67th Venice International Film Festival jury made in awarding prizes, and singled out Tarantino, accusing him of favoritism. He denied the charge. The international juries of the 67th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows: Main Competition (Venezia 67) Horizons (Orizzonti) Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film) Controcampo Italiano Persol 3-D The Leone d'oro (Golden Lion) award was won by "Somewhere", directed by Sofia Coppola, a film based in part on Coppola's childhood as the daughter of acclaimed American director Francis Ford Coppola. Quentin Tarantino, the president of the jury that awarded the prize, hailed the film saying, "it grew
Francis Ford Coppola 1998, when the jurors in the resultant court case awarded Coppola $20 million as compensation for losing the "Pinocchio" film project. However, they also awarded him a further $60 million in punitive damages on top, stemming from his charges that Warner Bros. sabotaged his intended version. This is the largest civil financial verdict ever against a Hollywood studio. During the filming of "Contact" on December 28, 1996, Coppola filed a lawsuit against Carl Sagan and Warner Bros. Sagan had died a week earlier and Coppola claimed that Sagan's novel "Contact" was based on a story the pair had developed for