Venice Film Festival Awards 2022 (live update)

All eyes are on the Lido as the 2022 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony begins.

The official ceremony for the 79th edition began a few minutes ago and, after one of the best billboards at the festival in years, anyone can walk away with this year’s Golden Lion for Best Picture.

holy omerFrench documentary filmmaker Alice Diop’s first feature-length narrative took home the first major honor of the night, the Lion of the Future Award for Best First Feature Film. In the legal drama, Diop tells the story of the trial of a Franco-Senegalese mother who committed infanticide.

The Venice Immersive lineup recognizes excellence in VR filmmaking with the Best Experience Award. The Man Who Couldn’t Leave Singing from Chen. The Grand Jury Prize was awarded from the main square From the Brazilian director Pedro Hares, with a special award from the jury egg landscape by the German Heller.

The award for best restored film went to the 1967 Japanese crime classic. A mark to kill By Seijun Suzuki.

fragments of the sky Directed by KD Davidson, it won the Venice Film Festival award for Best Documentary. The film follows the life of Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the “Godfather” of avant-garde cinema, from his arrival in exile in New York in 1949 until his death in 2019.

The Armani Beauty Audience Award, voted on by Venice viewers, went to the Syrian war drama. Nezuh Kadani Sudani.

This year there are four films in competition – by Noah Baumbach white noisealexander g inarritu BardAndré Dominick blondeand Romain Gavras Athena — Netflix is ​​looking for a repeat of 2018 when Alfonso Cuarón Pomegranate Venice won, kicking off a phenomenal awards campaign that clinched a triple Oscar win for the Mexican drama. Last year, Jane Campion won the Best Director award in Venice. the power of the dogAnother Netflix title, it also announced its Oscar campaign, where Campion won the Best Director award.

Awards predictors will be keeping an eye on the acting categories in Venice. Cate Blanchett, who played a classical conductor at Todd Field’s Tarand Ana de Armas, who became Marilyn Monroe blonde, are considered the best actors. A win tonight could kick-start his Oscar campaign.

In the race for Best Actor, Brendan Fraser’s long-awaited return as the protagonist of Darren Aronofsky’s melodrama. Format, drew more attention. However, the Canadian star has stiff competition from Timothee Chalamet, who plays a drifter and occasional cannibal in Luca Guadagnino’s film. bones and alland Hugh Jackman, who played a great role as the father of a troubled teenager in the Florian Zeller film son.

Julianne Moore leads the seven-person jury that will select the winners of Venice 2022, including the Golden Lion.