Venice 2023: The Awards

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Yorgos Lanthimos Golden Lion winner
Venice Film Festival

VERDICT: Yorgos Lanthimos took home the Golden Lion with his wildly inventive feminist portrait 'Poor Things', the most popular film in the festival.

VENICE 80 – OFFICIAL AWARDS

GOLDEN LION for Best Film 
POOR THINGS
 by Yorgos Lanthimos  (U.K.)

SILVER LION – Grand Jury Prize 
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai
 by Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Japan)

SILVER LION – Award for Best Director 
MATTEO GARRONE 
for the film IO CAPITANO  (Italy, Belgium)

COPPA VOLPI for Best Actress
Cailee Spaeny

in the film PRISCILLA by Sofia Coppola (U.S., Italy)

COPPA VOLPI for Best Actor
Peter Sarsgaard
 in the film MEMORY
by Michel Franco (Mexico, U.S.)

AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY 
Guillermo Calderón and PABLO LARRAÍN
for the film EL CONDE by Pablo Larraín  (Chile)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE 
GREEN BORDER (Zielona granica)
by Agnieszka Holland (Poland, Czech Rep., France, Belgium)

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD for Best Young Actor 
SEYDOU SARR in the film IO CAPITANO by Matteo Garrone (Italy)

 

ORIZZONTI

ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST FILM
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (Magyarázat mindenre)
by Gábor Reisz (Hungary)

ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR
MIKA GUSTAFSON
for the film PARADISE IS BURNING (Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Finland)

SPECIAL ORIZZONTI JURY PRIZE 
AN ENDLESS SUNDAY (Una sterminata Domenica)
by Alain Parroni  (Italy; Germany, Ireland)

ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS 
Margarita Rosa De Francisco
in the film El Paraíso by Enrico Maria Artale  (Italy)

ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR 
Tergel Bold-Erdene
in the film Ser Ser Salhi (City of Wind) by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir (France, Mongolia, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar)

ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY 
ENRICO MARIA ARTALE for the film El Paraíso by Enrico Maria Artale  (Italy)

ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM 
A SHORT TRIP
by Erenik Beqiri (France)

VENICE SHORT FILM NOMINATION FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2023 
A SHORT TRIP
by Erenik Beqiri (France)

 

ORIZZONTI EXTRA

ARMANY BEAUTY AUDIENCE AWARD
FELICITÀ (HAPPINESS)
by Micaela Ramazzotti (Italia)

LION OF THE FUTURE – “LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM
LOVE IS A GUN (Ai Shi Yi Ba Qiang)
by LEE Hong-Chi (Hong Kong/Taiwan)

VENICE CLASSICS AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY ON CINEMA 
THANK YOU VERY MUCH by Alex Braverman (United States)

VENICE CLASSICS AWARD FOR BEST RESTORED FILM 
OHIKKOSHI (Moving)
by Shinji S?mai (Japan, 1993)

 

VENICE IMMERSIVE

VENICE IMMERSIVE GRAND PRIZE 
SONGS FOR A PASSERBY
by CELINE DAEMEN (Netherlands)

VENICE IMMERSIVE SPECIAL JURY PRIZE 
FLOW
by ADRIAAN LOKMAN (Netherlands, France)

VENICE IMMERSIVE ACHIEVEMENT PRIZE 
EMPEREUR
by MARION BURGER and ILAN COHEN (France, Germany)