Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Year : 2, Issue: 36
The 81st Venice Film Festival came to its close last Saturday with an award award-giving ceremony. The festival marks the start of the awards season and regularly throws up big favourites for the Oscars, with eight of the past 12 best director awards at the Oscars going to films that debuted in Venice.
The Venice jury this year was headed by French actress Isabelle Huppert.
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language movie “The Room Next Door”.
While “The Room Next Door” had been widely tipped to win, the runner-up Silver Lion award was a surprise, going to Italian director Maura Delpero for her slow-paced drama set in the Italian Alps during World War Two – “Vermiglio”.
Australia’s Nicole Kidman won the Best Actress Award for her risque role in the erotic “Babygirl”.
France’s Vincent Lindon was named best actor for “The Quiet Son”.
The best director award went to American Brady Corbet for his three-and-a-half-hour-long movie “The Brutalist” which was shot on 70mm celluloid and recounts the epic tale of a Hungarian Holocaust survivor played by Adrien Brody, who seeks to rebuild his life in the United States.
Source: Reuters
