The jury of the Venice Film Festival, chaired on this occasion by director Michael Mann, has announced the winners of this 69th edition of the contest.
The great winner was "The Master" by Paul Thomas Anderson, who won two of the most important awards, although finally the Golden Lion went to Kim Ki-duk's masterful film "Pietá".
The rule of the Italian competition that does not allow the same work to win a Volpi Cup for best performer and the Golden Lion for best film may have left "The Master" without the main prize of the festival.
"The Master" by Paul Thomas Anderson has been awarded the Silver Lion for best director and the Volpi Cup for best actor ex-aequo for its two protagonists, Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, becoming the great winner of this edition , with the award of the Golden Lion laureate.
"Pietá" by the South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, who has returned to give his best, after a few years much questioned, has won the Golden Lion for best film.
The Volpiu Cup for best actress went to the young Hadas Yaron for her role in "Lemale et Ha 'halal" Israeli film by Rama Burshtein and Yigal Bursztyn.
"Paradise: Glaube" by Austrian Ulrich Seidl has received the Special Jury Prize 'for showing the fanatic relationship of a woman towards Jesus Christ, which goes from the spiritual to the sexual and from there to the psychotic'.
One fime that has been very pleasantly surprised in this edition of the Mostra has been the one that has ended up winning the Best Screenplay Award, the work by Olivier Assayas about May 68 "Après mai".
Daniele Ciprì has been awarded the Best Technical Contribution award for the film «È status il figlio«.
And finally, Fabrizio Falco, both for his performance in «È stato il figlio» and in «Beautiful adormentata»Has won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Emerging Actor.
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