano Serra pilota by Goffredo Alessandrini
    Goffredo Alessandrini
    Goffredo Alessandrini was an Italian script writer and film director. He also acted, edited, and produced some films.-Biography:...
    
    
  • Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
    Olympia (1938 film)
    Olympia is a 1938 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit . It was the first documentary feature...
    
    and Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit
    Olympia (1938 film)
    Olympia is a 1938 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit . It was the first documentary feature...
    
    by Leni Riefenstahl
    Leni Riefenstahl
    Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...
    
    
• Volpi Cup
  Volpi Cup
  The Volpi Cups are the principal awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival. Formal acting awards were introduced in the second festival . Initially they were called Great Gold Medals of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment. The name Volpi Cup was introduced the following year...
  
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  • Best Actor: Leslie Howard
    Leslie Howard (actor)
    Leslie Howard was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer. Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind and roles in Berkeley Square , Of Human Bondage , The Scarlet Pimpernel , The Petrified Forest , Pygmalion , Intermezzo , Pimpernel Smith...
    
     for Pygmalion
    Pygmalion (1938 film)
    Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller....
    
    
  • Best Actress: Norma Shearer
    Norma Shearer
    Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s...
    
     for Marie Antoinette
    Marie Antoinette (1938 film)
    Marie Antoinette is a 1938 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette...
    
    
• Special Recommendation:
  • Allá en el Rancho Grande by Fernando de Fuentes
    Fernando De Fuentes
    Fernando de Fuentes Carrau was a Mexican film director, considered a pioneer in the film industry worldwide.-Early life and education:...
    
    
  • Break the News
    Break the News (film)
    Break the News is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Jack Buchanan, Maurice Chevalier and June Knight. Two struggling performers decide to create a fake murder scandal in order to drum up publicity for their act...
    
    by René Clair
    René Clair
    René Clair born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and grew up in the Les Halles quarter. He attended the Lycée Montaigne and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver. After the war, he started a career as a journalist...
    
    
  • Der Mustergatte by Heinz Rühmann
    Heinz Rühmann
    Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...
    
    
  • En kvinnas ansikte
    A Woman's Face (1938 film)
    A Woman's Face is a 1938 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander, based on the play Il etait une fois by Francis de Croisset. The cast includes Ingrid Bergman in the lead as a criminal woman with a disfigured face....
    
    by Gustaf Molander
    Gustaf Molander
    Gustaf Harald August Molander was a Swedish actor and film director. His parents were the director Harald Molander, Sr. and the singer and actress Lydia Molander, née Wessler, and his brother was the director Olof Molander...
    
    
  • Fahrendes Volk by Jacques Feyder
    Jacques Feyder
    Jacques Feyder was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema...
    
    
  • Geniusz sceny by Ludwik Solski
    Ludwik Solski
    Ludwik Solski , born Ludwik Napoleon Karol Sosnowski,was a Polish stage actor and theatre director. From his stage debut in 1876 until his death he played in nearly a thousand roles.Between 1905 and 1913 he was the director-general of the municipal theatre in Cracow...
    
    
  • Hanno rapito un uomo by Gennaro Righelli
    Gennaro Righelli
    Gennaro Righelli was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 110 films in Italy and Germany between 1910 and 1947. In 1930, he directed the first Italian sound film, La canzone dell'amore....
    
    
  • Jezebel by William Wyler
    William Wyler
    William Wyler was a leading American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.Notable works included Ben-Hur , The Best Years of Our Lives , and Mrs. Miniver , all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, and also won Best Picture...
    
    
  • Le quai des brumes
    Port of Shadows
    Port of Shadows is a 1938 French film directed by Marcel Carné. It stars Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Michèle Morgan. The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. The music score was by Maurice Jaubert. It is a notable example of the poetic realism genre...
    
    by Marcel Carné
    Marcel Carné
    -Biography:Born in Paris, France, the son of a cabinet maker whose wife died when their son was five, Carné began his career as a film critic, becoming editor of the weekly publication, Hebdo-Films, and working for Cinémagazine and Cinémonde between 1929 and 1933. In the same period he worked in...
    
    
  • Michelangelo by Curt Oertel
  • Sotto la croce del sud by Guido Brignone
    Guido Brignone
    Guido Brignone was an Italian film director. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone.Brignone was born in Milan, Italy...
    
    
  • The Rage of Paris
    The Rage of Paris
    The Rage of Paris is a 1938 comedy film made by Universal Pictures. The movie was directed by Henry Koster, and written by Bruce Manning and Felix Jackson. It won the Venice Film Festival for Special Recommendation.-Cast:...
    
    by Henry Koster
    Henry Koster
    Henry Koster was born Hermann Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany. He became a film director and later moved to Hollywood. Koster's father, a salesman, left home when Henry was a young man...
    
    
  • Thema's van de inspiratie by Charles Dekeukeleire
    Charles Dekeukeleire
    Charles Dekeukeleire was a Belgian film director. He pioneered modern Belgian film with Henri Storck. He was inspired by French avant-garde cinema, particularly the works of Germaine Dulac.-Biography:...
    
    
  • Urlaub auf Ehrenwort by Karl Ritter
  • Vivacious Lady
    Vivacious Lady
    Vivacious Lady is a 1938 American black-and-white romantic comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and James Stewart, produced and directed by George Stevens, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The screenplay was written by P.J. Wolfson and Ernest Pagano and adapted from a short story by I. A. R. Wylie...
    
    by George Stevens
    George Stevens
    George Stevens was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.Among his most notable films were Diary of Anne Frank , nominated for Best Director, Giant , winner of Oscar for Best Director, Shane , Oscar nominated, and A Place in the Sun , winner of Oscar for Best...
    
    
• Best Director: Heimat by Carl Froelich
  Carl Froelich
  Carl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:...
  
  
• Medal: Natur und Technik by Ulrich K. T. Schultz
• Best Short - Fiction:
  • Armonie pucciniane by Giorgio Ferroni
  • Karakoram by Henri de Ségogne
  • Sv. Istvan (Magyar Film Iroda)
• Best Documentary:
  • Nella luce di Roma (Istituto Nazionale Luce)
  • The River
    The River (1938 film)
    The River is a 1938 short documentary film which shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico, leading to catastrophic floods and impoverishing farmers...
    
    by Pare Lorentz
    Pare Lorentz
    Pare Lorentz was an American filmmaker known for his movies about the New Deal. Born Leonard MacTaggart Lorentz in Clarksburg, West Virginia, he was educated at Wesleyan College and West Virginia University. As a young film critic in New York and Hollywood, Lorentz spoke out against censorship in...
    
    
• Best Educative or Scientific Film: Der Bienenstaat by Ulrich K. T. Schultz

External links

• Venice Film Festival:1938 at Internet Movie Database
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