Filipino director Lav Diaz's
drama The Woman Who Left won the 73rd Venice Film Festival's
Golden Lion.
The jury headed by Sam Mendes on Saturday night awarded the
prize to the black-and-white movie, which focuses on the life of
a wrongly-convicted schoolteacher when she leaves prison after
spending three decades behind bars.
Tom Ford's romantic noir Nocturnal Animals scooped the
Grand Jury prize.
Set in Los Angeles and Texas, it is the second movie
directed by the fashion designer after A Single Man (2009),
which also debuted in Venice.
The best director award was split between Mexico's Amat
Escalante, with The Untamed, and Russian filmmaker Andrei
Konchalovsky, who presented the Holocaust drama Paradise.
The special jury prize went to The Bad Batch by
Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour.
Emma Stone won the best actress prize for her role as Mia,
an aspiring actress and playwright in Damien Chazelle's musical
La La Land on the golden age of Hollywood, which opened the
festival on August 31.
Argentine actor Oscar Martinz won the best actor award for
his role as a Nobel-winning author who heads back to his
hometown for inspiration in the comedy The Distinguished Citizen
directed by Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn.
Noah Oppenheim won the best screenplay award for Jackie by
Chilean director Pablo Larrain.
The movie focuses on the four days following the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy and stars Natalie
Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy.
German actress Paula Beer won the Marcello Mastroianni
prize for best young performer with her role as a widow during
World War I in French director Francois Ozon's Frantz.
The Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future for best first
film went to Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim for the drama The
Last of Us on the surrealistic voyage of a Sub-Saharan migrant,
which screened in Critics' Week.
The documentary Liberami (set me free) by Federica di
Giacomo, on exorcism in Sicily, won the top award in the
Horizons section for the most cutting-edge films.
And the Horizons Special Jury Prize went to Turkish
director Reha Erdem for Big Big World.
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