75th Venice Film Festival Award Winners
As promised and because it's easy to read in one single place all winners, here are the winners of the 2018 Biennale Cinema. Watched awards live but ceremony was not much entertaining and with so many American movies in the festival I was not that much interested in learning winners (sigh) nor watching clips. Nevertheless I'm glad that most awards went to interesting possibilities and well-known and much-admired-by-me directors like Jacques Audiard, Yorgos Lanthimos and Julian Schanbel. Worth mentioning that Audiard's award relaxes me a bit as I'm still anxious about his first film in a language that is not his mother tongue as there are so-many disasters with so-few successes when extraordinary directors work on English-language productions. Sigh. Official Selection Golden Lion for Best Film : Roma , Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize : The Favourite , Yorgos Lanthimos, UK, Ireland and USA Special Jury Prize : The Nightingale , Jennifer Kent, Australi...