Venice Film Festival 2025 Winners
Update: In a turn of somewhat surprising events, Jim Jarmusch Father Mother Sister Brother Was crowned with the best Golden Lion prize at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. The title of Mubi had not been considered a precursor, even if the opinions were positive.
This is Jarmusch’s first film to play in competition on the Lido and tells three stories exploring the relationships between adult children, their parent (or parents) a little distant and each other. Each of the chapters takes place in the present and each in another country.
In his review, Damon Wise De Deadline wrote: “Nothing seems to land, but he persists in a way; Take advantage of it or not, Father Mother Sister Brother Go make your way in your brain like a false memory syndrome, a high content reminder, if you never make laugh that you cannot choose your family. “”
The cast presents Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat and Françoise Lebrun.
Accepting the lion, Jarmusch recalled a speech delivered by Akira Kurosawa when he received an Academy Lifetime award, “he said something as if he feared that he still does not know how to do it, so I have a sort of the same feeling, I learn each time.”
Meanwhile, the highly appreciated Gaza drama Hind Rajab’s voiceWhat many thought they were the best winner of the evening, won the finalist trophy, the prize for the Grand Jury Silver Lion.
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The speech of emotional acceptance of director Kaouther Ben Hania paid tribute to the subject of the film: “Hind’s voice is the voice of Gaza itself … His voice continues to resonate until the responsibility is real, until justice is returned.”
In another surprise, Park Chan-Wook is rented No other choice was completely excluded from prices. One of the best revised films in the festival, it will represent Korea for the international feature film Oscar.
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The president of the jury, Alexander Payne, later addressed the absence of mentions for the film of Park.
Benny Safdie, during her first solo turn, was appointed best director of his Dwayne Johnson / Emily Blunt-Starrer The breaking machine.
Safdie spoke of “radical empathy” by accepting the price and thanked Johnson: “My friend, my brother, my partner, shoulder and shoulder … You really played without a net, and we jumped from the cliff together.”
Among the other prices, the Italian veteran actor and Paolo Sorrentino Muse, Toni Servillo received the Volpi Cup for best actor for his turn in La Grazia Which opened the festival.
Scroll down for the full list of winners.
PREVIOUS: The closing night of the 82nd Venice Film Festival is upon us, and with it the award ceremony which is about to start inside the Sala Grande. The main competition jury, led by the Oscar -winning filmmaker Alexander Payne, will focus on the next winner of the Golden Lion while distributing prices to act, make, script and more. Scroll down to follow while we update live winners.
This was occupied for almost two weeks on the Lido with the competition films very well received overall. This year also gave us what is considered a new record for an ovation in the Gaza-Set drama of Kaouther Ben Hania Hind Rajab’s voice. One of the most buzzing titles entering the festival, he was met with an emotional response, embraced in force by criticism (currently 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and could be the one to beat the Golden Lion this evening. He is also in the process of restocking Tunisia in the race for international Oscars, but still looking for the North American distribution.
Other competition titles receiving high praise included the festival’s opening match, La Grazia (MUBI) by Paolo Sorrentino and with longtime employee Toni Servillo; The return of Kathryn Bigelow with an overall photo A dynamite house (Netflix); Dwayne Johnson / Emily Blunt-Starrer The breaking machine (A24) by Benny Safdie; Mona Fastvold’s Ann Lee’s will, with Amanda Seyfried; Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein (Netflix) led by Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi; Yorgos lanthimos’ Bugonia (Focus) with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons; Park Chan-Wook’s No other choiceWith a revealing tour of Lee Byung-Hun (also 100% on RT, and after the first here, Korea quickly announced that the Thriller de la Comédie Noire would be his submission for the Oscar International); And the last film to play, Silent friend from the Hungary Ildiko Enediko.
With Launchpad from the first season of Awards from Venice, the eyes will be very trained on how the jury is swinging this evening.
The deadline is on site and updating live winners below.
Venezia 82 Compartiton
Golden lion
Father Mother Sister BrotherDir: Jim Jarmusch
Prix du Grand Jury Silver Lion
Hind Rajab’s voiceDir: Kaouther ben Hania
Silver Lion Best Director
Benny Safdie, The breaking machine
Special jury prize
Sotte the Nuvole; Dir: Gianfranco Rosi
Best scenario
Valérie Donzelli, Gilles Marchand; A pedestal
Best actor
Toni Servillo, La Grazia
Best actress
Xin Zhilei, The sun rises on a
Marcello Mastroianni Prix for best new young actor or actress
Luna Wedler, Silent friend
Lion of the Future – Luigi by Laurenti Award for a first film
Short summer, dir: nastia korkia
Horizons
Best movie
EN EL CAMINODir: David Pablos
Best director
Anuparna Roy, Forgotten trees
Special jury prize
Lost landDir: Akio Fujimoto
Best actor
Giacomo Covi, A school year
Best actress
Benedetta Porcaroli, Arabella kidnapping
Best scenario
Ana Cristina Barragan, Hiedra
Best short film
Sans KellyDir: Lovisa siren
Venice classics
Best documentary on cinema
Mata HariDirs: Joe Beshenkovsky, James A. Smith
Best film restored
Bashu, the little strangerDir: Bahram Beyzaie
Venice Immersive
Price
The clouds are two thousand metersDir: Singing Chen
Special jury prize
Less than 5g of saffronDir: negar mottevalmeidanshah
Success price
A long farewellDirs: Kate Voet, Victor Maes
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