2024 Venice Film Festival Wrap-Up

Pedro LimaSeptember 8, 2024n/a6 min

This Saturday, September 7th, 2024, the 2024 Biennale di Venezia jury presented this year’s prizes. The president’s jury, French-Actor Isabelle Huppert, and her colleagues selected what they considered to be the best works of the competition. Venice also marks the start of the fall festival season and precedes the awards season. Since 2010, 22 films that world premiered in Venice have been nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and four of them won the award. Also, since 2017, five Golden Lion winners got a Best Picture nomination and two won. The festival has shifted its spotlight upon Hollywood films, it has become an essential path to the awards season.

Here is a quick recap of the 2024 Biennale di Venezia Award Winners:

Competition:

Golden Lion for Best Film: The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar

Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize: Vermiglio by Maura Delpero

Silver Lion – Award for Best Director: Brady Corbet for The Brutalist

Coppa Volpi for Best Actress: Nicole Kidman for Babygirl

Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Vincent Lindon for Jouer Avec le Feu/The Quiet Son

Special Jury Prize: April by Dea Kulumbegashvili

Award for Best Screenplay: Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega for Ainda Estou Aqui/I’m Still Here

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress: Paul Kircher in Leurs Enfants Aprèx Eux/And Their Children After Them


Orrizonti Section:

Orrizonti Award for Best Film: Anul Nou Care n-a Fost/The New Year that Never Came by Bogdan Muresanu

Orrizonti Award for Best Director: Sarah Friedland for Familiar Touch

Special Orrizonti Jury Prize: Hemme’nin Oldugu Gunlerden Biri/One of Those Days When Hemme Dies by Murat Firatoglu

Orrizonti Award for Best Actress: Kathleen Chalfant in Familiar Touch

Orrizonti Award for Best Actor: Francesco Gheghi in Familia

Orrizonti Award for Best Screenplay: Scandar Copti for Yin’Ad Aliku/Happy Holidays 

Orrizonti Award for Best Short Film: Who Loves the Sun by Arshia Shakiba


Orrizonti Extra:

Armani Beauty Audience Award: Shahed/The Witness by Nader Saeivar


Venice Classics:

Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film: Ecce Bombo, Nanni Morreti

Venice Classics Award for Best Documentary on Cinema: Chain Reaction by Alexandre O. Philippe


Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Best Debut Film: Familiar Touch by Sarah Friedland


Giornatte Degli Autori: 

Giornatte Degli Autori Director’s Award: Manas by Marianna Brennand.

Giornatte Degli Autori Public’s Award: Taxi Monamour by Ciro De Caro.

Europa Cinemas Label Award: Alpha by Jan-Willem van Ewijk

Andrea Purgatori SIAE Career Award: Alice Rohrwacher

SIAE Criative Talent Award: Federica Di Giacomo


Queen Lion Award: Alma del Desierto/Soul of the Desert by Mónica Taboada-Tapia

still courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics


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