The 2019 Venice International Film Festival has wrapped, and this year’s edition has announced its award winners.
The Golden Lion, the festival’s top laureate, went to “Joker,” which is a strong statement from this year’s competition jury led by Lucrecia Martel.
See the complete list of this year’s winners below.In recent years, the Venice Golden Lion has gone to films that went on to have legs in the awards-season conversation stateside.
Last year’s Lion went to Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” which won three Academy Awards for Netflix but lost Best Picture to “Green Book.” The year prior, the Golden Lion went to Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water,” which won Best Picture at the Oscars in 2018.In a surprise upset over Joaquin Phoenix in hot competition title “Joker,” Best Actor went to Luca Marinelli for his titular turn in the Jack London adaptation “Martin Eden.
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