Please note that post will be In Progress until after the awards ceremony tomorrow.
With Toronto starting a couple of days ago and San Sebastian opening soon, 2016 Biennale has come and gone with too-much Hollywood-glitter for my taste and too-many media coverage for American films, stars and celebrities that for a moment felt more like any film festival but what La Mostra used to be. Perhaps there is some truth in those articles in American media about how organizers are "reviving" the festival and looking forward to make it the "Oscar predictor". Deep in my heart hope that is NOT truth and La Biennale Cinema will continue to be a window for great Italian Cinema plus films from all over the world ... except America! (LOL)
Nevertheless here are the awards announced today.
Official Selection
Orizzonti Awards
Venezia Classici
Autonomous Sections
13th Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days
Venice Days Award: The War Show, Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon, Denmark and Finland
Label Europa Cinemas: Sameblod (Sami Blood), Amanda Kernell, Sweden, Denmark and Norway
Premio Laguna SUD
Best Film:
Best Italian Discovery:
People's Choice Award:
31st Settimana Internazionalle della Critica - Venice International Film Critics' Week
Mario Serandrei Award: Akher Wahed Fina (The Last of Us), Ala Eddine Slim, Tunisia, Qatar, UAE and Lebanon
Audience Award: Los Nadie, Juan Sebastian Mesa, Colombia
Collateral Awards
FIPRESCI Awards
Best Film of Venezia73:
Best Film of Autonomour/Collateral Sections:
SIGNIS Award:
FEDEORA Awards (Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean)
Venezia73 Best Film in Competition:
Giornati delgi Autori - Venice Days
Best Film: 再見瓦城 Zai Jian Wa Cheng (The Road to Mandalay) by Midi Z, Myanmar, Taiwan, China, France and Germany
Best Debut Filmmaker: Amanda Kernell for Sameblod (Sami Blood), Sweden, Denmark and Norway
Best Actress: Ashleigh Cummings in Hounds of Loveby Ben Young, Australia
Best European Film: Ne gledaj mi u pijat (Quit Staring at My Plate), Hana Jušić, Croatia and Denmark
Settimana Internazionale della Critica
Best Film:
Best Cinematography:
Arca Cinema Giovani Award
Best Film Venezia 73:Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, USA
Best Itlian Film: Orecchie (Ears), Alessandro Aronadio, Italy
FEDIC Award: Indivisibili (Indivisible), Edoardo De Angelis, Italy
Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award:
Francesco Pasinetti Awards
Venice Days
Best Film: Indivisibili (Indivisible) by Edoardo De Angelis, Italy
Best Actor: Michele Riondino in La Ragazza del Mondo (Worldly Girl), Marco Danieli, Italy
Best Actress: Sara Serraiocco in La Ragazza del Mondo (Worldly Girl), Marco Danieli, Italy
Special Mention: Angela and Marianna Fontana in Indivisibili (Indivisible), Edoardo De Angelis, Italy
Future Film Festival Digital Award
Green Drop Award (tie)
Spira Mirabilis, Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti, Italy and Switzerland
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey, Terrence Malick, USA and Germany
Online Critics Awards
Mouse d'Oro for Best Film in Competition: Jackie, Pablo Larraín, USA and Chile
Mouse d'Argento for Best Film Out of Competition: Austerlitz, Sergei Loznitsa, Germany
Queer Lion: Hjartasteinn (Heartstone) by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, Iceland and Denmark
Nuovo IMAIE Talent Award
Camilla Diana in Tommaso, Kim Rossi Stuart, Italy
Daniele Parisi in Orecchie (Ears), Alessandro Aronadio, Italy
Sorriso Diverso Venezia 2016 Award
Best Italian Film:
Best Film in a Foreign-Language
Soundtrack Stars Award: Andrei Konchalovsky for Rai (Paradise), Russia and Germany
Special Mention: Giuseppe Piccioni for Questi Giorni, Italy
Young Jury Mediterranean Experiences Festival
Best Film from the Mediterranean Award:
Young Jury Members of the Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Awards
Best Film
Ammesty International
Asso Musica
Best Innovative Budget Award:
Brian Award: La Ragazza del Mondo (Wordly Girl), Marco Danieli, Italy
Cinema for Unicef: Rai (Paradise), Andrei Konchalovsky, Russia and Germany
Civitas Vitae Award: Roan Johnson for Piuma, Italy
Coppa Codacons Ridateci i soldi: La La Land, Damien Chazelle, USA
Enrico Fulghignoni Award: Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation), Shubhashish Bhutiani, India
Gillo Pontecorvo-Arcobaleno Latino Award:
Gianni Astrei Award: Indivisibili (Indivisible), Edoardo De Angelis, Italy
Human Rights Nights Award:
Interfilm Award:
Lanterna Magica Award:
Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola Award: Na mlijecnom putu (Milky Road), Emir Kusturica, Serbia, UK and USA
Lina Mangiacapre Award: Indivisibili (Indivisible), Edoardo De Angelis, Italy
Lizzani Prize: La Ragazza del Mondo (Worldly Girl), Marco Danieli, Italy
Nuovo IMAIE Talent Award:
Open Award:
Padre Nazareno Taddei Award:
Schermi di Qualita - Carlo Mazzacurati Award:
Final Cut Awards (Post Production Support)
Félicité (Felicity), Alain Gomis, France, Senegal and Belgium
Isiko (The Wound), John Trengove, South Africa, Germany, France and Netherlands
Istiyad Ashba (Ghost Hunting), Raed Andoni, Palestine, France and Switzerland
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award: Amir Naderi
Biennale Special Award
L'Oreal Paris per il Cinema Award: Matilde Gioli
Persol Visonary Award: Liev Schreiber
Premi Pietro Bianchi: Ugo Gregoretti