Refresh for up to date…: The 81st Venice Movie Competition is drawing to an in depth this night with awards about to be handed out contained in the Lido’s Sala Grande. Jury president Isabelle Huppert and her panel will bestow the Golden Lion together with the opposite most important prizes over the subsequent hour or so. Scroll right down to see the record of laureates as we replace stay.
The final 12 days on the world’s oldest movie competition have been past glamorous — in stark distinction to final yr’s version which unspooled beneath the cloud of the SAG-AFTRA strike, stopping many stars from popping out in assist of their films. Not so this time round as well-known faces got here ashore by the boatload. They included Michael Keaton, Jenna Ortega, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Adrien Brody, Jude Legislation, Nicholas Hoult, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Daniel Craig, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga.
Not all of them had movies within the competitors which was rife with robust titles and performances. Receiving significantly robust notices had been Luca Guadagnino’s Queer starring Craig; Pablo Larrain’s Maria Callas biopic Maria with a buzzy lead flip from Jolie; Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Subsequent Door led by Moore and Swinton (and incomes a mega 18-minute ovation following its premiere); and Halina Rejin’s Babygirl that includes a dedicated efficiency by Kidman.
Different titles that bought of us excited embody Brady Corbet’s third function right here in Venice, The Brutalist, starring Brody, Walter Salles’ I’m Nonetheless Right here and Dea Kulumbegashvili’s April.
It was 5 years in the past this weekend that Todd Phillips’ Joker sashayed away with the Golden Lion; this yr he returned with sequel Joker: Folie à Deux which didn’t seem to overwhelm audiences in the identical method, although Phoenix was roundly praised once more for his tackle Arthur Fleck.
We’ll know which manner the jury has voted in just a bit bit, so examine again beneath.
Awards Updating Stay:
Golden Lion
Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion Greatest Director
Particular Jury Prize
Greatest Screenplay
Greatest Actress
Greatest Actor
Vincent Lindon for The Quiet Son
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Greatest New Younger Actor or Actress
Paul Kircher for And Their Youngsters After Them
HORIZONS
Greatest Movie
The New Yr That By no means Got here by Bogdan Muresanu
Greatest Director
Sarah Friedland for Acquainted Contact
Particular Jury Prize
One in every of These Days When Hemme Dies by Murat Firatoglu
Greatest Actress
Kathleen Chalfant for Acquainted Contact
Greatest Actor
Francesco Ghegi for Household
Greatest Screenplay
Joyful Holidays by Scandar Copti
Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Movie
Acquainted Contact by Sarah Friedland
Greatest Brief Movie
Who Loves The Solar by Arshia Shakiba
HORIZONS EXTRA
Viewers Award
The Witness (Shahed)
VENICE CLASSICS WINNERS
Greatest Restored Movie
Ecce Bombo, Nanni Moretti
Greatest Documentary On Cinema
Chain Reactions
VENICE IMMERSIVE WINNERS
Venice Immersive Achievement Award
Impulse Taking part in With Actuality
Venice Immersive Particular Jury Prize
Oto’s Planet
Venice Immersive Grand Prize
Ito Meikyū
Extra to return…
