Venice Film Festival 2016 winners list: Emma Stone wins Best Actress for La La Land leading to early Oscar buzz
The Golden Lion went to Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left
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Your support makes all the difference.Lav Diaz’s Filipino drama The Woman Who Left scooped the highest prize given at the Venice Film Festival 2016, The Golden Lion, while Tom Ford’s second feature-length film, Nocturnal Animals, triumphed, taking the Grand Jury Prize.
Emma Stone took Best Actress for her role in La La Land, one of the best-reviewed films from the festival, leading to early Oscar buzz.
Meanwhile, the Natalie Portman-starring Jackie - a study of Jackie Kennedy that has also received rave reviews - won Best Screenplay.
The jury was overseen by Skyfall and Spectre director Sam Mandes, with notable absentees from the winners list including Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival and Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time.
Venice Film Festival winners list
Golden Lion:
The Woman Who Left, Lav Diaz
Grand Jury Prize:
Nocturnal Animals, dir: Tom Ford
Silver Lion, Best Director:
Amat Escalante, La Region Salvaje
Andrei Konchalovsky, Paradise
Volpi Cup, Best Actress:
Emma Stone, La La Land
Volpi Cup, Best Actor:
Oscar Martinez, El Ciudadano Ilustre
Best Screenplay:
Noah Oppenheim, Jackie
Special Jury Prize:
The Bad Batch, dir: Ana Lily Amirpour
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress:
Paula Beer, Frantz
Venice Horizons
Best Film:
Liberami, dir: Federica Di Giacomo
Best Director:
Fien Troch, Home
Special Jury Prize:
Big Big World, dir: Reha Erdem
Best Actress:
Ruth Diaz, The Fury Of A Patient Man
Best Actor:
Nuno Lopes, Sao Jorge
Best Screenplay:
Wang Bing, Bitter Money
Best Short Film:
La Voz Perdida, dir: Marcelo Martinessi
Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film:
The Last Of Us, dir: Ala Eddine Slim
Venice Classics:
Best Restoration:
Break-Up – The Man With The Balloons, dir: Marco Ferreri
Best Documentary on Cinema:
Le Concours, dir: Claire Simon
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