Guy will comment further on these winners later, but for now, just the facts: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
JURY Golden Lion: «Lebanon» (Samuel Maoz) Silver Lion (Best Director): «Women Without Men» (Shirin Neshat) Grand Jury Prize: «Soul Kitchen» (Fatih Akin) Best Actor: Colin Firth, «A Single Man» Best Actress: Ksenia Rappoport, «The Double Hour» Marcello Mastroianni Prize -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Bening and eight other international celebrity jurors will hand out the awards at the festival, including the
Golden Lion for best film and Silver
Lion for best director and the grand
jury prize.
Lav Diaz «s Filipino drama The Woman Who Left took home the
Golden Lion, while Tom Ford's noir Nocturnal Animals stole the Silver
Lion Grand
Jury Prize,
Del Toro was named winner of the
Golden Lion by a
jury headed by U.S. actress Annette Bening, beating contenders including George Clooney's «Suburbicon» and Alexander Payne's «Downsizing.»
The Venice Film Festival wrapped up yesterday with a historic win for The Shape of Water which snatched the
Golden Lion from other acclaimed films including Foxtrot (Grand
Jury Prize).
Golden Lion: «Lebanon» (Samuel Maoz) Silver
Lion (Best Director): «Women Without Men» (Shirin Neshat) Grand
Jury Prize: «Soul Kitchen» (Fatih Akin) Best Actor: Colin Firth, «A Single Man» Best Actress: Ksenia Rappoport, «The Double Hour» Marcello Mastroianni Prize for Young Performer: Jasmine Trinca, «The Big Dream» Best Screenplay: Todd Solondz, «Life During Wartime» Technical Contribution for Set Design: Sylvie Olive, «Mr. Nobody»
Other titles set to compete for the 2017 festival's highest honor, the
Golden Lion Award (the
jury for which is headed this year by Annette Bening), are Darren Aronofsky's «Mother!»
Films to receive special gala screenings will include David Cronenberg's «A Dangerous Method;» Drake Doremus» «Like Crazy,» winner of the Grand
Jury and Special
Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; Michel Hazanavicius» «The Artist» winner of the Best Actor Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival; Roman Polanski's «Carnage» winner of the Little
Golden Lion Prize at the Venice Film Festival; and Sam Levinson's «Another Happy Day,» starring festival honoree Ellen Barkin.
The recipient of the Silver
Lion at the Venice International Film Festival (and the
jury's original choice for the
Golden Lion), The Master has secured a trio of
Golden Globe nominations for Phoenix, Hoffman and Amy Adams and should go on to feature prominently in the acting categories at the Academy Awards.
The
jury of the 2017 festival, headed by American actor Annette Bening, awarded this year's highly coveted
Golden Lion for Best Film to Fox Searchlight's «The Shape of Water,» Guillermo Del Toro's Cold War - era romantic fantasy starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer.
Yet since it wowed the crowds at the Venice Film Festival in September — and dazzled Annette Bening's
jury into handing it the
Golden Lion — The Shape of Water has made a quiet approach in a season dominated by films speaking, or even shouting, to the moment.
Surely one reason for Fassbender hogging last night's Lido headlines — with
Golden Lion winner «Faust» generally relegated to a grudging postscript — is that his was one choice made by the
jury that nearly everyone could agree upon, and had indeed agreed upon since «Shame» «s first screening a week before.
The
jury stated: «Tobias Rehberger is awarded the
Golden Lion as best artist for taking us beyond the white cube, where past modes of exhibition are reinvented and the work of art turns into a cafeteria.
In 2001, the
jury of Venetian Bienalle awarded to Cy Twombly the
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, thereby recognizing the exclusive place which belongs to this master in the world of contemporary art.
A
jury that includes the biennale director also typically awards
Golden Lions for the best national pavilion in the show and the best artist in the main international show, as well a Silver
Lion for a «promising young artist.»
She is also a 2012 Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale curator and
juried for the 2011 Venice Biennale
Golden Lion Award.
Luanda, Encyclopedia City won the
Golden Lion for the Best National Participation with the International
Jury assigning the prestigious award to curators Paula Nascimento and Stefano Rabolli Pansera (Beyone Entropy), Jorge Gumbe, Feliciano dos Santos and artist, Edson Chagas for their reflection on the irreconcilability and complexity of site.
But none of the above took the
Golden Lion for best pavilion at the 50th edition of this mega-exhibit, nor did anything displayed at the Giardini, the favorite haunt of Biennale award
juries — even though it contains roughly half the pavilions.
[15] Accepting the
Golden Lion, Marclay invoked Andy Warhol, thanking the
jury «for giving The Clock its fifteen minutes».