The 81st Venice Film Festival awards

The jury, headed by President Isabelle Huppert, has announced its awards. The top prize goes to a popular director who has never won before, Pedro Almodovar, for his first Hollywood drama. The Grand Jury Prize went to Maura Delpero‘s classic but accurate Vermiglio , while the Director’s Prize went to Brady Corbet for his ambitious The brutalist, the Screenplay Prize to Walter Salles I’m still here and the Special Jury Prize to April from Dea Kulumbegashvili. The list of winners more or less echoes what could be heard in the aisles of the Palazio Casino and the Sala Grande, except for the choice of acting prizes. While the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress went to Nicole Kidman, who was absent yesterday due to the death of her mother the day before, for a role that was more sultry on paper than on screen, foreign critics questioned the awards given to Vincent Lindon (Daniel Craig and even Adrian Brody were more expected) and Paul Kircher, suspecting Isabelle Huppert of having sought to reward the two French films (Their childrem after thme by the Boukherma brothers, and Play with fire by the Coulin sisters).

Here is the complete awards list:

Golden Lion for best film : 

The room next door by Pedro Almodóvar

Silver Lion -Grand jury prize: 

Vermiglio by Maura Delpero

Silver Lion d’argent for best direction : 

The brutalist byBrady Corbet

Volpi Cup for best actress: 

Nicole Kidman in Babygirl by Halina Reijn

Volpi Cup for best actor: 

Vincent Lindon in Play with fire from Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin

Best script prize:

Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega for I’m still here by Walter Salles

Special jury prize: 

April by Dea Kulumbegashvili

Marcello Mastroianni Prize for best newcomer :

Paul Kircher in Thier children after them by Ludovic Boukherma and Zoran Boukherma

The Venice Film Festival also features a number of parallel competitions, and here are some complementary prize lists:

Orizzonti

Grand prize : 

The New Year that Never Came by Bogdan Mureşanu

Best direction : 

Sarah Friedland for Familiar Touch

Special jury prize: 

One of Those Days When Hemme Dies by Murat Fıratoğlu

Best actress :

Kathleen Chalfant in Familiar Touch

Best actor :

Francesco Gheghi in Familiar Touch

Best script : 

Happy holidays by Scandar Copti

Best short film : 

Who loves the sun by Arshia Shakiba

Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Award (first feature film selected at the Venice Film Festival) : 

Familiar Touch by Sarah Friedland

Orizzonti Extra

Audience Prize – Armani Beauty : 

Shahed by Nader Saeivar

VENICE CLASSICS

Best documentary on cinema : 

Chain Reaction by Alexandre O. Philippe

Best restored film: 

Ecce bombo by Nanni Moretti

VENICE IMMERSIVE

Grand prize :

 Ito Meikyu by Boris Labbé

Special jury prize: 

Oto’s Planet byGwenael François

Achievement prize

Impulse : Playing With Reality by Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla

Read our critical diary.

https://cinemareporters.com/misc/venice2024-critical-diary-official-selection