Ang Lee has walked off with the Golden Lion at Venice - for the second time in three years.
The Taiwanese director's win for erotic thriller Sie, Jie (Lust, Caution) comes just two years after he won the award for Brokeback Mountain.
Lee said he was dedicating his prize for the film, which is set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during the Second World War, to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who died in July, aged 89.
Veteran director Brian De Palma won the Silver Lion for best direction for his controversial film about Iraq, Redacted, a fictional account of an atrocity committed against an Iraqi girl and her family by American forces.
Taking home the acting awards were Cate Blanchett for her role in Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There and Brad Pitt for his title role in The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. Hafsia Herzi, meanwhile, won the Masrcello Mastroinanni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress for her role in La Graine Et Le Mulet (Secret Of The Grain) a drama about an immigrant Arab family in France.
British writer Paul Laverty won the Best Screenplay award for his latest film with long-time collaborator Ken Loach for It's A Free World..., about the plight of immigrant workers in the UK.
Also flying the flag for the UK was Paddy Considine's short fiilm Dog Altogether, which stars Peter Mullan, that picked up the Silver Lion for Best Short Film.
Rodrigo Prieto took home the best cinematography award for his work on Lust, Caution and Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci was honored with a special award for his career's work, which includes Last Tango In Paris and The Dreamers.
For a full list of the winners, visit the official site.
