Samuel Maoz Samuel Maoz Samuel Maoz (Hebrew: שמואל מעוז; born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director. His 2009 film, "Lebanon" won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Screenplay for Lebanon at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2010. Shmuel (Shmuel) Maoz was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 20, he was a gunner in one of the first Israeli tanks to enter Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War. After the war, he trained as a cameraman at the Beit Zvi theater school, and did art direction in film
62nd Venice International Film Festival inaugural event of the 62nd Festival will thus acquire the value of a special tribute to filmmaking from the Far East, which has been cause for such enthusiasm in Western film and culture. Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli were each awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The Golden Lion was won by Brokeback Mountain. During this edition of the festival, an International Design Competition of the new Palazzo del Cinema took place. The winner of the competition was "5+1 & Rudy Ricciotti". The purpose of the new building is to house the main headquarters