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VENICE – The jury of the contest led by Guillermo del Toro, winner of last year, won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 75th Venice International Film Festival. The Cuarón film, already considered as a reference for the honor, follows the life of a housekeeper and the bourgeois family who used it in Mexico City in the 1970s.
Mr. Cuarón called the prize "birthday present" of his family, Libo, model of the main character of "ROMA". He chose the distribution of the film to "pay tribute to the women who raised me".
The Silver Lion for Best Director was awarded to Jacques Audiard for "The Sisters Brothers", starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly in the West West assassination. The Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Yorgos Lanthimos for "The Favorite", with Olivia Colman as Queen Anne Mercurial Monarch, and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone as Courtesans.
Ms. Colman also won the award for best actress and rave reviews for her role in the film, which was declared "fascinating, mischievous, astute and feminist plot portrait" by Screen Daily. Willem Dafoe received Best Actor award for playing Vincent van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate.
"The Nightingale", widely recognized as the only film directed by a director in competition, received two awards for her violent revenge story in the colonial part of Tasmania. Jennifer Kent has accepted the special Jury Prize with a call to directors of future films: "Please, go ahead and do it. We need you. One of the main actors in this film, Baykali Ganambarr, won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Talent. He thanked the family and ancestors of Tasmania and praised "The Nightingale" for "not tasting our past".
The Best Screenplay Award went to Joel's "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" and Ethan Coen, a collection of six Western-influenced tales in the land of borders.
The films of the 75th edition have largely inspired the story, largely dark, and have presented a glut of famous authors. In addition to the Coen brothers, it was Mike Leigh (whose "Peterloo" dramatized the 1819 protests in Manchester, England); Mr. Cuarón; Laszlo Nemes (director of "Sunset" and former Academy Award winner of Best Foreign Language Film); Paul Greengrass ("July 22"); Olivier Assayas ("Double Lives"); Luca Guadagnino ("Suspiria"); Frederick Wiseman ("Monrovia, Indiana"); and Mary Harron (of which "Charlie Says" depicts three women who followed Charles Manson). David Cronenberg and Vanessa Redgrave have been awarded Gold Lions for lifetime achievements.
Damien Chazelle returned to open the festival for the second time, after "La La Land", with "First Man", the story of the landing of the moon in 1969, centered on Neil Armstrong, played by Ryan Gosling. Variety called Mr. Chazelle's film "docudrama in the most authentic and exciting meaning of the word," although some have criticized his treatment of the famous lunar plantation of the flag.
High hopes include Bradley Cooper's debut feature, A Star Is Born, starring Cooper and Lady Gaga as country-rock singer and partner of his rising star.
However, the festival has entered this record year with a somewhat discreet ballyhoo, under fire from critics for the ratio of men to women in the range of high level competitions. Attention was worsened by two incidents among the participants: a guest of the producer who wore the "Weinstein Is Innocent" t-shirt during a photo shoot and a critic who shouted misogynistic obscenities during a screening of Mrs. Kent's movie. Ms. Kent, at the press conference for "The Nightingale," called for "compassion" in response.
Errol Morris's documentary "American Dharma" drew attention for his portrayal of Steve Bannon, Trump's director and former Breitbart News, who hit the headlines just by appearing at the festival.
In the marginal sections, the Luigi De Laurentiis Prize for a first film was awarded to Syrian documentary filmmaker Soudade Kaadan for his first feature film, "The day I lost my shadow," about a woman who survived in wartime. Awards in the Horizons section went to Phuttiphong Aroonpheng's "Manta Ray" for best film and to Emir Baigazin for best director for "The River". A special jury prize was awarded to Mahmut Fazil Coskun coup.
Finally, Orson Welles' unfinished film "The Other Side of the Wind" was featured in a new, reconstructed version, and veteran filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich won an award for his documentary "The Great Buster: A Celebration".
Alex Marshall contributed to the report.
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