Venice Film Festival 2025 Winners: Jim Jarmusch Wins Golden Lion

Jim Jarmusch was the big winner at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, taking home the Golden Lion (Best Film) for his new film "Father Mother Sister Brother". The Silver Lion for best director went to Benny Safdie for his biopic "The Smashing Machine" starring Dwayne Johnson, while the Gaza drama "The Voice of Hind Rajab" won the Grand Jury prize.

The jury this year consisted of Alexander Payne ("Sideways", "About Schmidt", "The Holdovers"), Fernanda Torres ("I'm Still Here"), Mohammad Rasoulof ("The Seed of the Sacred Fig"), Cristian Mungiu ("4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"), Stephane Brize ("Out of Season"), Maura Delpero ("Vermiglio") and Zhao Tao ("Caught by the Tides").

Read the complete list of 2025 Venice Film Festival winners after the jump.

Venice Film Festival 2024 Awards Winners - The Complete List

After a week and a half, we now have the winners of the prestigious Venice Film Festival awards. The Golden Lion award for Best Film went to Pedro Almodovar's "The Room Next Door", the filmmaker's first English-language feature, which received a 17-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the festival. The film is an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's novel "What Are You Going Through", and it stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

The Silver Lion best director prize went to Brady Corbet for "The Brutalist" starring Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones. Nicole Kidman took home the best actress actress award for her role in the erotic thriller "Babygirl" opposite Antonio Banderas and Harris Dickinson, while Vincent Lindon won best actor for his performance in "The Quiet Son". The Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize went to "Vermiglio" by Maura Delpero, and The Special Jury Prize went to "April", directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili.

The Venice Film Festival's 81st edition jury was presided over by Isabelle Huppert and comprised filmmakers James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, Julia von Heinz and actress Zhang Ziyi.

Read the complete list of 2024 Venice Film Festival awards after the jump.

Venice Film Festival 2023 Winners - The Complete List

The winners of the 80th Venice International Film Festival have been revealed. The jury led by Damien Chazelle picked Yorgos Lanthimo's "Poor Things" starring Emma Stone as the winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film. Matteo Garrone won the best director award for his migration drama "Me Captain". Cailee Spaeny won best actress for her portrayal of Priscilla Presley in Sofia Coppola's "Priscilla", while Peter Sarsgaard won best actor for Michel Franco's "Memory", playing a man suffering from dementia. Polish director Agnieszka Holland won a special jury award for "Green Border".

Find out more about the movie after the jump.

French Abortion Drama L'EVENEMENT / HAPPENING Wins Top Prize at Venice Film Festival

The 78th Annual Venice Film Festival's jury led by Bong Joon Ho gave the Golden Lion for Best Film to French director Audrey Diwan's 1963-set abortion drama "L'Evénement" ("Happening"). Paolo Sorrentino's "The Hand of God" took the runner-up Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize as well as the Marcello Mastroianni Award for for Best New Young Actor or Actress for Filippo Scotti.

Jane Campion took home the Best Director award for "The Power of the Dog", while Maggie Gyllenhaal won Best Screenplay for her feature directing debut "The Lost Daughter". Penélope Cruz took the Volpi Cup Best Actress prize for Pedro Almodóvar's "Parallel Mothers".

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JOKER Wins Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award

Todd Phillips' "Joker", a film focusing on the origin story of the titular DC Comics supervillain, has triumphed at this year's Venice Film Festival, taking home the Golden Lion jury award. Accepting the award, Phillips praised the film's star Joaquin Phoenix, who has been receiving heaps of praise from critics for his fearless performance:

"There is no movie without Joaquin Phoenix. Joaquin is the fiercest and brightest and most open-minded lion I know. Thank you for trusting me with your insane talent."

The reason Phoenix walked away from the festival empty-handed is because the Venice Film Festival has a rule in place that prevents a film from winning both the Golden Lion, and the Volpi Cup Best Actor prize.

This win could boost the film's awards season chances, much like it did for Guillermo del Toro's 2017 Best Picture oscar winner "The Shape of Water". On the other hand, last year's Golden Lion winner "Roma", which raked in 10 Academy Award nominations, ultimately lost Best Picture to "Green Book". Even if it won't win, at this point it's a safe bet that "Joker" will get some Best Picture attention, and Phoenix will definitely get a Best Actor nod.

