Sunday, September 11, 2016

Latinos Win Big at The 73rd Venice International Film Festival

By José Alberto Hermosillo

The Latino talent shined at the 73er Venice Film Festival. 

From Mexico, “La región salvaje” (The Untamed) by Amat Escalante (“Los Bastardos,” “Heli”) won the best director. 

Amat Escalante with this win become one of the select group of directors winning Venice and Cannes; Scorsese, Kusturica, and Paul Thomas Anderson are the only four directors winning both film festivals.
Argentine actor Oscar Martinez took the Coppa Volpi award for best actor for his work in the film “El ciudadano ilustre” (The Distinguished Citizen).

Noah Oppenheim won the best screenplay for "Jackie" directed by Pablo Larrain (Chile). 

In the Orizzonti Competition, Spanish actress Ruth Díaz took home the best actress award for her interpretation in “Tarde para la ira” (The Fury of a Patient Man).

The Orizzonti Award for Best Short went to “La voz perdida” (The Lost Voice) from Paraguay, Venezuela, and Cuba.

The Venezia 73er Jury:
Chaired by Sam Mendes and integrated by Laurie Anderson, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Nina Hoss, Chiara Mastroianni, Joshua Oppenheimer, Lorenzo Vigas and Zhao Wei awarded the following films:
THE VENEZIA WINNERS ARE:

GOLDEN LION for Best Film to:
ANG BABAENG HUMAYO (THE WOMAN WHO LEFT)
by Lav Diaz  (Philippines).
SILVER LION - GRAND JURY PRIZE to:
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
by Tom Ford (USA)

SILVER LION - AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR ex-aequo to:
Andrei Konchalovsky
for the film PARADISE (Russian Federation, Germany)
Amat Escalante
for the film LA REGIÓN SALVAJE (THE UNTAMED)
(Mexico, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland).
COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actress:
Emma Stone
in the film LA LA LAND by Damien Chazelle (USA)
COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actor:
Oscar Martínez
in the film EL CIUDADANO ILUSTRE by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat
(Argentina, Spain)

AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to:
Noah Oppenheim
for the film JACKIE by Pablo Larraín (UK)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to:
THE BAD BATCH by Ana Lily Amirpour (USA)
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD
for Best Young Actress to:
Paula Beer
in the film FRANTZ by François Ozon (France, Germany)

LION OF THE FUTURE
“LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM to:
Akher Wahed Fina (The Last of Us) by Ala Eddine Slim
(Tunisia, Qatar, U.A.E., Lebanon)
VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS WEEK.
A prize of 100,000 USD, donated by Filmauro of Aurelio and Luigi De Laurentiis.

ORIZZONTI AWARDS

The ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST FILM to:
LIBERAMI  by Federica Di Giacomo (Italy, France)

The ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR to:
Fien Troch
for HOME (Belgium)

The SPECIAL ORIZZONTI JURY PRIZE to:
KOCA DÜNYA (BIG BIG WORLD)
by Reha Erdem (Turkey)

The ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS to:
Ruth Díazin the film TARDE PARA LA IRA by Raúl Arévalo (Spain)

The ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR to:
Nuno Lopes in the film  SÃO JORGE by Marco Martins (Portugal, France)

The ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to:
KU QIAN (BITTER MONEY) by Wang Bing (France, Hong Kong)

The ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM to:
LA VOZ PERDIDA by Marcelo Martinessi (Paraguay, Venezuela, Cuba)

The VENICE SHORT FILM NOMINATION FOR THE
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2016 to:
AMALIMBO by Juan Pablo Libossart (Sweden, Estonia).
VENICE CLASSICS AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY ON CINEMA to:
LE CONCOURS  by Claire Simon (France)

The VENICE CLASSICS AWARD FOR BEST RESTORED FILM to:
BREAK UP – L’UOMO DEI CINQUE PALLONI by Marco Ferreri
(1963 and 1967, Italy, France)

GOLDEN LION FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 2016 to:
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO and
JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI

JAEGER-LECOULTRE GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER AWARD 2016 to:
Amir Naderi

PERSOL TRIBUTE TO VISIONARY TALENT AWARD 2016 to:
Liev Schreiber

L’ORÉAL PARIS PER IL CINEMA AWARD to:
Matilde Gioli.
Amat Escalante, LA REGIÓN SALVAJE (THE UNTAMED) and cast.

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