83rd Venice International Film Festival Award Winners - In Progress

Today, September 10th, La Mostra award winners post starts as there are some winners already announced.

Post will be In Progress until after the awards ceremony next Saturday.

The Award Winners

Official Selection

Competition

Golden Lion for Best Film:

Silver Lion Jury Grand Prize:
Special Jury Prize:

Silver Lion for Best Director:

Copa Volpi for Best Actress:
Copa Volpi for Best Actor:
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actress or Actor:

Best Screenplay:
Lion of the Future - Luigi de Laurentiis Award for Best Debut Film:

Orizzonti Awards
Best Film:
Special Jury Prize:
Best Director:
Best Actress:
Best Actor:
Best Screenplay:

Best Short Film:
Short Film nominee for the European Film Awards:

Venezia Spotlight
Armani Beauty Audience Award

Venice Classics
Best Documentary on Cinema
Best Restored Film:

Venice Immersive
Grand Prize:
Special Jury Prize:
Achievement Prize:

To check the Official Selection award winners at festival site go here.

Autonomous Sections

22nd Giornate degli Autori
Director's Award: A Veces Me Entra Tristeza, Otras Veces Rebelión (Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion), María Aparicio, Argentina and Spain
Label Europa Cinemas Award: Une Femme Aujourd'hui (A Woman Today), Robert Guédiguian, France and Italy
People Choice Award: Balcanica, Nicola Sorcinelli, Italy, Serbia, and Croatia (1st film)
Premio SIAE Career Award: Nanni Moretti
Premio SIAE Creative Talent Award: Cossimo Messeri for Il Massacro (The Massacre), Cosimo Messeri, Italy (docufiction)
Premio Le vie dell'immagine: Mati Diop

To check award winners at Giornate degli Autori site go here.

41. Settimana Internationalle della Critica (Venice International Film Critics Week)

Grand Prize: Prima della Guerra (Before The War), Tommaso Usberti, France and Italy
Special Mention: El Fin de los Tiempos (The End of Times), Bibiana Rojas Gómez and Juan David Cárdenas, Colombia (fiction-documentary hybrid)

Verona Film Club Award for Most Innovative Feature: 发现之旅 Fa xian zhi lü (Zoom In, Zoom Out), Dong Jie, China
Mario Serandrei Award for Technical Contribution: El Fin de los Tiempos (The End of Times), Bibiana Rojas Gómez and Juan David Cárdenas, Colombia (fiction-documentary hybrid)
Audience Award: Our Share of Sand, Shalini Adnani, India, UK and Greece
Luciano Sovena Award for Best Independent Production: Prima della Guerra (Before The War), Tommaso Usberti, France and Italy

SIC@SIC Italian Short Cinemas Awards
Best Short Film: E-I-E-I-O, Noemi Arfuso, Italy 10' (experimental)
Best Director: Paoli De Luca for Revolver, Paoli De Luca, Italy 20'
Best Technical Contribution: Se mai le cose (If Things Could Ever Talk), Giulia Cosentino, Italy and France 20'
Centro Nazionale del Corto Award: Se mai le cose (If Things Could Ever Talk), Giulia Cosentino, Italy and France 20'

To check Settimana Internazionale della Critica award winners at official site go here.

Collateral Awards

FIPRESCI Awards
Best Film in Venezia83: 가능한 사랑 Ganeunghan Sarang (Possible Love), Lee Chang-Dong, South Korea
Best Film in Orizzonti: 太陽ぬ色 The Color of the Sun, Xavier Tera, Canada, Italy and Japan

SIGNIS Award: ルックバック Look Back, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan

Airone della Laguna Award
Best Film: مراقب Moragheb (Falling House), Mohsen Gharaei, Iran, USA and Germany
Best Short Film: Тиша (Silence), Pavlo Shpegun, Ukraine 14'
Special Mentions
Il senso della terra (The Sense of Earth), Alessandro Ingaria and Simone Massi, Italy 14' (hibrid animation)
Los Poderes, Salim Jaller, Colombia and France 20'

Arca CinemaGiovani Award
Best Film in Venezia83: 가능한 사랑 Ganeunghan Sarang (Possible Love), Lee Chang-Dong, South Korea
Best Italian Film: L'estranea (The Spiral), Paolo Strippoli, Belgium, France and Italy