Here's what jury member Mary Harron had to say about "Joker", after the awards ceremony:

"They took a comic book mythology that has been done in so many ways and overturned it and revitalized it for now".

Meanwhile, Roman Polanski took the runner-up Grand Jury Prize for his film "An Officer and a Spy" ("J'accuse").

Check out the full list of 2019 Venice Film Festival winners after the jump.

Alfonso Cuaron's ROMA (2018) - Trailers, Featurettes, Images and Posters

Written, directed, produced, co-edited and photographed by Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron ("Gravity"), the drama "Roma" is set in the 1970s and it chronicles a year in the life of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. The film also stars Marina de Tavira, Fernando Grediaga, Jorge Antonio Guerrero and Marco Graf.

"Roma" premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion. It was released in select theaters on November 21, 2018 and began streaming on Netflix on December 14, 2018. The film is also nominated for three Golden Globes (Best Screenplay, Director and Foreign Language Film).

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Venice Film Festival Complete Winners List

Alfonso Cuaron was the big winner at the 75th Venice International Film Festival. His new film "Roma" was awarded the Golden Lion for best film. This is the first film Cuaron has made in Mexico since 2001's "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and the director has said that it was "something very personal, because we made a film set in the '70s, with many elements and experiences of my childhood".

The Silver Lion for best director went to Jacques Audiard for the darkly comic western "The Sisters Brothers" starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly. The Silver Lion Grand Jury prize was awarded to Yorgos Lanthimos for "The Favorite" starring Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone. Colman also won Best Actress for her role in the film, while Willem Dafoe received the Best Actor award for playing Vincent van Gogh in the biopic "At Eternity’s Gate.". The best screenplay award went to Joel and Ethan Coen's "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs".

Read the complete list of 2018 Venice Film Festival winners after the jump.

FOXTROT (2017) - Trailers, Clips, Images and Posters

Written and directed by Samuel Maoz, the Israeli drama "Foxtrot" follows a troubled couple who must come to terms with the death of their son, who was a soldier at a desolate military post. The film stars Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray and Shira Haas.

"Foxtrot" won the Grand Jury Prize Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival. It also made the December shortlist for the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 90th Academy Awards, but ultimately did not receive a nomination. The film sparked some controversy in its depiction of Israeli military, leading to the denouncement of the film by Israel's Minister of Culture.

The film received a limited release in theaters on March 2, 2018 in the U.S.

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THE SHAPE OF WATER Wins Golden Lion at 2017 Venice Film Festival

The winners of this year's Venice Film Festival have been announced. Mexican director Guillermo del Toro's highly acclaimed fantasy romance "The Shape of Water" was the big winner, taking home the Golden Lion for best film. And for once it seems like everyone is in agreement that the film is deserving of the honor that was bestowed upon it. The film has received unanimous praise from critics and has already sparked some furious Academy Awards buzz. "The Shape of Water" is set to premiere in the U.S. on December 8th.

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2013 Venice Film Festival Award Winners

The winners for the 70th Venice Film Festival have been announced. The Golden Lion award for Best film went to Gianfranco Rosi for the documentary "Sacro Gra". "Pineapple Express" director David Gordon Green's new movie "Joe" starring Nicolas Cage did not leave empty handed. The drama took home the Best Young Actor award for Tye Sheridan's performance. Also, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope won the Best Screenplay award for Stephen Frears' "Philomena" starring Judi Dench.

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Venice Film Festival 2012 Winners

Paul Thomas Anderson's much-hyped and eagerly awaited drama "The Master" has registered its first major awards season victory at the Venice Film Festival. The movie received the awards for Best Director and Best Actor (shared between Joaquin Pheonix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman). The award for Best Picture initially went to "The Master", but because the festival's rules only allow a movie to win no more than two major awards, the jury chose to present the Golden Lion to Kim-Ki Duk's "Pieta". The award for Best Actress was presented to Hadas Yaron for her performance in "Fill the Void". Olivier Assayas won the award for Best Screenplay for "Something in the Air" and the Special Jury Award went to Ulrich Seidl's "Paradise: Faith".

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