12 Sep 2020 at 10:45. rights reserved. Enter now! Best Screenplay Throughout the 11 days of industry schmoozing and movie watching on the glitzy beachfront Lido, elbow bumps replaced handshakes, theatregoers were masked and the red carpet eerily devoid of screaming fans. Chloe Zhao, who won the shiny Lion is the first women to take the top prize in exactly a decade since Sofia Coppola won in 2010 with her film 'Somewhere', and the fifth woman in history to win the Venice Film Festival’s top prize. In a year featuring a record eight female directors in competition — nearly half the lineup — there was widespread speculation that Blanchett’s jury would reward one of them. Best Actress Venice Film Festival 2020 LONDON: London police said they arrested 10 people and four officers were injured as they broke up a thousands-strong demonstration against British coronavirus restrictions Saturday. Yahya Mahayni, 'The Man Who Sold His Skin' Photograph:( Dezeenwire: the Golden Lion award winners at the Venice Architecture Beinnale were announced at a ceremony on Saturday. ). Here's the full list of winners for the 2020 Venice International Film Festival below. One day after premiering and receiving the most rapturous reviews of any film in competition, U.S.-based Chinese director Chloé Zhao has won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for her film “Nomadland,” a documentary-influenced road movie starring Frances McDormand as an itinerant widow traveling across America. Twitter Golden Lion 'Nomadland' Best Film Nobody is suitable for the post of prime minister and no political party is receiving clear popular support in the current political situation, according to a survey conducted by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll. 'Khansa Batma', Zanka Contact High expectations were heaped on Zhao, who broke through with her Cannes-premiered 2017 film “The Rider,” and “Nomadland,” which combines deep emotional force with innovative form, delivered, wowing both in Venice and at its simultaneous Toronto premiere. In the festival’s secondary Horizons competition, jury president Claire Denis handed the top prize to Iranian director Ahmed Bahrami’s “The Wasteland,” a study of worker tensions at a rural brick factory, while Filipino festival favorite Lav Diaz, a Golden Lion winner four years ago for “The Woman Who Left,” was named best director for his solemn, ambiguous moral allegory “Genus Pan.”, Grand Jury Prize: “New Order,” Michel Franco, Silver Lion for best director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, “Wife of a Spy”, Best actress: Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman”, Best actor: Pierfrancesco Favino, “Padrenostro”, Best screenplay: “The Disciple,” Chaitanya Tamhane, Special Jury Prize: “Dear Comrades,” Andrei Konchalovsky, Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young actor: Rouhollah Zamani, “Sun Children”, Best film: “The Wasteland,” Ahmad Bahrami, Special Jury Prize: “Listen,” Ana Rocha de Sousa, Best actress: Khansa Batma, “Zanka Contact”, Best actor: Yahya Mahayni, “The Man Who Sold His Skin”, Best screenplay: “I Predatori,” Pietro Castellitto, Best short film: “Entre tú y milagros,” Mariana Safron, Luigi De Laurentiis Award for best debut film: “Listen,” Ana Rocha de Sousa, Best VR: “The Hangman at Home: An Immersive Single User Experience,” Michelle and Uri Kranot, Best VR experience:  “Finding Pandora X,” Kiira Benzing, Best VR story: “Killing a Superstar,” Fan Fan.