Female Authors Under 40 Award
Best Director: (tie)
谎言生活 Huǎngyán Shēnghuó (Big Little Things), Michelle Zhou, Hong Kong and USA
A Veces Me Entra Tristeza, Otras Veces Rebelión (Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion), María Aparicio, Argentina and Spain
Special Mentions
Directing and Screenplay: Our Share of Sand, Shalini Adnani, India, UK and Greece
Cinematography: Simone Hart for Eklipse, Manuel Wetscher, Austria and Italy

1964 Pop Art Award: La Ragazza con la Leica (The Girl with the Leica), Alina Marazzi, Italy and Germany
BookCiak Award: Il Fuoco che ti porti dentro (The Fire Within You), Edoardo de Angelis, Italy

Brian Award:  Makikiraan Po (Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors), Lav Diaz, Philippines
Special Mention: No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman, Halkawt Mustafa, Norway, Iraq, UAE, and Sweden

Carlo Lizzani Award: Balcanica, Nicola Sorcinelli, Italy, Serbia, and Croatia (1st film) 

Cinema and Arts Award
Best Film: (tie)
ルックバック Look Back, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
襲名 Shūmei (Shumei - The Living Legacy of Kabuki), Takashi Miike, Japan (documentary)
Best Multidisciplinary Artist: Anatolij Vasil'ev in DAU, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Germany, France, Ukraine, and Sweden

Cinema for UNICEF: NAZA, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, UK (documentary)
CinemaSarà Award: ルックバック Look Back, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
Croce Rossa Italiana Award: 15/18 (A Place to Heal), Cédric Kahn, France

Edipo re Award: Μια Μέρα στη Ζωή της Τζο: Κεφάλαιο Φαίδρα Mia mera sti zoi tis tzo: kefalaio faidra (A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra), Jacqueline Lentzou, Greece, Germany, and France
Edipo re Youth Jury Award: NAZA, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, UK (documentary)

Enrico Fulghignoni-CICT-UNESCO Award: Dear Ajayi, Damilola Orimogunje, Nigeria and Germany

Fanheart3 Awards
Graffeta d'Oro for Best Film: Peau d'homme (Man's Skin), Léa Domenach, France
Nave d'Argento for Best OTP: Chris & Lee, the characters in Wild Horse Nine, Martin McDonagh, Chile, USA and UK
Special Mention: ルックバック Look Back, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
XR Fan Experience: Empire At Sea, Peter Flaherty, USA 

FEDIC Awards
Premio FEDIC: Serpenti (Snakes), Roberto de Paolis Maino, Italy
Premio FEDIC for Short Film: Se mai le cose (If Things Could Ever Talk), Giulia Cosentino, Italy and France 20' 

Premio Speciale Film Impresa: Un Bon Petit Soldat (A Good Little Soldier), Stéphane Brizé, France

Fondazione Fai Persona Lavoro Ambiente Award:
Special Mention Ambiente:
Special Mention Lavoro:
Special Mention Ambiente Sociale:

Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award: The Echo Chamber, Andrea Pallaoro, Belgium and Italy
Fondazione Casa Wabi - Mantarraya Award: winner of Luigi De Laurentiis debut film award

Francesco Pasinetti Awards
Best Film: Ritorno a Buenos Aires (Back to Buenos Aires), Marco Bechis, Italy and Brazil
Best Actress: Vanesa Scalera in Il Fuoco che ti porti dentro (The Fire Within You), Edoardo de Angelis, Italy
Best Actor: Adriano Giannini in Ritorno a Buenos Aires (Back to Buenos Aires), Marco Bechis, Italy and Brazil
Passinetti Special Prize: La Ragazza con la Leica (The Girl with the Leica), Alina Marazzi, Italy and Germany

FRED Film Radio Award:

Green Drop Award: (tie)
NAZA, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, UK (documentary)
L'estranea (The Spiral), Paolo Strippoli, Belgium, France and Italy

Impact Golden Globes Documentary Award: Listy (Letters from the Silenced Country), Andrei Kutsila, Poland, Germany and Lithuania (documentary)
Interfilm Award: Un Bon Petit Soldat (A Good Little Soldier), Stéphane Brizé, France

