The 26th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 6 September 1965.
Italian poet Carlo Bo was the Jury President. The Golden Lion winner was Sandra directed by Luchino Visconti.
Jury
Carlo Bo, Italia poet - Jury President
Lewis Jacobs, American filmmaker
Nikolai Lebedev, Soviet actor
Jay Leyda, American filmmaker
Max Lippmann, West-German
Edgar Morin, French philosopher
Rune Waldekranz, Swedish producer
Official Selections
Official Awards
Main Competition
Golden Lion: Sandra by Luchino Visconti
Special Jury Prize: I Am Twenty by Marlen Khutsiyev Simon of the Desert by Luis Buñuel Modiga mindre män by Leif Krantz Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Toshirô Mifune by Red Beard Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Annie Girardot by Three Rooms in Manhattan Best First Work: Faithfulness by Pyotr Todorovsky
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI Prize
Simon of the Desert by Luis Buñuel
Gertrud by Carl Theodor Dreyer
OCIC Award
Red Beard by Akira Kurosawa
UNICRIT Award
Twenty Hours by Zoltán Fábri
Lion of San Marco
Utek do vetru by Václav Táborsky
Tjorven, Båtsman och Moses by Olle Hellbom
The Snowy Day by Mal Wittman
Enter Hamlet by School of Visual Art California
Best Film about Adolescence: The Searching Eye by Saul Bass
Best Documentary: Le isole incantante by Aleksandr Zguridi
Best Documentary - Television: Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy by Liliana Cavani Best Children's Film - Television: Charley by Jimmy Murakami & Alan Ball