76th Venice International Film Festival

The 76th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 7 September 2019, at Venice Lido in Italy.

Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel was the jury president for the main competition. Alessandra Mastronardi hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival. The Golden Lion was awarded to Joker by Todd Phillips.

The festival opened with The Truth by Hirokazu Kore-eda, and closed with The Burnt Orange Heresy by Giuseppe Capotondi.

Juries

Main Competition (Venezia 76)

• Lucrecia Martel, Argentine filmmaker - Jury President
• Piers Handling, Canadian film historian and critic, executive director of the Toronto International Film Festival
• Mary Harron, Canadian filmmaker
• Stacy Martin, French actress
• Rodrigo Prieto, Mexican cinematographer
• Shinya Tsukamoto, Japanese filmmaker and actor
• Paolo Virzì, Italian filmmaker

Orizzonti

• Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italian filmmaker - Jury President
• Mark Adams, artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
• Rachid Bouchareb, French filmmaker
• Álvaro Brechner, Uruguayan filmmaker
• Eva Sangiorgi, artistic director of the Vienna International Film Festival

Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film

• Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker and actor - Jury President
• Antonietta De Lillo, Italian director and screenwriter
• Terence Nance, American filmmaker
• Hend Sabry, Tunisian actress
• Michael J. Werner, American-Hongkongese film producer

Venice Virtual Reality

• Laurie Anderson, American composer, artist and director - Jury President
• Francesco Carrozzini, Italian photographer
• Alysha Naples, Italian designer

Venice Classics

• Costanza Quatriglio, Italian director and screenwriter

Official Section

In Competition

The following films were selected for the main international competition:

Out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

Orizzonti

The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:

Venice Classics

The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:

Sconfini

The following films were selected for the Sconfini section:

Independent Sections

Venice International Critics' Week

The following films were selected for the 34th Venice International Critics' Week ():

Giornate degli Autori

The following films were selected for the 16th edition of the Giornate degli Autori section:

Official Awards

In Competition

• Golden Lion: Joker by Todd Phillips
• Grand Jury Prize: An Officer and a Spy by Roman Polanski
• Silver Lion: Roy Andersson for About Endlessness
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Ariane Ascaride for Gloria Mundi
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Luca Marinelli for Martin Eden
• Best Screenplay: No.7 Cherry Lane by Yonfan
• Special Jury Prize: The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be by Franco Maresco
• Marcello Mastroianni Award: Toby Wallace for Babyteeth

Orizzonti

• Best Film: Atlantis by Valentyn Vasyanovych
• Best Director: Théo Court for White on White
• Special Jury Prize: Verdict by Raymund Ribas Gutierrez
• Best Actress: Marta Nieto for Madre
• Best Actor: Sami Bouajila for A Son
• Best Screenplay: Back Home by Jessica Palud
• Horizons Prize for Best Short: Darling by Saim Sadiq

Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film (Lion of the Future)

• You Will Die at Twenty by Amjad Abu Alala

Venezia Classici Awards

• Best Documentary on Cinema: '
• Best Restored Film: Ecstasy (1933)

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

• Pedro Almodóvar
• Julie Andrews

Independent Sections Awards

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:

Giornate degli Autori

• GdA Director's Award: La Llorona by Jayro Bustamante
• Europa Cinemas Label: Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa

Independent Awards

SIAE Award

• Marco Bellocchio for The Traitor

Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award

• Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger for The Burnt Orange Heresy

Campari Passion for the Cinema Award

• Luca Bigazzi for The New Pope

Bresson Award

• Lucrecia Martel

References

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