Maxance Vincent
The 2024 edition of the Venice Film Festival is beginning to wrap up. As such, the festival’s prestigious Awards ceremony was held today, presenting its famed Golden Lion prize via a jury presided over by French actress Isabelle Huppert. The Award for the Golden Lion went to Pedro Almodóvar‘s The Room Next Door, his first English-language feature film starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, with Vincent Lindon and Nicole Kidman respectively winning the Volpi Cups for Best Actor and Actress, for their turns in The Quiet Son and Babygirl.
Below is the complete list of award winners:
MAIN COMPETITION
Golden Lion — Best Film
The Room Next Door
Pedro Almodóvar
Silver Lion — Grand Jury Prize
Vermiglio
Maura Delpero
Silver Lion — Best Director
Brady Corbet for The Brutalist
Special Jury Prize
April, Dea Kulumbegashvili
Best Actor
Vincent Lindon for The Quiet Son
Best Actress
Nicole Kidman for Babygirl
Best Screenplay
Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega for I’m Still Here
ORIZZIONTI SECTION
Best Screenplay
Happy Holidays
Scandar Copti
Best Actress
Kathleen Chalfant for Familiar Touch
Best Actor
Francesco Gheghi for Familia
Best Young Actor
Paul Kircher for And Their Children After Them
Best Film
The New Year That Never Came
Bogdan Muresanu
Best Director
Sarah Friedland for Familiar Touch
Special Jury Prize
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies
Murat Fıratoğlu
Best Short Film
Who Loves the Sun
Arshia Shakiba
Lion of the Future — Venice Award for a Debut Film
Familiar Touch
Sarah Friedland
Orizzonti Extra Audience Award — Armani Beauty
Shahed (The Witness)
Nader Saeivar
VENICE CLASSICS SECTION
Best Documentary on Cinema
Chain Reactions
Alexandre O. Phillipe
Best Restored Film
Ecce Bombo
Nanni Moretti
VENICE IMMERSIVE SECTION
Venice Immersive
Impulse: Playing with Reality
Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla
Special Jury Prize
Oto’s Planet
Gwenael François
Grand Prize
Ito Meikyū
Boris Labbé
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Peter Weir
Sigourney Weaver
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Oh wow, this is the first time the legendary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar has won one of the top prizes from one of the “Big Three” international film festivals. Bien hecho!