Venice 2022: After the event, the Golden Lion was awarded to another director, Colin Farrell and Cate Blanchett

After Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) and Audrey Divan (L’Événement), another director wins at the Venice Film Festival. But in another register. American filmmaker Laura Poitras (who, in particular, owes the Oscar-winning Citizenfour to Edward Snowden) indeed won the Golden Lion of the 79th edition thanks to her new documentary: All the beauty and blood that returns to the artist-photographer. Nan Goldin’s activism on the opiate drug scandal in the United States echoes her Dopesick series.

American Golden Lion awards list with a strong Anglo-Saxon trend: Fifteen years after her triumph I’m not, Australia’s Cate Blanchett took the prize for best actress for Todd Field’s biopic Tár (released on February 22). , 2023), on the German conductor of the same name.

And Ireland’s Colin Farrell took the male category for his performance in The Banshees of Inisherin (in cinemas December 28), directed by Britain’s Martin McDonagh, who has already made Kisses of Bruges and 7 Psychopaths. And if the festival is successful, then the jury led by Julianne Moore offered him a second screenplay prize, 3 Billboard prizes five years later.

Another Lido double: the Italian-American film Bones and All, a cannibal love story, was awarded thanks to its director Luca Guadagnino and its actor Taylor Russell, who received the Marcello Mastroianni prize for best hope.

And the French in all this? Thanks to a massive delegation led by Rebecca Zlotowski or Roshdi Zem, they made the list twice only thanks to Alice Diop. César for Best Documentary Short Film of 2017 for Vers la tendresse, the director did not miss his passage for long.

Very well received by the press, Saint-Omer received the Future Lion for Best First Film and the Grand Jury Prize. From distributor Les Films du Losange, this drama about a young novelist who attends the trial of a woman accused of her son’s death has no release date yet. But it needs to be unlocked soon to make it the next César (and Best Foreign Film Oscar?) contender that it already has. Its director was distinguished by a strong speech.

Finally, consider the jury’s gesture towards the Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who was arrested last July and had to serve six years in prison: his last opus to date, No Bear, indeed received a special prize, highly symbolic.

Complete winners of the 2022 Venice Competition

• Golden Lion: All the beauty and gore of Laura Poutras
• Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize: Saint Omer by Alice Diop
• Silver Lion – Best Achievement: Luca Guadagnino for Bones and All
• Volpe Trophy for Best Actress: For Cate Blanchett tar
• Wolpe Trophy for Best Actor: Colin Farrell for Banshee of Inisherin
• Best Screenplay Award: Martin McDonagh for Banshee of Inishrein
• Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Newcomer: Taylor Russell for Bones and All
• Special Jury Prize: No Bear by Jafar Panahi
• Future Lion for Best First Feature: Saint Omer by Alice Diop