The Robert Bresson Prize is a recognition offered during the Venice Film Festival to the director who, according to the Pontifical Councils for Culture and for Social Communications of the Vatican, "has given a testimony, significant for sincerity and intensity, of the difficult passage in search of spiritual meaning in our lives".

In 2010, on the occasion of the 11th edition of the Prize, a special piece of art has been realized. The title of the work is "HOPE" and was made by the artist Akelo (Andrea Cagnetti).

• 2000 – Giuseppe Tornatore
• 2001 – Manoel de Oliveira
• 2002 – Theo Angelopoulos
• 2003 – Krzysztof Zanussi
• 2004 – Wim Wenders
• 2005 – Jerzy Stuhr
• 2006 – Zhang Yuan
• 2007 – Alexander Sokurov
• 2008 – Daniel Burman
• 2009 – Walter Salles
• 2010 – Mahamat Saleh Haroun
• 2011 – Dardenne brothers
• 2012 – Ken Loach
• 2013 – Amos Gitai
• 2014 – Carlo Verdone
• 2015 – Mohsen Makhmalbaf

• Robert Bresson Prize at archive.today (archived April 14, 2013)