The Hotel Excelsior’s lobby is conspicuously quiet, as is the sea-front terrace, normally a busy hive of wheeler-dealers. Cinema comes alive when it’s an event.”, 7 Life-Affirming Venice Film Festival Winners You Need To Watch Now, 10 Releases You Need To Look Out For At Venice Film Festival 2020, It’s Chic To Repeat, Says Cate Blanchett’s Stylist Of Her Timeless Venice Wardrobe, 5 Of The Biggest Takeaways From The Socially Distanced Venice Film Festival. Juliette Binoche also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in Three Colours: Blue. Sharon Stone...", Actors & Actresses Who Were Snubbed For Scorsese Films, LEADERBOARDS: See best prediction accuracy scores among 3,702 Emmy fans at Gold Derby. Venice Film Festival 2020 was held from September 2 to 12 amid the COVID-19 pandemic in a restricted manner - the 77th edition of the oldest and most notable film festival which is internationally acclaimed. Though World War II closed the festival in 1942, it reopened in 1946 with Jean Renoir’s acclaimed 1945 drama “The Southerner” winning what was then called Best Feature Film. Over its nearly 90 years of history, the Venice Film Festival has featured a number of films that won major awards at Venice and would later go on to gain more recognition and success. The 1940, 1941, and 1942 editions were even renamed as the Italian-German Film Festival in light of the alliance between Mussolini and Adolf Hitler's Germany. The other winner of the Golden Lion that year, the American drama Gloria, directed by John Cassavetes, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gena Rowlands' performance. Nomadland, Pierfrancesco Favino, Vanessa Kirby, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Chaitanya Tamhane were among the big winners at the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival. This is the third award for The Disciple this month, after bagging the Best Screenplay award and the International Critics' Prize by FIPRESCI at the 77th Venice Film Festival. In addition to the Silver Lion, the American drama Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, won the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival. Read | Shawn Mendes Set To Perform At Toronto Film Festival Tribute Awards 2020; Details Inside, Read | Kani Kusruti Wins Big At Imagine Film Festival In Madrid For Her Performance In 'Biryani'. The Venice Film Festival was also not held in 1973, 1977, and 1978 as interest and support for the festival waned. Celebs. Most original film went to “Jekyll and Hyde” with March the audience’s favorite actor. © 2020 Collider Cryptomedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The jurors for the 2020 Venice Film Festival main competition, led by Blanchett, included director Veronika Franz (Goodnight Mommy), British filmmaker Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir), German director Christian Petzold (Phoenix), Italian novelist Nicola Lagioia, and actors Matt Dillon and Ludivine Sagnier (Swimming Pool).