Venice Film Festival 2012

Here is, altough a bit late, the list of awards from the 69th Venice Film Festival:

GOLDEN LION for Best Film to PIETA by Kim Ki-duk (Republic of Korea)

 

SILVER LION for Best Director to THE MASTER by Paul Thomas Anderson (USA)

 

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to Paradies: Glaube by Ulrich Seidl (Austria, Germany, France)

 

COPPA VOLPI for Best Actor to Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix

in the film THE MASTER by Paul Thomas Anderson (USA)

 

COPPA VOLPI for Best Actress Hadas Yaron

in the film LEMALE ET HA’CHALAL by Rama Bursthein (Israel)

 

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD for Best New Young Actor or Actress to Fabrizio Falco

in the films BELLA ADDORMENTATA by Marco Bellocchio (Italy) and È STATO IL FIGLIO by Daniele Ciprí (Italy)

 

AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to Olivier Assayas

for the film APRES MAI by Olivier Assayas (France)

 

AWARD FOR THE BEST TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION (CINEMATOGRAPHY) to Daniele Ciprì

for the film È STATO IL FIGLIO by Daniele Ciprì (Italy)
 

 

 

• LION OF THE FUTURE – “LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM to KÜF (MOLD) by Ali Aydin (Turkey, Germany) VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS’ WEEK

as well as a prize of 100,000 USD, donated by Filmauro di Aurelio e Luigi De Laurentiis to be divided equally between director and producer

 

 

 

• ORIZZONTI

 

ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST FILM (full-length films) to

SAN ZIMEI by Wang Bing (France, Hong Kong)

 

SPECIAL ORIZZONTI JURY PRIZE (full-length films) to

TANGO LIBRE by Frédéric Fonteyne (France, Belgium, Luxembourg)

 

ORIZZONTI YOUTUBE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM to

CHO-DE by Yoo Min-young (South Korea)

 

EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2012-EFA to

TITLOI TELOUS by Yorgos Zois (Greece)

Cannes 2012 - Winners

Just as for the Academy Awards, and altough quite late, here is an informative post on the outcome of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. And the winners are:

And the Oscar goes to...

Here is an informative post just to sum up the events of yesterday night at the Oscars. The winner for each categorie is in blue.

Oscar 2012 “Best Movies”: An Overview

The Artist (M. Hazanavicius). I am no lover of silent movies. The fact that not only I stayed awake but that I deeply enjoyed two hours of complete silence is enough to make me say that this movie is truly amazing. A film that makes you laugh (literally, a lot of people in the theater were laughing) and cry (figuratively, although the projection of Valentine (Jean Dujardin)’s last movie was quite “eyes-watering”) without saying a word makes you rethink all you thought you know about movies and the importance of dialogues. This is not one of those times when one pretends to like an artistic movie to look intellectual: the simplicity and universality of the story, the masterly executed direction, the games of dark and light, the talent of the actors…all these elements make this movie talk without words.