Venice Film Festival Awards Winners List: Who Won Golden Lion

The Venice Film Festival closing ceremony is underway, and it will soon be revealed which movie is taking home the prestigious Golden Lion for best film.

Hostess Emanuela Faneli began the ceremony briskly by reminding the audience of the honorary awardees this edition: Werner Herzog, Gus Van Sant and Julian Schnabel, before the first winner of in the Venice Immersive section was announced: “The Long Goodbye” by  Kate Voet and Victor Maes, who said they were “overwhelmed with joy at this honor.”

“So many people have a connection to the theme of dementia,” said Maes before dedicating the award to his grandfather as the music played him off.

Négar Motevalymeidanshah, accepting her award for Immersive title “Less than 5gr of Saffron,” said: “I long for a time when no children of any land — not my land, Iran or anywhere — are forced into exile, may that day come soon.” And the Grand Prix in the Immersive section goes to “The Clouds are 2,000m Up” by Singing Chen, who described it as “a story about grief, memory and love and the unique culture of Taiwan. We wanted to bring the audience fully inside this story of loss and connection.” According to Chen, the work represents “two years of passion from my crew,” whom she thanked as the music threatened to drown her out.

Last year, Pedro Almodóvar took home the prize for “The Room Next Door,” starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. Brady Corbet won the Silver Lion for best director for his work on “The Brutalist,” which went on to win three Oscars, and Nicole Kidman scored the Volpi Cup for best actress.

Films competing for this year’s Golden Lion include Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” Olivier Assayas’ “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” Cai Shangjun’s “The Sun Rises on Us All,” Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament of Ann Lee,” Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice,” Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” and Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia,” among others.

The competition jury is headed up by “The Holdovers” director Alexander Payne and comprises Oscar-nominated Brazilian actress and writer Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”), prominent Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”), Palme d’Or-winning Romanian director-writer-producer Cristian Mungiu (“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”), French director Stéphane Brizé (“Out of Season”), Italian director Maura Delpero (“Vermiglio”) and Chinese actor and producer Zhao Tao (“Caught by the Tides”).

See all the award winners below, updating live.

COMPETITION

Golden Lion for Best Film:

Grand Jury Prize:

Silver Lion for Best Director:

Special Jury Prize:

Best Screenplay:

Volpi Cup for Best Actress:

Volpi Cup for Best Actor:

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor:

HORIZONS

Best Film:

Best Director:

Special Jury Prize:

Best Actress:

Best Actor:

Best Screenplay: “Hiedra” (“The Ivy”), Ana Cristina Barragán

Best Short Film: “Without Kelly,” Lovisa Sirén

Venice Spotlight Audience Award:

Luigi De Laurentis Award for Debut Film:

VENICE CLASSICS

Best Documentary on Cinema: “Mata Hari,” Joe Beshenkovsky and James A. Smith

Best Restored Film: “Bashu, the Little Stranger,” Bahram Beizai

VENICE IMMERSIVE

Grand Prize: “The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up,” Singing Chen

Special Jury Prize: “Less Than 5gr of Saffron,” Négar Motevalymeidanshah

Achievement Prize: “A Long Goodbye,” Kate Voet and Victor Maes