The 2022 Venice Film Festival has awarded Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” the Golden Lion for Best Film, with Colin Farrell and Cate Blanchett taking the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor and Best Actress.
The Silver Lion for Best Direction went to Luca Guadagnino for “Bones and All”. The cannibal love story also saw co-star Taylor Russell win the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress.
In addition to Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin” won Best Screenplay for writer-director Martin McDonagh. The film, which follows an abrupt breakup between two best friends (“In Bruges” co-stars Farrell and Brendan Gleeson), He received a 13-minute standing ovation at its premiere on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Blanchett won her second Volpi Cup (following her performance as Bob Dylan in 2007’s “I’m Not There”) for portraying the world-renowned songwriter in the center of Todd Field’s “Tár.”
“Saint Omer”, the first narrative feature film by documentary filmmaker Alice Diop, also won two trophies. The courtroom drama won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize and the Lion of the Future Luigi De Laurentis Award for Debut Film.
Rounding out the top prizes is Jafar Panahi’s metafictional love triangle “No Bears,” which won the Special Jury Prize.
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