La Pellicola d'Oro Awards
Best Chief Engineer: Roberto Prieto for The Echo Chamber, Andrea Pallaoro, Belgium and Italy 
Best Machine Operator: Luigi Adrei for Succederà questa notte (It Will Happen Tonight), Nanni Moretti, France, Spain and Italy 
Special Mention: Laura Delli Colli

Lanterna Magica Award: 15/18 (A Place to Heal), Cédric Kahn, France

Leoncino d'Oro Agiscoula Award: ネルソンさん、あなたは人を殺しましたか？ Nelson San, Anata ha hito wo koroshimashitaka? (Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?), Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan, USA, Thailand, and Vietnam
Mention Cinema for UNICEF: NAZA, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, UK (documentary)  

NETPAC Award:

Nuovoimaeie Talent Award - Premio Fabio Sartor
Best Actress: Gaia Merlonghi in La città dei vivi (The City of the Living), Edoardo Gabbriellini, Italy  
Best Actor: Piero Usberti in Prima della Guerra (Before The War), Tommaso Usberti, France and Italy  

Peugeot Award for emerging talent in directing: Gregorio Mattiocco for Bratiska, Italy
Premi Film Impresa Special Award: Un Bon Petit Soldat (A Good Little Soldier), Stéphane Brizé, France

Queer Lion Award: (tie)
Queer Edward II, Theo Rollason, UK (documentary)
London, Victor Di Marco and Márcio Picoli, Brazil

RB Casting Award: Emanuele Maria Di Estefano in La città dei vivi (The City of the Living), Edoardo Gabbriellini, Italy
Roma Film Award: Adraino Giannini for L'estranea (The Spiral), Paolo Strippoli, Belgium, France and Italy

Sorriso Diverso Awards 
Best Italian Film: Rider, Roan Johnson and Davide Pavanello, Italy
Best Foreign Film: Un Bon Petit Soldat (A Good Little Soldier), Stéphane Brizé, France
Best Director under 35: Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor for NAZA, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, UK (documentary)

Soundtrack 83
Best Sound Track: Various for DAU, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Germany, France, Ukraine, and Sweden
Special Mentions
Alberto Iglesias for Succederà questa notte (It Will Happen Tonight), Nanni Moretti, France, Spain and Italy
Yuta Bandoh for ルックバック Look Back, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
Best Original Song: Call My Name by Clément Ducol sing by Susan Sarandon in The Echo Chamber, Andrea Pallaoro, Belgium and Italy
Best Non-Original Song: Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye by Cole Porter sing by Annie Lennox in Queer Edward II, Theo Rollason, UK (documentary)
Best Insert of Classical Music: String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel in Un Peu Avant Minuit (One Minute to Midnight), Nicolars Pariser, France

Soundtrack Stars Award
Best Soundtrack in Venezia83: La Niña and Alfredo Maddaluno for Il Fuoco che ti porti dentro (The Fire Within You), Edoardo de Angelis, Italy
Special Mention: Daniel Pemberton for Ink, Danny Boyle, USA, France and UK
Soundtrack Stars Special Award 2026: Daniel Blumberg and Tredici Pietro

UNIMED Award: ルックバック Look Back, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan

To check most of the collateral awards at festival official site go here.

33rd Final Cut in Venice (post production awards)

10th La Biennale di Venezia Prize: Madi Makambu, Machérie Ekwa Bahango, Congo, France, and Belgium

14th Edition of Final Cut in Venice
Al ihtilal wa al hal (Occupationa Hazards), Bassel Ghandour, Jordan, Qatar, UK, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine
Balaa (Plague), Youssef Chebbi, Tunisia, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Slovenia
Eldorado, le goût du sud (Eldorado, The Taste of the South), Alaa Eddine Aljem, Morocco, France, Italy, and Norway
Jeudi moins le quart (A Quarter to Thursday), Sofia Djama, France, Belgium and Algeria
Madi Makambu, Machérie Ekwa Bahango, Congo, France, and Belgium
Mehal Sefari, Abraham Gezahagne, Ethiopia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, and Saudi Arabia

To check the awards each of the above films in Final Cut received go to Official Site here.

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Ellen Burstyn
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: George Clooney
Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker: Luca Guadagnino
Campari Passion for Film Award: Serena Rossi
Premio Robert Bresson: Pedro Costa
Premio Bianchi: Tinto Brass

To check autonomous and collateral award winners go official site here.