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Outside of the festival’s acting winners, Venice cemented several films, actors and directors, as strong awards contenders for the season to come.

It’s also debuted a handful future best picture winners like “Nomadland,” “The Shape of Water” and “Birdman.” Iñarritu, twice, Guillermo del Toro and Damien Chazelle. Seven times in the last nine years the best director Oscar has gone to a film that world premiered at the festival, including Chloé Zhao, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro G.

Premiering in competition at Venice has launched many successful Oscar campaigns in recent years, leading to nominations and even wins. Also on the main jury were Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo (“The Inner Cage”) Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Cohn (“Official Competition”) and Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“The Candidate”). The Oscar-winner presided over a jury that included French director Audrey Diwan, whose film “Happening” won the Golden Lion last year, author Kazuo Ishiguro (“Never Let Me Go”), who has been judging from his hotel room after testing positive for COVID-19, and Iranian actor Leila Hatami (“A Separation”). Julianne Moore led the jury that selected Saturday’s winner from a pool of 23 films that included many Oscar hopefuls. Blanchett won for her performance as a renowned conductor in Todd Field’s “TÁR” and Farrell for playing a man who has broken up with by his longtime friend in Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin.”

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Runner up went to Alice Diop’s “Saint Omer,” the narrative debut from the documentarian about a young novelist observing the trial of a woman accused of infanticide.Ĭate Blanchett and Colin Farrell won the top acting prizes. Neon is expected to release the film in theaters this fall and HBO Documentary Films recently acquired it for a television run. Poitras, the American filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning Edward Snowden documentary “Citizenfour,” thanked the festival for recognizing that “documentary is cinema” at the ceremony Saturday evening in Venice. Reilly (Chloë Sevigny) begins questioning the ethics of such a diabolical experiment.(AP) - “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras’s epic documentary about photographer Nan Goldin and her activism against the Sackler family and their art connections has been awarded the Golden Lion for best film at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. Phillips (Peter Stormare) attempts to manipulate the study to get the answers he wants, the newest member of his team, military psychologist Ms. At first, the participants all assume that the subject who gives the most obviously incorrect answer will be removed from the experiment, though it doesn't take long for the group to realize that the correct answer isn't always the answer that the researchers are looking for.

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