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	...Best Short - Fiction
	...Best Documentary
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Venice Film Festival: 1938

Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata (president) (Italy); Olaf Andersson (Sweden); Luigi Freddi (Italy); Milous Havel (Czechoslovakia); Neville Kearney (UK); René Jeanne (France); Oswald Lehnich (Germany); Antonio Maraini (Italy); Humberto Mauro (Brazil); Edmond Moreau (Switzerland); Eitel Monaco (Italy); Ryszard Ordynski (Poland); Giacomo Paolucci de Calboli Barone (Italy); Alfonso Rivas Bustamante (Mexico); Harold Smith (I) (USA); Junzo Sato (Japan); F.L. Theron (South Africa); Carl Vincent (Belgium); Louis Villani (Hungary)

Best Film


Winners:
	Luciano Serra pilota (1938) - Goffredo Alessandrini Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker (1938) - Leni Riefenstahl - Also for Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit (1938).
Other In-Competition Films:
	Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (1938) - Norman Taurog Drum, The (1938) - Zoltan Korda Gonin no Sekkohei (1938) - Tomotaka Tasaka Heimat (1938) - Carl Froelich Jezebel (1938) - William Wyler Marie Antoinette (1938) - W.S. Van Dyke Prison sans barreaux (1938) - Léonide Moguy Pygmalion (1938) - Anthony Asquith; Leslie Howard (I)

Volpi Cup

Best Actor


Winner:
	Pygmalion (1938) - Leslie Howard (I)

Best Actress


Winner:
	Marie Antoinette (1938) - Norma Shearer

Special Recommendation


Winners:
	Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936) - Fernando de Fuentes (I) - For its overall artistic contribution. Break the News (1938) - For its story. Caccia in Ungharia, La (????) - Mayar Film Iroda - For its overall artistic contribution. Fahrendes Volk (1938) - Jacques Feyder - For its overall artistic contribution. Geniusz sceny (1939) - Ludwik Solski - For his acting. Hanno rapito un uomo (1938) Jezebel (1938) - William Wyler - For its overall artistic contribution. Kvinnas ansikte, En (1938) - Gustaf Molander - For its overall artistic contribution. Michelangelo (1938) - Curt Oertel - For the direction. Mustergatte, Der (1937) - Heinz Rühmann - For his acting. Quai des brumes, Le (1938) - Marcel Carné - For the direction. Rage of Paris, The (1938) Sotto la croce del sud (1938) - For its technical merit.. Thema's van de inspiratie (1938) - Charles Dekeukeleire - For its overall artistic contribution. Urlaub auf Ehrenwort (1938) - Karl Ritter (I) - For the direction. Vivacious Lady (1938) - George Stevens (I) - For its overall artistic contribution.

Best Director


Winner:
	Heimat (1938) - Carl Froelich

Medal


Winner:
	Natur und Technik (1938) - Ulrich K.T. Schultz

Plate

Best Short - Fiction


Winners:
	Armonie pucciniane (1938) - Giorgio Ferroni Karakoram (1937) - Henri de Ségogne Sv. Istvan (1938) - Magyar Film Iroda

Best Documentary


Winners:
	Nella luce di Roma (1938) - Istituto Nazionale Luce River, The (1938) - Pare Lorentz

Best Educative or Scientific Film


Winner:
	Bienenstaat, Der (1938) - Ulrich K.T. Schultz

Best Newsreel


Winners:
	Review of the Year - Gaumont-British U.F.A. Wochenschau - Universum Film AG (UFA) Voyage of the British Sovereigns to France - Roger Weil Lorac