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Saturday
Sep102016

Venice Prizes for La La & Lav

The 73rd annual Venice Film Festival came to a close today and with that comes jury prizes. Here's the list

Lav Diaz new film "The Woman Who Left" is inspired by Tolstoy's book "God Sees the Truth, But Waits". It's four hours long and took the top Venice prize.

Main Competition Jury (Jury President Sam Mendes)
Golden Lion: The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz)
Grand Jury Prize: Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
Silver Lion (Best Director): [tie] Amat Escalante for The Untamed and Andrei Konchalovsky for Paradise
Volpi Cup Best Actress: Emma Stone for La La Land
Volpi Cup Best Actor: Oscar Martínez for The Distinguished Citizen
Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor: Paula Beer for Frantz 

A FEW NOTES on the winners after the jump...

To make things extra confusing Lav Diaz's four hour black-and-white Venice winner is NOT the Lav Diaz film that's one of The Philippine's finalists for their Oscar submission in 2016. The black and white Lav Diaz "movie" (he's really making miniseries, let's call them what they are!) that Philippines might submit this year is The Lullaby of the Sorrowful Mystery which is 8 hours long. (For those who'd like a comparison, last year's Golden Lion went to Desde Alla / From Afar which is Venezuela's Oscar entry this year with the Silver Lion going to Argentina's Oscar entry last year The Clan and the Grand Jury Prize to Anomalisa.)

Trivia freaks take note: The Volpi Cup for Best Actress rarely aligns with Oscar nominations (most recently 10 years ago with Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There) and has only thrice corresponded to the eventual Best Actress winner:

1932 Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1951 Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire 
2006 Helen Mirren in The Queen 

Could Emma be the fourth?

Horizons (Orizzonti Jury)
Film: Release Me (Federica Di Giacomo)
Director: Fien Troch for Home
Jury Prize: Big Big World (Reha Erdem)
Actress: Ruth Díaz for The Fury of a Patient Man
Actor: Nuno Lopes for Saint George
Screenplay: Bitter Money by Wang Bing
Short Film: La Voz Perdida (Marcello Martinessi) 

Liev & Naomi were at Venice for the Liev Schreiber tribute

Miscellaneous Prizes
Best Debut Film: The Last of Us (Ala Eddine Slim)
Documentary on Cinema: The Graduation (Claire Simon)
Restored Film: Break Up, the Man With Balloons (Marco Ferreri) 
Lifetime Achievement: Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jerzy Skolimowski
Glory to the Filmmaker Award: Amir Naderi
Vistionary Talent Award: Liev Schreiber 

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Reader Comments (52)

Stone better not win the Oscars. I am going to destroy the TV.

September 11, 2016 | Unregistered Commenterchand

Why can't Lav Diaz make a movie that is less than three hours long? Are his vision and execution really that grand on every single outing that his movies regularly need to be four to six hours long?

September 12, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterEvan
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