{"id":614180,"date":"2026-09-12T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/614180\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T21:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:24:14","slug":"woman-unknown-wins-golden-lion-in-venice-full-winners-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/614180\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Woman Unknown’ Wins Golden Lion in Venice: Full Winners List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmid a busy fall festival season, all eyes were back on the Lido Saturday night as Woman Unknown<\/a> won the Venice Film Festival<\/a>\u2018s coveted Golden Lion for best film.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe honors were handed out by the international<\/a> jury, headed up by U.S. filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal, as stars dressed to the nines one last time for this year\u2019s final, glitzy Lido red carpet. Among the other big winners were DAU<\/a> director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, who took home the Silver Lion for best director; Lee Chang-dong\u2019s Possible Love<\/a>, which won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize; and NAZA<\/a>, which received the Special Jury Prize.<\/p>\n

\n\tMay el-Toukhy\u2019s stylish depiction of post-World War II Denmark came out the most triumphant of all. The film focuses on a maid (Mathilde Arcel) whose past during the Nazi occupation threatens to unravel her future. El-Toukhy, just one of two female filmmakers in competition this year, told THR in a sit-down pre-festival interview<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve worked 16 hours a day for more than a year. I\u2019ve spent all my savings. I\u2019ve used every part of me to make this film and all the resources, all the muscle power I have.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Danish filmmaker continued onstage: \u201cMaking films is very collaborative, which requires sacrifices, and so thank you all for helping me tell the story. For me personally, Woman Unknown<\/a> talks about the woman\u2019s body as a battlefield. At the same time, the film tells the story of invisible women who are not and who do not have a voice \u2026 Thank you to the jury for this wonderful honor,\u201d she added. \u201cThank you especially to you, Maggie, because you use your voice [to talk about] the lack of equal opportunities for the directors in the [competition].<\/p>\n

\n\tGyllenhaal told Venice<\/a> at the jury\u2019s early presser about the lack of women in competition: \u201cThere\u2019s a systemic problem [\u2026] It\u2019s much harder for women to get their films financed. Also, could it be possible that the things that women, having had a different experience of being alive in the world, want to make movies about are not always deemed high art?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tWoman Unknown has won the Golden Lion in Venice<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVenice Film Festival<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere during Saturday\u2019s awards<\/a>, acclaimed Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong won the Silver Lion, Grand Jury Prize for social drama Possible Love. Following a struggling working-class family and the well-to-do documentarian who picks them as a subject for her new film, his film received some of the best reviews out of Venice, with most critics, like THR\u2018s David Rooney, singling out the film\u2019s<\/a> \u201csuperlative ensemble\u201d including veteran Korean actors Jeon Do-yeon and Sul Kyung-gu alongside rising stars Zo In-sung and Cho Yeo-jeong.<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix and producer Anonymous Content will be confident of its award-season chances for the feature, which has been selected by South Korea as its submission for the Oscars\u2019 best international feature category. \u201cWithout the patience and faith of so many people, this film would not have been possible,\u201d Lee said while collecting the award. (Check out an exclusive first look<\/a> at the film, released by THR ahead of Possible Love\u2018s Venice debut.) Possible Love also won the international film critics\u2019 Fipresci award for best film in Venice.<\/p>\n

