The Shape of Water ,an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962 directed by Guillermo del Toro won the Golden Lion award in the 74TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL .
Jury, chaired by Annette Bening, and comprised of Ildikó
Enyedi, Michel
Franco, Rebecca
Hall, Anna
Mouglalis, David
Stratton, Jasmine
Trinca, Edgar
Wright and Yonfan having viewed
all 21 films in competition, has decided as follows:
GOLDEN LION for Best Film to:
THE SHAPE OF WATER
by
Guillermo del Toro (USA)
SILVER LION - GRAND JURY PRIZE to:
FOXTROT
by
Samuel Maoz (Israel, Germany, France, Switzerland)
SILVER LION - AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR to:
Xavier Legrand
for
the film JUSQU’À LA GARDE (France)
COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actress:
Charlotte Rampling
in
the film HANNAH by Andrea Pallaoro (Italy,
Belgium, France)
COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actor:
Kamel El Basha
in
the film THE INSULT by Ziad Doueiri
(Lebanon, France)
AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to:
Martin McDonagh
for
the film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING,
MISSOURI by
Martin McDonagh (Great Britain)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to:
SWEET COUNTRY
by
Warwick Thornton (Australia)
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD
for Best Young Actor or Actress to:
Charlie Plummer
in
the film LEAN ON PETE by Andrew Haigh
(Great Britain)
ORIZZONTI
The
Orizzonti Jury of the 74th Venice International Film Festival, chaired by Gianni
Amelio and
composed of Rakhshan Banietemad, Ami
Canaan Mann, Mark
Cousins, Andrés
Duprat, Fien
Troch and Rebecca
Zlotowski,
after screening the 31 films in competition has decided to award:
the ORIZZONTI
AWARD FOR BEST FILM to:
NICO, 1988
by
Susanna Nicchiarelli (Italy, Belgium)
the ORIZZONTI
AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR to:
Vahid Jalilvand
for BEDOUNE
TARIKH, BEDOUNE EMZA (NO DATE, NO SIGNATURE) (Iran)
the SPECIAL
ORIZZONTI JURY PRIZE to:
CANIBA
by
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (France, USA)
the ORIZZONTI
AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS to:
Lyna Khoudri
in LES
BIENHEUREUX by
Sofia Djama (France, Belgium, Qatar)
the ORIZZONTI
AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR to:
Navid Mohammadzadeh
in BEDOUNE
TARIKH, BEDOUNE EMZA (NO DATE, NO SIGNATURE)
by
Vahid Jalilvand (Iran)
the ORIZZONTI
AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to:
Alireza Khatami
for LOS
VERSOS DEL OLVIDO by
Alireza Khatami
(France,
Germany, Netherlands, Chile)
the ORIZZONTI
AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM to:
GROS CHAGRIN
by
Céline Devaux (France)
the VENICE SHORT
FILM NOMINATION FOR THE
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2017 to:
GROS CHAGRIN
by
Céline Devaux (France)
VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM
Lion
of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film Jury at the
74th Venice Film Festival, chaired by Benoît
Jacquot and
comprised of Geoff Andrew, Albert
Lee, Greta
Scarano and Yorgos
Zois has
decided to award:
LION OF THE FUTURE
“LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT
FILM to:
JUSQU’À LA GARDE
by
Xavier Legrand (France)
VENEZIA 74
as
well as a prize of 100,000 USD, donated by Filmauro to be divided equally
between director and producer.
VENICE CLASSICS
The
Venice Classics Jury, chaired by Giuseppe Piccioni composed
of 26 students of Cinema History, chosen in particular
from the professors of 12 Italian Dams university programmes and from the Ca’
Foscari University of Venice, has decided to award:
the VENICE
CLASSICS AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY ON CINEMA to:
THE PRINCE AND THE DYBBUK
by
Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski (Poland, Germany)
the VENICE
CLASSICS AWARD FOR BEST RESTORED FILM to:
IDI I SMOTRI (COME AND SEE) by Elem Klimov
(USSR, 1985)
VENICE VIRTUAL REALITY
The
Venice VR Jury of the 74th Venice International Film Festival, chaired by John
Landis and
composed of Cécile Sciamma and Ricky
Tognazzi has
decided to award:
the BEST
VR AWARD to:
ARDEN’S WAKE (EXPANDED)
by
Eugene YK Chung (USA)
the BEST
VR EXPERIENCE AWARD (FOR
INTERACTIVE CONTENT) to:
LA CAMERA INSABBIATA
by
Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang (USA, Taiwan)
the BEST
VR STORY AWARD (FOR LINEAR CONTENT) to:
BLOODLESS
by
Gina Kim (South Korea, USA)
