Closing Ceremony of the 76th Venice Film Festival

The Official Awards of the 76th Venice Film Festival were announced by the five international Juries during the Awards Ceremony that was held on Saturday 7 September 2019 at 7:00 pm.

 

The Venezia 76 Jury, chaired by Lucrecia Martel, and comprised of Stacy Martin, Mary Harron, PiersHandling, Rodrigo Prieto, Shinya Tsukamoto, Paolo Virzì, having viewed all 21 films in competition, has decided as follows:

 

GOLDEN LION for Best Film to:
JOKER
by Todd Phillips (USA)

 

SILVER LION - GRAND JURY PRIZE to:
J’ACCUSE
by Roman Polanski (France, Italy)

 

SILVER LION - AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR to:
Roy Andersson
for the film OM DET OÄNDLIGA (ABOUT ENDLESSNESS) (Sweden, Germany, Norway)

 

COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actress:
Ariane Ascaride
in the film GLORIA MUNDI by Robert Guédiguian (France, Italy)

 

COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actor:
Luca Marinelli
in the film MARTIN EDEN by Pietro Marcello (Italy, France)

 

AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to:
Yonfan
for the film JI YUAN TAI QI HAO (No.7 CHERRY LANE) by Yonfan (Hong Kong SAR, China)

 

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to:
LA MAFIA NON È PIÙ QUELLA DI UNA VOLTA
by Franco Maresco (Italy)

 

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD
for Best Young Actor or Actress to:
Toby Wallace
in the film BABYTEETH by Shannon Murphy (Australia)

 

For other awards, please see: https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/official-awards-76th-venice-film-festival

Two movies seen by the participants of our Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy (they also met the Directors), were awarded with:

GdA Director’s Award | Giornate degli Autori
LA LLORONA by Jayro Bustamante

 

Audience Award | Venice International Film Critics Week
ALL THIS VICTORY (JEEDAR EL SOT) by Ahmad Ghossein

 

Grand Prize Venice International Film Critic’s Week - SIAE | Venice International Film Critics Week
ALL THIS VICTORY (JEEDAR EL SOT) by Ahmad Ghossein

 

Mario Serandrei - | Venice International Film Critics Week
ALL THIS VICTORY (JEEDAR EL SOT) by Ahmad Ghossein

 

Photo credits: labiennale.org