The eighty-first edition of the Venice International Film Festival ended on Saturday 7 September 2024 with the customary awards ceremony.
The Golden Lion for Best Film was awarded to The Room Next Door, the latest film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, produced by El Deseo, Movistar Plus+ and Washington Square Films, while the Silver Lion for Best Director went to Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, produced by Brookstreet Pictures, Kaplan Morrison and Andrew Lauren Pictures in association with Intake Films, Proton Cinema, Carte Blanche, Lip Sync, Meyohas Studios and Richmond Pictures
The Coppa Volpi for Best Actress went to Nicole Kidman for her performance in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, produced by 2AM, A24 and Man Up Film, while Vincent Lindon won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor for Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s The Quiet Son, produced by Curiosa Film and Felicita Films in co-production with France 3 Cinéma and Umedia and with the participation of Canal+ and France Télévision.
Here is the complete list of this edition’s award-winners:
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- Golden Lion for Best Film: The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar
- Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize: Vermiglio, Maura Delpero
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
- Coppa Volpi for Best Actress: Nicole Kidman in Babygirl
- Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Vincent Lindon in The Quiet Son
- Award for Best Screenplay: I’m Still Here, by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega
- Special Jury Price: April, Dea Kulumbegashvili
- Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress: Paul Kircher in And Their Children After Them
Orizzonti Section
- Orizzonti Award for Best Film: The New Year That Never Came, Bogdan Mureşanu
- Orizzonti Award for Best Director: Sarah Friedland for Familiar Touch
- Special Orizzonti Jury Prize: One of Those Days When Hemme Dies, Murat Firatoğlu
- Orizzonti Award for Best Actress: Kathleen Chalfant in Familiar Touch
- Orizzonti Award for Best Actor: Francesco Gheghi in Familia
- Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay: Scandar Copti, Happy Holidays
- Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film: Who Loves the Sun, Arshia Shakiba
- Venice Short Film Nomination For The European Film Awards 2024: René va alla guerra, Luca Ferri, Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa
Orizzonti Extra
- Audience Award- Armany Beauty: Shahed, Nader Saeivar
Venice Award for a Debut Film
- Lion of the Future “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film: Familiar Touch, Sarah Friedland
Venice Classics
- Venice Classics Award for Best Documentary: Chain Reactions, Alexandre O. Philippe
- Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Movie: Ecce Bombo, Nanni Moretti
Venice Immersive
- Venice Immersive Grand Prize: Ito Meikyū, Boris Labbé
- Venice Immersive Special Jury Prize: Oto’s Planet, Gwenaël François
- Venice Immersive Achievment Prize: Impulse – Playing with Reality, Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla
For further information please refer to the Biennale Cinema website.
📸 by Joshua Stannard
