Since then, the “Laceno d’oro” began to definitively identify itself as a cinematographic “Review” characterized by interesting debates at the end of each screening. The Jury included prominent names in the journalistic, cinematographic and literary world: Pier Paolo Pasolini (who, accepting the invitation of Marino and Onofrio, had given a decisive impulse to the birth of the Prize), Domenico Rea, Cesare Zavattini, Carlo Lizzani, Marcello Gatti, Lina Wertmuller, Giuliano Montaldo, Luigi Zampa, Tinto Brass and many prestigious filmmakers and intellectuals. There were numerous innovations that, year after year, enriched the Award: in 1969 a new section dedicated to documentaries was inaugurated, the “Review of the Laceno d’Oro Ridotto Pass”; on the occasion of the twenty-fourth edition, a “Minifestival for children” was created, sponsored by the Venice Film Festival, whose projections were intended for students of the various middle schools in the capital. And then again painting exhibitions and the first avant-garde theater festival. To be awarded, for their works, were already established artists but, more often, new directors and young actors. The “Laceno d’Oro” was, in fact, called the “Lucky Charm”, and it is enough to scroll through the list of winners to realize this. Just one example: some future Masters of world cinema (Antonioni, Pontecorvo, the Taviani brothers, Scola) obtained their first official recognition in Irpinia, before Venice and Cannes.

The Festival, which became such in 1975, because until then it had been characterized as an exhibition, hosted films from all over the world but favoring those from Eastern and developing countries, thus assuming an international dimension.

From that season, the Camillo Marino Prize was also created to be a direct parentage, which the ImaginAzione Film Culture Club has organized since 2001 and from which the new Laceno d’oro was reborn shortly after, with the budding also of the Giacomo d’Onofrio Award. Notable authors who from 2001 to today have received the Prize: Ettore Scola, Gillo Pontecorvo, Aurelio Grimaldi, Antonietta De Lillo, Vincenzo Marra, Ken Loach, Ken Loach, the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Marco Bellocchio, Laurent Cantet, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Olivier Assayas, Zhang-Ke Jia, in the course of exciting evenings, during which we witnessed the masterpieces of the award-winning directors.