The 65th Venice International Film Festival, one of the most prestigious in the world with Cannes and Berlin, closed on September 6th. While Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler won the festival’s biggest prize, if you take a look at all the “collateral awards”, quite a few films emerge.
Thus the Italian film Giovanna’s Father and the Ethiopian filmTeza both garnered 5 awards while the Italian Pranzo Di Ferragosto, the American The Hurt Locker, and the Italian/French/Romanian Pa-ra-da collected 4 awards each. Additionally, the Italian documentary Below Sea Level won 3 awards and the Russian Paper Soldier, the American Vegas: Based On A True Story, the Sri Lankan Machan, the Japanese Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea and the French films Stella and L’Apprenti each got 2 awards.
View the full list of winners right here:
Main Prizes
Golden Lion for best film: Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler
Silver Lion for best director: Aleksei German MI. for Paper Soldier (Bumaznyj Soldat)
Special Jury Prize: Haile Gerima’s Teza
Coppa Volpi for best actor: Silvio Orlando in Giovanna’s Father (Il Papà Di Giovanna)
Coppa Volpi for best actress: Dominique Blanc in L’Autre
Marcello Mastroianni Prize for best emerging actor or actress: Jennifer Lawrence in Burning Plain
Osella for best cinematography: Alisher Khamidhodjaev and Maxim Drozdov for Paper Soldier
Osella for best screenplay: Haile Gerima for Teza
Special Lion for overall work: Werner Schroeter
Luigi De Laurentis Award for debut film: Gianni Di Gregorio’s Pranzo Di Ferragosto
Horizon Prizes
Premio Orizzonti: Lav Diaz’s Melancholia
Premio Orizzonti Doc: Gianfranco Rosi’s Below Sea Level
Special Mention to: Philippe Grandrieux’s Un Lac and Huang Wenhai’s Women
Short Film Prizes
Golden Lion for best short film: Carlos Armella’s Tierra Y Pan
Special Mention to: Karchi Perlmann’s Vascora
U.I.P. Award for best European short film: Joost Van Ginkel’s Zand
Collateral Awards after the jump
