In 1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness grew to become the to start with Taiwanese film awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. William Siska argues that Italian neorealist films from the mid-to-late forties, this sort of as Open City (1945), Paisa (1946), and Bicycle Thieves can be considered as another "acutely aware artwork movie movement".