Venice Film Festival, Aug. 31-Sept. 10, 2022

[Chris Knipp]

Venice 2022 Awards


LAURA POITRAS RECEIVES THE 'LEONE D'ORO'

Best film:
Golden Lion goes to Laura Poitras for her documentary about Nan Golden and the Sackler family and the US opioid epidemic, ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED. (For the Filmleaf description of ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, see HERE.) Poitras previously won the Oscar for her Edward Snowden documentary debuted at the 2014 NYFF, CITIZEN FOUR.

"Runner-up" title went to Alice Diop's SAINT OMER, feature about a woman on trial for infanticide. “...extraordinary first fiction feature...” "using the trial of a Senegalese woman guilty of killing her infant to honestly explore the complexities of motherhood while foregrounding it all within France’s racist currents." -Jay Weissberg (THE FILM VERDICT).

The last two GOLDEN LIONS were to Audrey Diwan for HAPPENING (2021) and Chloé Zhao for NOMADLAND (2020).

Best Director:
Silver Lion goes to Luca Guadagnino for BONES AND ALL starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell in a young cannibal romance road picture.

Best young actress
Taylor Russell in BONES AND ALL

Acting awards:
BEST ACTRESS: To CATE BLANCHETT for her starring role in Todd Field's TÁR, playing an orchestra leader.
BEST ACTOR: To COLIN FARRELL for his role in Martin McDonach's THE BANSHEES OF INISHIRIN.

Best Screenplay:
MARTIN MCDONAGH for THE BANSHEES OF ININSHIRIN

Special Award:
Jafar Panahi for NO BEARS. Panahi has now been jailed in Iran on a six-year former charge not previously enforced.