The Venice Film Festival has now handed out its awards, and Yorgos Lanthimos has clinched the top prize with his latest feature Poor Things, starring Emma Stone. Scroll down for the winners list.
The Greek filmmaker’s latest, which also stars Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo, is based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name and follows Stone as Bella Baxter, a creation of the brilliant and unorthodox scientist played by Dafoe in an echo of Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel Frankenstein. Ruffalo plays a slick and debauched lawyer.
Dedicating the award to his lead actress, Lanthimos said Poor Things “without Emma Stone.”
“This film is her in front and behind the camera,” he added.
Elsewhere, Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi took the Grand Jury Prize with Evil Does Not Exist, his follow-up to Drive My Car. Priscilla breakout Cailee Spaeny took the Best Actress prize for her performance in Sofia Coppola’s biopic while Best Actor went to Peter Sarsgaard for Memory, by Michel Franco.
Check out the full list of winners below:
VENICE 79Golden LionPoor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos
Silver Lion Grand Jury PrizeEvil Does Not Exist, Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Silver Lion Best DirectorMatteo Garrone, Io Capitano
Special Jury PrizeGreen Border, Agnieszka Holland
Best ScreenplayPablo Larrain and Guillermo Calderón, El Conde
Best ActressCailee Spaeny, Priscilla
Best ActorPeter Sarsgaard, Memory
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or ActressSeydou Sarr, Io Capitano
HORIZONSBest FilmExplanation For Everything, Gábor Reisz
Best DirectorMika Gustafson, Paradise Is Burning
Special Jury PrizeUna Sterminata Domenica, Alain Parroni
Best ActressMargarita Rosa De Francisco, El Paraiso
Best ActorTergel Bold-Erdene, City of Wind
Best ScreenplayEl Paraiso, Enrico Maria Artale
Best Short FilmA Short Trip, Erenik Beqiri
Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut FilmLove Is A Gun, Lee Hong-Chi
HORIZONS EXTRAAudience AwardFELICITÀ (HAPPINESS), Micaela Ramazzotti
VENICE CLASSICS
Best DocumentaryThank You Very Much, Alex Braverman
Best Restored FilmOHIKKOSHI (MOVING), Shinji Somai
VENICE IMMERSIVE
Grand Jury PrizeSongs For A Passerby, Celine Daemen
Special Jury PrizeFlow, Adriaan Lokman
Immersive Achievement PrizeEmperor, Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen
