Cate Blanchett received her second Coppa Volpi as Best Actress in Career. photo EFE
The awards ceremony of the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival ended, in which Argentina, 1985by Santiago Miter, with Ricardo Darin and Peter Lanzani as protagonists, vying for the Golden Lion for best film.
There was no luck for the film, the Golden Lion went to American production All the beauty and the bloodshed, by Laura Poitras. It is a documentary and for the third consecutive year a director wins the most important prize of the Festival.
Today, exactly six years ago, Saturday 10 September 1986, Oscar Martínez won the Volpi Cup as best actor, for the distinguished citizenby Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat.
Argentina, 1985to be released in Argentine cinemas on Thursday 29 September, it follows prosecutors Julio César Strassera (Darín) and Luis Moreno Ocampo (Lanzani) in the historic trial of the military juntas of the last dictatorship.
The jury this year at the Festival is chaired by the American actress Julianne Moore, who twenty years ago won the Coppa Volpi as best actress, for far from heavenby Todd Haynes. Our compatriot Mariano Cohn, director as we remember from the distinguished citizen Y official competitionboth competing at the time for the Golden Lion in Venice, he is also a member of the Jury.
Accompanying them are the Japanese and Nobel Prize winner for literature Kazuo Ishiguro, the French director Audrey Diwan, the Madrid director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the Iranian actress Leila Hatami and the Neapolitan director Leonardo Di Costanzo.
Before the main prizes, the winners were announced in the parallel section Horizons, where Trenque Lauquén, by Laura Citarella, was shown in competition on Thursday. He is portrayed by Laura Paredes, who plays a secondary but important role in Argentina, 1985like Adriana Calvo, who gave impressive testimony during the trial.
No luck, the Best Picture Award went to Third World warby Houman Seyyedi.
Below, all the winners of the 8 official awards:
Golden Lion for Best Film: All the beauty and the bloodshedby Laura Poitras
Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize: Sant’Omerby Alice Diop
Silver Lion for Best Director: Luca Guadagnino, for Bones and all
Coppa Volpi for the best actress: Cate Blanchett, for Tar
Coppa Volpi for the best actor: Colin Farrell, for the spirits of the island
Special Jury Prize: no bearsby Jafar Panahi
Best Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, per the spirits of the island.
Marcello Mastroianni Award for the best new actor or actress: Taylor Russell, per Bones and all
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
