Venice Festival Prize: "Roma" wins the Golden Lion

To everyone's surprise, "Roma" won the Golden Lion. The heartbreaking drama of Alfonso Cuarón has emerged as the most critically acclaimed film on the festival circuit this year, and it is expected to be Venice's first prize since its first performance last week. Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Favorite" also proved to be a success, winning the best actress for a better Olivia Colman and the Grand Jury Prize.

Among the other big winners, the best actor Willem Dafoe, whose masterful performance by Vincent van Gogh is behind Julian Schnabel's "At Eternity & # 39; s Gate" and the Coen Brothers who won Best Screenplay awards for "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs". The Lido's empty hands include Brady Corbet's "Vox Lux", László Nemes' "Sunset" and Luca Guadagnino's "Suspira" polarizing remake.

Cuarón's close friend, Guillermo del Toro, led the jury this year after winning the Golden Lion of "The Shape of Water" last year; The film won Best Film and Best Director at the Academy Awards. Sylvia Chang, Trine Dyrholm, Nicole García, Paolo Genovese, Małgorzata Szumowska, Taika Waititi, Christoph Waltz and Naomi Watts join him.

Competition

"The favourite"

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Golden Lion of the best movie
"Roma", directed by Alfonso Cuarón

Grand Jury Prize
"The Favorite", dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

Best Director
Jacques Audiard, "Brothers brothers"

Volpi Cup, best actress
Olivia Colman, "The favorite"

Volpi Cup, Best Actor
Willem Dafoe, "At Eternity's Gate"

Best screenplay
Joel & Ethan Coen, "The Buster Scruggs Ballad"

Special Jury Prize
"The Nightingale," dir: Jennifer Kent

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress
Baykali Ganambarr, "The Nightingale"

horizons

"Jinpa"

Best film
"Manta Ray", dir. Phuttiphong Aroonpheng

Best Director
"Ozen (the river)", dir: Emir Baigazin

Special Jury Prize
"Anons (the announcement)," dir: Mahmut Fazil Coskun

Best actress
Natalya Kudryashova, "The man who surprised everyone"

Best actor
Kais Nasif, "Tel Aviv on Fire"

Best screenplay
Pema Tseden, "Jinpa"

Best short film
Kado, dir: Aditya Ahmad

Lion of the Future – Venice Luigi De Laurentiis Award for first film
"The day I lost my shadow", dir: Soudade Kaadan

Virtual reality

Best VR
"Spheres: Chorus of the Cosmos", dir. Eliza McNitt

Best Virtual Reality Experience
"Buddy VR," dir: Chuck Chae

Best virtual reality story
"The Isle Of The Dead," dir: Benjamin Nuel

The classics of Venice

"The big buster: a celebration"

Best documentary about cinema
"The big buster: a celebration", dir: Peter Bogdanovich

Better restoration
"The Notte Di San Lorenzo", dir. Paolo Vittorio Taviani

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