Venice Film Festival 2021, the Golden Lion to Audrey Diwan

The prizes of the 78th Mostra Internazionale dArte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia have been awarded: the jury, chaired by director Bong Joon Ho, the 2020 Academy Award winner, and composed of Saverio Costanzo, Virginie Efira, Cynthia Erivo, Sarah Gadon, Alexander Nanau and Chloé Zhao, viewed the twenty-one films in competition and awarded the prizes. The Golden Lion for Best Film goes to L’événement by Audrey Diwan (France), while the Grand Jury Prize is awarded to Ã? stato la mano di Dio by Paolo Sorrentino (Italy). Silver Lion for Best Director to Jane Campion for the film The Power of the Dog (New Zealand, Australia). Winners of the Volpi Cup were Penélope Cruz, best actress, in Pedro Almodóvar’s Madres paralelas (Spain) and John Arcilla, best actor, in Erik Matti’s The Job: The Missing 8 (Philippines). The award for best screenplay goes to Maggie Gyllenhaal for her film The Lost Daughter (Greece, USA, UK, Israel), the special jury prize goes to Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il buco (Italy, France, Germany), and the Marcello Mastroianni prize reserved for a young up-and-coming actor or actress is for Filippo Scotti in the film Ã? stato la mano di Dio.

For the Horizons section, the jury, presided over by Jasmila Žbanić and composed of Mona Fastvold, Shahram Mokri, Josh Siegel and Nadia Terranova, after viewing the nineteen feature films and twelve short films in competition, awarded the prize for best film to Piligrimai by Laurynas Bareiša (Lithuania), that for best director to Ã?ric Gravel for the film Ã? plein temps (France), the special jury prize to El gran movimiento by Kiro Russo (Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland), the best actress award to Laure Calamy in the film Ã? plein temps by Ã?ric Gravel, the best actor award to Piseth Chhun in the film Bodeng Sar by Kavich Neang (Cambodia, France, China, Qatar), the best screenplay award to Peter Kerekes and Ivan Ostrochovský for the film Cenzorka (107 mothers) by Peter Kerekes (Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Ukraine), the award for best short film to Los Huesos by Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña (Chile). In contrast, the Venice Short Film Nomination for the European Film Awards 2021 goes to Fall of the ibis king by Josh OCaoimh and Mikai Geronimo (Ireland).

The Leone del Futuro - Premio Venezia Opera Prima Luigi De Laurentiis Jury , chaired by Uberto Pasolini and composed of Martin Schweighofer and Amalia Ulman ba awarded the Leone del Futuro - Premio Venezia Opera Prima Luigi De Laurentiis to Imaculat by Monica Stan, George Chiper-Lillemark (Romania). As for the Venice VR Expanded award, on the other hand, the Jury chaired by Michelle Kranot and composed of Maria Grazia Mattei and Jonathan Yeo after viewing the 23 competing projects, awarded the following prizes: the Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Feature to Goliath: Playing with Reality by Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla (UK, France), the Best VR Experience Award to Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li by Blanca Li (France, Germany, Luxembourg), the Best VR Story Award to End of the Night by David Adler (Denmark, France). Finally, the Spectators’ Award - Armani Beauty goes to Sokea mies, joka ei halunnut nähdä Titanicia (“The Blind Man Who Wouldn’t See Titanic”) by Teemu Nikki (Finland).

Image: Audrey Diwan receives the Golden Lion.

Venice Film Festival 2021, the Golden Lion to Audrey Diwan

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