\n\tIlya Khrzhanovsky received some overdue flowers for DAU. The Russian filmmaker built a sealed world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed them for three years. Two decades, 14 films and innumerable scandals later, his original epic finally arrived in Venice \u2014 and he took THR inside it all earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tNAZA<\/a>, a documentary from Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, and a late addition to the Venice lineup, won the Special Jury Prize after a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation at its Thursday night premiere. The Venice sensation features testimony from 24 Israeli military officers outlining the systems and protocols they allege Israel uses to target and kill civilians in Gaza. Its title, NAZA, comes from an acronym the Israeli military uses as a shorthand for civilian casualties.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s honestly not very easy to stand here,\u201d began Abraham as he and Szor accepted the trophy to raucous applause. \u201cI\u2019m thinking of all the people \u2014 the Israeli politicians, the journalists back home \u2014 who are now attacking this film, denying it, without even seeing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd so much is being done to not look at reality. The reality is that since this festival started, just over these 10 days, Israel killed six Palestinian children in Gaza at least, a three-year-old girl at a school that was bombed, a seven-year-old with her father in a car, two sisters at home sleeping. The Israeli intelligence officers we spoke with talked to us about how this mass killing is systemic, not by accident but by design, actions and murder that are based on total dehumanization of the Palestinians,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want to be very clear: This truth has been documented and is known from the very first day, thanks to Palestinian journalists, [and] more than 200 [journalists] have been killed in Gaza by the Israelis; their voices were silenced and denied,\u201d he said. \u201cWe believe that the denial of a crime is what helps it persist, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s important for us that the Israelis see this film \u2026 [and] especially here in Italy because your government and the German government are blocking pressure on Israel that can end this, that Americans watch it because that country is funding much of the killing,\u201d Abraham added, before thanking the doc\u2019s producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tRiding the wave of immense Oscar buzz, John Malkovich claimed the prestigious Volpi Cup for best actor for his performance in Martin McDonagh\u2019s Wild Horse Nine<\/a>. The pitch-black buddy comedy, starring Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA operatives in Chile in the 1960s, was arguably the biggest crowd-pleaser in Venice this year. The movie is going out worldwide via Searchlight Pictures and boasts a great outing from Malkovich, who gives a sharp and surprisingly touching performance as a veteran CIA agent facing a self-reckoning.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJohn Malkovich wins best actor in Venice for Wild Horse Nine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDiego Araya Corval\u00e1n\/Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tMalkovich wasn\u2019t in attendance to accept the prize in person. He told the crowd via a pre-recorded video: \u201cI am really glad to have been chosen for this award which has been given to many actors. [\u2026] Thanks to Martin McDonagh for having written an incredible screenplay and for his exceptional direction and for having given me, in fact, the opportunity to play this fantastic role. Thanks to all my colleagues, especially Sam Rockwell,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, unfortunately, I can\u2019t be there with you. I would have loved to be there, but I am currently filming another film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDanish star Arcel picked up the Volpi Cup for best actress for her role in el-Toukhy\u2019s Woman Unknown. \u201cThis is my first lead role and it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve participated in a film festival, and so I\u2019m really extremely honored, and I\u2019m really lucky to be here,\u201d said an emotional Arcel. \u201cI am truly fortunate to be in Venice with you, people who are really the best filmmakers, actors and actresses in the world, whom I\u2019ve watched all my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, A Good Little Soldier <\/a>from St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9, Coralie Am\u00e9d\u00e9o and Olivier Gorce took home the award for best screenplay.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe big winner from the Horizons (Orizzonti) section was Ann Sirot and Rapha\u00ebl Balboni\u2019s Diane in the Loop, a Belgian feature about a woman who sets out to avenge her mother when she finds out she was raped three years before Diane\u2019s birth. Riccardo Scamarcio won Horizons\u2019 best actor award for Children of the Monkey; Laleh Marzban became emotional upon receiving the best actress prize for Falling House, and Jacqueline Lentzou nabbed best director for A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra, a film inspired by the real-life killing of a teenager by police in Athens in 2008.<\/p>\n

\n\tSee below the full list of winners from the 83rd Venice International Film Festival:<\/p>\n

\t\tGolden Lion for Best Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWoman Unknown, May el-Toukhy<\/p>\n

\t\tSilver Lion, Grand Jury Prize \t<\/p>\n

\n\tPossible Love, Lee Chang-dong<\/p>\n

\t\tSilver Lion for Best Director\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIlya Khrzhanovsky, DAU<\/p>\n

\t\tSpecial Jury Prize\t<\/p>\n

\n\tNAZA, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor<\/p>\n

\t\tAward for Best Screenplay\t<\/p>\n

\n\tA Good Little Soldier, St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9, Coralie Am\u00e9d\u00e9o and Olivier Gorce<\/p>\n

\t\tVolpi Cup for Best Actor\t<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn Malkovich, Wild Horse Nine<\/p>\n

\t\tVolpi Cup for Best Actress\t<\/p>\n

\n\tMathilde Arcel, Woman Unknown<\/p>\n

\t\tMarcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress\t<\/p>\n

\n\tMalou Khebizi, A Place to Heal<\/p>\n

\t\tLuigi De Laurentis Award for Debut Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHouse of the Wind, Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu<\/p>\n

\t\tArmani Beauty Audience Award\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI Matter, Alina Serban<\/p>\n

\t\tHorizons, Best Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tDiane in the Loop, Ann Sirot and Rapha\u00ebl Balboni<\/p>\n

\t\tHorizons, Best Director\t<\/p>\n

\n\tJacqueline Lentzou, A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra<\/p>\n

\t\tHorizons, Special Jury Prize\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHouse of the Wind, Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu<\/p>\n

\t\tHorizons, Best Actor\t<\/p>\n

\n\tRiccardo Scamarcio, Children of the Monkey<\/p>\n

\t\tHorizons, Best Actress\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLaleh Marzban, Falling House<\/p>\n

\t\tHorizons, Best Screenplay\t<\/p>\n

\n\tChildren of the Monkey, Tommaso Landucci<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Short Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tA Few Moments of Happiness, Shaden Safieddine Tazi<\/p>\n

\t\tVenice Classics, Best Restored Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLong Night of 1943, Florestano Vancini<\/p>\n

\t\tVenice Immersive, Grand Prize\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Pigeon Ring, Shixin Tao and Yuqi Zhang<\/p>\n

\t\tVenice Immersive, Special Jury Prize\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOut of the Ashes, Rory Mitchell and Nonny de la Pe\u00f1a<\/p>\n

\t\tVenice Immersive, Achievement Prize\t<\/p>\n

\n\tEmpire at Sea, Peter Flaherty<\/p>\n

\t\tGolden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (previously announced)\t<\/p>\n

\n\tGeorge Clooney, Ellen Burstyn<\/p>\n

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