MUMBAI: After Mira Nair bagged the Golden Lion for Monsoon Wedding at the Venice Film Festival in 2001, Sofia Coppola has bagged the same for her film Somewhere this year. Golden Lion is presented as a best film award.

In 2003, Coppola became only the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for directing Lost in Translation that starred Bill Murray. Her other films include The Virgin Suicide and Marie Antoinette. 

Spain‘s Alex de la Iglesia picked up the Silver Lion for Best Director for A Sad Trumpet Ballad. The film also nabbed the best screenplay award.

Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski‘s political thriller Essential Killing received the Special Jury Prize.