All photographs courtesy La Biennale di
Venezia
Venice: Awards of the 71st Venice
Film Festival. The Venezia 71, La Biennale di Venezia cinema,
directed by Alberto Barbera the jury was chaired by Alexandre Desplat and
comprised of Joan Chen, Philip Groning, Jessica Hausner, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandy
Powell, Tim Roth, Elia Suleiman and Carlo Verdone, having viewed all 20 films in
competition, decided the following:
GOLDEN LION for Best Film. EN DUVA
SATT PÅ EN GREN OCH FUNDERADE PÅ TILLVARON (A Pigeon sat on a Branch
Reflecting on Existence) by Roy Andersson.
Above. Director Roy Andersson and
the president of the La Biennale di Venezia Paolo Baratta.
THE AWARDS VENICE 71. The jury
chaired by Alexandre Desplat, comprised of Joan Chen, Philip Gröning,
Jessica Hausner, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandy Powell, Tim Roth, Elia Suleiman and Carlo
Verdone.
SILVER LION for Best Director: Andrej
Koncalovskij for the film BELYE NOCHI POCHTALONA ALEKSEYA TRYAPITSYNA - (The
Postman’s White Nights).
GRAND JURY PRIZE. THE LOOK OF
SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer.
COPPA VOLPI: for Best Actor to Adam
Driver and Best Actress to Alba Rohrwacher - in the film HUNGRY HEARTS by
Saverio Costanzo.
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD - Best
Young Actor or Actress. Romain Paul in the film LE DERNIER COUP DE MARTEAU by
Alix Delaporte.
AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY. Rakhshan Banietemad and Farid Mostafavi for
the film GHESSEHA (Tales) by Rakhshan Banietemad.
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE. SIVAS by Kaan
Mujdeci.
LION OF THE FUTURE – “LUIGI DE
LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM.
Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film. The Jury at the 71st Venice Film Festival,
chaired by Alice Rohrwacher, comprised of Lisandro Alonso, Ron Mann, Vivian Qu
and Razvan Radulescu. COURT by Chaitanya Tamhane who also got the Orizzonti
Award for Best Film.
ORIZZONTI AWARDS. The Orizzonti Jury of the 71st Venice Film
Festival, chaired by Ann Hui was composed by Moran Atias, Pernilla August,
David Chase, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Roberto Minervini and Alin Tasciyan and after
screening the 29 films in competition decided to award:
ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST
DIRECTOR. Naji Abu Nowar for THEEB.
Above. The Theeb film delegation.
SPECIAL ORIZZONTI JURY PRIZE. BELLUSCONE.
UNA STORIA SICILIANA by Franco Maresco.
SPECIAL ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST
ACTOR OR ACTRESS: Emir Hadzihafizbegovic in the film TAKVA SU PRAVILA (These
are the rules) by Ognjen Svilicic.
ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST SHORT
FILM: MARYAM by Sidi Saleh.
VENICE SHORT FILM NOMINATION FOR THE
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2014: PAT – LEHEM (Daily Bread) by Idan Hubel.
GOLDEN LION FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 2014: Thelma Schoonmaker and Frederick Wiseman.
JAEGER-LECOULTRE GLORY TO THE
FILMMAKER AWARD 2014: James Franco, in the photograph with director of Venice
71 Alberto Barbera.
PERSOL TRIBUTE VISIONARY TALENT
AWARD 2014: Frances McDormand.
L’OREAL PARIS PER IL CINEMA AWARD:
Valentina Corti.
All photographs – above - courtesy La Biennale
di Venezia
Carlo Verdone
Contessanally Thanks – La Biennaledi Venezia for the photographs above and provided for the Venice 71 Film
Festival posts.