The 76th annual
Venice International Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
was held from 28 August to 7 September 2019. Film director
Lucrecia Martel was appointed as the President of the Jury.
''
The Truth'', directed by
Hirokazu Kore-eda, was selected to open the festival.
The
Golden Lion
The Golden Lion ( it, Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguishe ...
was awarded to ''
Joker'', directed by
Todd Phillips.
Jury
Main Competition (Venezia 76)
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Lucrecia Martel, Argentine director and screenwriter (Jury President)
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Piers Handling
Piers Handling is the former CEO and executive director of the Toronto International Film Festival, and former director of the Canadian Film Institute.
Early life
Piers was born to Joan Garrod and Douglas Handling, who met during World War II. He ...
, Canadian film historian and critic, executive director of the
Toronto International Film Festival
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Mary Harron, Canadian director
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Stacy Martin, French actress
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Rodrigo Prieto, Mexican cinematographer
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Shinya Tsukamoto, Japanese filmmaker and actor
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Paolo Virzì, Italian director and screenwriter
Horizons
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Susanna Nicchiarelli
Susanna Nicchiarelli (; born 6 May 1975) is an Italian director, actress and screenwriter.
Biography
Nicchiarelli graduated in Philosophy at the Sapienza University in Rome and gained a PhD in Philosophy at the Scuola Normale in Pisa and a Di ...
, Italian director and screenwriter (Jury President)
* Mark Adams, artistic director of the
Edinburgh International Film Festival
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Rachid Bouchareb, French filmmaker
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Álvaro Brechner, Uruguayan filmmaker
* Eva Sangiorgi, artistic director of the
Vienna International Film Festival
Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film
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Emir Kusturica, Serbian director, screenwriter and actor (Jury President)
* Antonietta De Lillo, Italian director and screenwriter
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Hend Sabry, Tunisian actress
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Michael J. Werner
Michael J. Werner is an American film producer.
He studied Chinese in the 1980s and has had a deep affinity and association with Chinese and Asian film since then.
In the late 1990s he consulted to the international distribution division of 20th ...
, American-Hongkongese film producer
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Terence Nance, American filmmaker
Venice Virtual Reality
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Laurie Anderson, American composer, artist and director (Jury President)
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Francesco Carrozzini, Italian photographer
* Alysha Naples, Italian designer
Venice Classics
* Costanza Quatriglio, Italian director and screenwriter
Official selection
In Competition
The following films were selected for the main international competition:
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Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion winner.
Out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
Horizons
The following films were selected for the Horizons ( it, Orizzonti) section:
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Highlighted titles indicate Horizons Prizes for Best Feature Film and Best Short Film respectively.
Venice Classics
The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:
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Highlighted titles indicate the Best Restored Film and Best Documentary on Cinema official awards respectively.
Sconfini
The following films were selected for the Sconfini section:
Autonomous sections
International Critics' Week
The following films were selected for the 34th Venice International Critics' Week ( it, Settimana Internazionale della Critica):
Giornate degli Autori
The following films were selected for the 16th edition of the
Giornate degli Autori section:
Awards
Official selection
The following official awards were presented at the 76th edition:
In Competition
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Golden Lion
The Golden Lion ( it, Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguishe ...
: ''
Joker'' by
Todd Phillips
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Grand Jury Prize: ''
An Officer and a Spy'', by
Roman Polanski
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Silver Lion:
Roy Andersson
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for ''A Swedish Love Story'' (1970), '' About Endlessness'' (2019) and his "Living trilogy," which includes '' Songs from the Second Floor'' (2000), '' You, ...
for ''
About Endlessness''
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Volpi Cup for Best Actress:
Ariane Ascaride
Ariane Ascaride (born 10 October 1954) is a French actress and screenwriter. She has appeared in films such as '' Marius et Jeannette'' (''Marius and Jeannette''), '' Ma vraie vie à Rouen'' (''The True Story of My Life in Rouen''; USA, ''My Lif ...
for ''
Gloria Mundi''
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Volpi Cup for Best Actor:
Luca Marinelli
Luca Marinelli (born 22 October 1984) is an Italian actor.
He is best known for the roles of Guido in ''Every Blessed Day'' (2012), Andrea in ''The Great Beauty'' (2013), Cesare in ''Don't Be Bad'' (2015), The Gipsy in ''They Call Me Jeeg'' (201 ...
for ''
Martin Eden''
* Best Screenplay Award: ''
No.7 Cherry Lane
''No.7 Cherry Lane'' () is a 2019 Hong Kong-Chinese Adult animation, adult animated film directed by Yonfan, with animation by Zhang Gang. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. It was al ...
'', by Yonfan
*Special Jury Priz (Venice Film Festival), Special Jury Prize: ''The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be'' by Franco Maresco
*Marcello Mastroianni Award: Toby Wallace, ''Babyteeth (film), Babyteeth''
Horizons (Orizzonti)
*Best Film: ''Atlantis (2019 film), Atlantis'' by Valentyn Vasyanovych
*Best Director: Théo Court for ''White on White (film), White on White''
*Special Jury Prize: ''Verdict (2019 film), Verdict'' by Raymund Ribas Gutierrez
*Best Actress: Marta Nieto for ''Mother (2019 Spanish film), Madre''
*Best Actor: Sami Bouajila for ''A Son''
*Best Screenplay: ''Revenir'' by Jessica Palud
*Horizons Prize for Best Short: ''Darling'' by Saim Sadiq
Lion of the Future
*Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film: ''You Will Die at Twenty'' by Amjad Abu Alala
Venezia Classici Awards
*Best Documentary on Cinema: ''Babenco: Tell Me When I Die''
*Best Restored Film: ''Ecstasy (1933 film), Ecstasy'' (1933)
Special Awards
*Golden Lion#Golden Lion Honorary Award, Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement: Pedro Almodóvar and Julie Andrews
Autonomous sections
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
Giornate degli Autori
* SIAE Award: Marco Bellocchio for ''The Traitor (2019 film), The Traitor''
* GdA Director's Award: ''La Llorona (2019 film), La Llorona'' by Jayro Bustamante
* Europa Cinemas Label: ''Corpus Christi (2019 film), Corpus Christi'' by Jan Komasa
Autonomous awards
* Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award: Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger for ''The Burnt Orange Heresy''
* Campari Passion for the Cinema Award: Luca Bigazzi for The New Pope
* Bresson Award:
Lucrecia Martel
References
External links
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2019 film festivals
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September 2019 events in Italy
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2010s in Venice, Film