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60th Venice International Film Festival

2003 film festival edition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1518021 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 60th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 6 September 2003, at Venice Lido in Italy.

Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion was awarded to The Return by Andrey Zvyagintsev.

The festival opened with Anything Else by Woody Allen.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “60th Venice International Film Festival” as 2003 film festival edition. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where 60th, Venice and International can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2003 film festival edition. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1518021. Authority coordinates are 45.440, 12.332. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “60th Venice International Film Festival” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.