{"id":893395,"date":"2026-09-12T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893395\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:38:14","slug":"venice-film-festival-2026-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893395\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Film Festival 2026 Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated: Venice<\/a> has completed its run of award winners on Saturday, with Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy\u2019s post-World War II Danish resistance thriller \u201cWoman Unknown\u201d taking the Golden Lion. See the full list of winners below. Maggie Gyllenhaal led this year\u2019s jury, which also gave the Best Actress prize to \u201cWoman Unknown\u201d star Mathilde Arcel, who plays a woman tenuously grasping at her social status as people in her orbit start to discover that she had sex with a Nazi. She desperately tries to control the spread of information, but it quickly spirals out of control. The movie is looking for distribution.<\/p>\n

Other prize winners include \u201cPossible Love\u201d (Netflix), \u201cNAZA\u201d (acquisitions title), \u201cDAU\u201d (acquisitions title), and Best Actor John Malkovich in \u201cWild Horse Nine\u201d (Searchlight). He\u2019s locked for an Oscar nomination for his performance as a disillusioned CIA agent in Martin McDonagh\u2019s Easter Island-set dark comedy.<\/p>\n

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Earlier: The Venice Film Festival<\/a> wraps up on the beachy strip of the Lido today, with the competition jurors, led by president Maggie Gyllenhaal, naming all the award winners this year.<\/p>\n

Tipped for big prizes based on critical and audience reactions are the Gaza documentary \u201cNAZA<\/a>,\u201d from Oscar-winning \u201cNo Other Land\u201d filmmakers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, and which received a historic 25-minute standing ovation; Lee Chang-dong\u2019s widely celebrated Korean entry \u201cPossible Love<\/a>\u201c; Ilya Khrzhanovsky\u2019s decades-in-the-making Soviet Union epic \u201cDAU,\u201d in which the filmmaker created a real-life \u201cSynecdoche, New York\u201d-like immersive set for this cast and crew; Martin McDonagh\u2019s \u201cWild Horse Nine\u201d starring John Malkovich, who is locked for a Best Actor Oscar nomination; and May el-Toukhy\u2019s post-World War II Danish resistance thriller \u201cWoman Unknown<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until \u201cNAZA\u201d was added late to the lineup, el-Toukhy was the only female director in the competition. While gender-parity issues could cynically factor into the jury vote, the movie stands on its own terms and was well-reviewed at the festival\u2019s 83rd edition. Among the best actress candidates, Jeon Do-yeon is beloved for her turn in Lee\u2019s \u201cPossible Love\u201d as a factory worker who becomes the subject of a rich documentary filmmaker\u2019s project, as are Rooney and Kate Mara for Werner Herzog\u2019s divisive \u201cBucking Fastard.\u201d As far as Best Actor goes, Robert Pattinson could take home a prize today for his anguished, menacing turn as \u201cTo Catch a Predator\u201d host Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenheim\u2019s \u201cPrimetime.\u201d The A24 movie has so far not played any other fall festivals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also announced today are the winners from the Orizzonti (Horizons) section, dedicated to emerging and daring filmmakers and parallel to Cannes\u2019 Un Certain Regard. French actress\/filmmaker Val\u00e9rie Donzelli serves as president of this year\u2019s Orizzonti jury.<\/p>\n

Follow along below for IndieWire\u2019s updating list of winners, and stream the ceremony here also. As a refresh, last year\u2019s Golden Lion went to Jim Jarmusch\u2019s \u201cFather Mother Sister Brother<\/a>,\u201d a movie that didn\u2019t travel far despite jury president Alexander Payne\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Golden Lion: \u201cWoman Unknown,\u201d May el-Toukhy<\/p>\n

Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize: \u201cPossible Love,\u201d Lee Chang-dong<\/p>\n

Silver Lion for Best Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky, \u201cDAU\u201d<\/p>\n

Special Jury Prize: \u201cNAZA,\u201d Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor<\/p>\n

Best Screenplay: \u201cUn Bon Petit Soldat,\u201d Coralie Amedeo, St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9, Olivier Gorce<\/p>\n

Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Mathilde Arcel, \u201cWoman Unknown\u201d<\/p>\n

Volpi Cup for Best Actor: John Malkovich, \u201cWild Horse Nine\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcello Mastroianni Best Young Actor Award: Malou Khebizi, \u201cA Place to Heal\u201d<\/p>\n

Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Debut Film<\/a>: \u201cHouse of the Wind,\u201d Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu<\/p>\n

Audience Award \u2014 Armani Beauty: \u201cI Matter,\u201d Alina \u0218erban<\/p>\n

Orizzonti Best Film: \u201cDiane in the Loop,\u201d Ann Sirot and Rapha\u00ebl Balboni<\/p>\n

Orizzonti Best Director: Jacqueline Lentzou, \u201cA Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra\u201d<\/p>\n

Orizzonti Special Jury Prize: \u201cHouse of the Wind,\u201d Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu<\/p>\n

Orizzonti Best Actress: Laleh Marzban, \u201cFalling House\u201d<\/p>\n

Orizzonti Best Actor: Riccardo Scamarcio, \u201cThe Children of the Monkey\u201d<\/p>\n

Orizzonti Best Screenplay: \u201cThe Children of the Monkey,\u201d Tommaso Landucci, Damiano Femfert<\/p>\n

Orizzonti Best Short Film: \u201cA Few Moments of Happiness,\u201d Shaden Safieddine Tazi<\/p>\n

Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film: \u201cLa Lunga Notte del \u201943\u201d<\/p>\n

Venice Immersive Achievement Prize: \u201cEmpire at Sea,\u201d Peter Flaherty<\/p>\n

Venice Immersive Special Jury Prize: \u201cOut of the Ashes,\u201d Rory Mitchell and Nonny de la Pe\u00f1a<\/p>\n

Venice Immersive Grand Prize: \u201cThe Pigeon Ring,\u201d Shixin Tao, Yuqi Zhang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated: Venice has completed its run of award winners on Saturday, with Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy\u2019s post-World War…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3042,49,48,75,28908,1554,18296],"class_list":["post-893395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-awards","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-festivals","tag-film","tag-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}