Venice Film Festival Reveals Award Winners (Updating Live)

Key Points:

• The Venice Film Festival is set to announce its award winners, including the prestigious Golden Lion for best film, with notable contenders such as Danny Boyle’s “Ink” and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Look Back.”
• Last year’s top honors went to Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” (Golden Lion) and Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” (Silver Lion for Best Director), while Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab” won the Grand Jury Prize; Ben Hania is now a jury member.
• The competition jury is led by president Maggie Gyllenhaal and includes prominent filmmakers like Johnnie To, Shahrbanoo Sadat, and Xavier Giannoli, alongside composer Daniel Blumberg and film academic Francesco Casetti.
• The ceremony paid tribute to Oscar-winning British producer Jeremy Thomas, who passed away recently at 77, with Italian film figures praising his contributions to cinema and his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci.
• Highlights from other festival sections include “Un détour par Diane” winning Best Film in Horizons, Riccardo Scamarcio earning Best Actor in Horizons, and “La lunga notte del ’43” receiving Best Restored Film in Venice Classics.