The winners of the 82nd Venice Film Festival will be announced this Saturday, so here are our final predictions for which films might take home a prize. Recently, Ildikó Enyedi’s competition entry SILENT FRIEND received a very warm reception — great news, as she remains one of our most prominent surreal humanist filmmakers, a true expert at blending the intimate with the metaphysical, the concrete with the dreamlike.
First, Joseph’s predictions:
Golden Lion: BELOW THE CLOUDS (Gianfranco Rosi)
Runner-up: NO OTHER CHOICE (Park Chan-wook)
Grand Jury Prize: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB (Kaouther Ben Hania)
Runner-up: FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Jim Jarmusch)
Special Jury Prize: SILENT FRIEND (Ildikó Enyedi)
Runner-up: FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Jim Jarmusch)
Silver Lion, Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
Runner-up: Mona Fastvold, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
Coppa Volpi, Best Actor: Tony Servillo, LA GAZIA
Runner-up: Lee Byung-hun, NO OTHER CHOICE
Coppa Volpi, Best Actress: Amanda Seyfried, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
Runner-up: Emma Stone, BUGONIA
Best Screenplay Award: NO OTHER CHOICE (Park Chan-wook)
Runner-up: LA GRAZIA (Paolo Sorrentino)
Marcello Mastroianni Award, Best Young Actor/Actress: Aidan Delbis, BUGONIA
Runner-up: Jacob Elordi, FRANKENSTEIN
My predictions:
Golden Lion: FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Jim Jarmusch)
Runner-up: SILENT FRIEND (Ildikó Enyedi)
Grand Jury Prize: SILENT FRIEND (Ildikó Enyedi)
Runner-up: NO OTHER CHOICE (Park Chan-wook)
Special Jury Prize: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB (Kaouther Ben Hania)
Runner-up: BELOW THE CLOUDS (Gianfranco Rosi)
Silver Lion, Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
Runner-up: Jim Jarmusch, FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
Coppa Volpi, Best Actor: Tony Servillo, LA GAZIA
Runner-up: George Clooney, JAY KELLY
Coppa Volpi, Best Actress: Amanda Seyfried, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
Runner-up: Valerie Bruni Tedeschi, DUSE
Best Screenplay Award: NO OTHER CHOICE (Park Chan-wook)
Runner-up: JAY KELLY (Noah Baumbach)
Marcello Mastroianni Award, Best Young Actor/Actress: Benjamin Voisin, THE STRANGER
Runner-up: Jacob Elordi, FRANKENSTEIN