Editing Venice Film Festival (section)

===Mussolini Cup ({{lang|it|Coppa Mussolini}})===
The Mussolini Cup was the top award from 1934 to 1942 for Best Italian and Best Foreign Film. Named after Italy's dictator [[Benito Mussolini]], it was abandoned upon his ousting in 1943.<ref name=labiennale.org>{{cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/history/the30s.html|website=La Biennale di Venezia |title=The 30s|access-date=29 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org:80/en/cinema/awards/index.html |title=Golden Lions and major awards of the Venice Film Festival |work=La Biennale |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040414053549/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/awards/index.html |archive-date=14 April 2004 |access-date=22 July 2018 }}</ref>

====Mussolini Cup for Best Italian film====
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year !! Film !! Original title !! Director(s)
|-
! [[2nd Venice International Film Festival|1934]] 
| ''[[Loyalty of Love]]'' || {{lang|it|Teresa Confalonieri}} || [[Guido Brignone]]
|-
! [[3rd Venice International Film Festival|1935]] 
| colspan="2" | {{lang|it|[[Casta Diva (1935 film)|Casta Diva]]}} || [[Carmine Gallone]]
|-
! [[4th Venice International Film Festival|1936]] 
| colspan="2" | {{lang|it|[[Lo squadrone bianco]]}} || [[Augusto Genina]]
|-
! [[5th Venice International Film Festival|1937]] 
| ''[[Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal]]'' || {{lang|it|Scipione l'africano}} || [[Carmine Gallone]]
|-
! [[6th Venice International Film Festival|1938]] 
| ''[[Luciano Serra, Pilot]]'' || {{lang|it|Luciano Serra pilota}} || [[Goffredo Alessandrini]]
|-
! 1939 
| ''[[Cardinal Messias]]'' || {{lang|it|Abuna Messias}} || [[Goffredo Alessandrini]]
|-
! 1940 
| ''[[The Siege of the Alcazar]]'' || {{lang|it|L'assedio dell'Alcazar}} || [[Augusto Genina]]
|-
! 1941 
| ''[[The Iron Crown]]'' || {{lang|it|La corona di ferro}} || [[Alessandro Blasetti]]
|-
! 1942 
| colspan="2" | {{lang|it|[[Bengasi (film)|Bengasi]]}} || [[Augusto Genina]]
|}

====Mussolini Cup for Best foreign film====
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year !! Film !! Original title !! Director(s) || Country
|-
! [[2nd Venice International Film Festival|1934]] 
| colspan="2" | ''[[Man of Aran]]'' || [[Robert J. Flaherty]] || United Kingdom, Irish Free State
|-
! [[3rd Venice International Film Festival|1935]] 
| colspan="2" | ''[[Anna Karenina (1935 film)|Anna Karenina]]'' || [[Clarence Brown]] || United States
|-
! [[4th Venice International Film Festival|1936]] 
| colspan="2" | {{lang|de|[[Der Kaiser von Kalifornien]]}} || [[Luis Trenker]] || Nazi Germany
|-
! [[5th Venice International Film Festival|1937]] 
| ''[[Life Dances On]]'' || {{lang|fr|Un carnet de bal}} || [[Julien Duvivier]] || France
|-
! [[6th Venice International Film Festival|1938]] 
| colspan="2" | ''[[Olympia (1938 film)|Olympia]]'' || [[Leni Riefenstahl]] || rowspan="4" | Nazi Germany
|-
! 1940 
| colspan="2" | {{lang|de|[[Der Postmeister]]}} || [[Gustav Ucicky]] 
|-
! 1941 
| colspan="2" | {{lang|de|[[Ohm Krüger]]}} || [[Hans Steinhoff]] 
|-
! 1942 
| ''[[The Great King]]'' || {{lang|de|Der große König}} || [[Veit Harlan]] 
|}