The Venice Film Festival draws to a close tonight with its glamorous awards gala, and while there was a sense on the ground that the 21-title main competition was a little behind the pace of recent years, the festival is still looking pretty good for an 81-year-old. Especially one who has spent the last 11 days stewing in the searing humidity of the Lido.
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In light of the kind of genuine, potentially crossover breakouts — like Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” last year — that kick off the Oscar race, there was also some speculation about whether this year’s jury might want to be less American in terms of its top Golden Lion pick (five of the last seven have gone to American productions or co-productions). But that was, of course, before American director Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” emerged as the closest thing to a consensus critical pick this year’s edition has fielded.
Here we will keep you updated live on the decisions of the main jury, chaired by Isabelle Huppert and consisting of filmmakers James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore and Julia von Heinz and actress Zhang Ziyi. And we will also announce the winners in the Horizons sidebar, where the jury of seven (chair Debra Granik, Ali Asgari, Soudade Kaadan, Christos Nikou, Tuva Novotny, Gábor Reisz, Valia Santella) made their selections from 19 feature films and the Horizons Short Film programme.
See the full list of Venice Film Festival award winners below: