The 83rd Venice Film Festival has officially drawn to a close, with the festival’s top prizes handed out during its closing ceremony on Saturday, September 12.
While several of the competition’s most talked-about titles entered the final stretch as potential contenders, the jury, led by Maggie Gyllenhaal, delivered a selection that balanced established favourites with a few notable surprises.
The coveted Golden Lion for Best Film went to Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown, starring Mathilde Arcel, which also earned Arcel the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress. Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, another of the festival’s widely discussed titles, followed with the Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize, while John Malkovich took home Best Actor for his performance in Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine.
Other major honours included the Silver Lion for Best Director for Ilya Khrzhanovsky for DAU, the Special Jury Prize for Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s NAZA, and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress for Malou Khebizi in 15/18 (A Place to Heal).
With the competition now wrapped, here is the complete list of winners of the 83rd Venice Film Festival.
Main Competition
- Golden Lion: Woman Unknown, May el-Toukhy
- Grand Jury Prize: Possible Love, Lee Chang-dong
- Special Jury Prize: NAZA, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Dau
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Mathilde Arcel, Woman Unknown
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: John Malkovich, Wild Horse Nine
- Best Screenplay: Un bon petit soldat, Stéphane Brizé, Coralie Amédéo and Olivier Gorce
- Marcello Mastroianni Award for emerging performer: Malou Khebizi, A Place to Heal
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Ellen Burstyn and George Clooney
Orizzonti
- Best Film: Un détour par Diane, Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni
- Best Director: Jacqueline Lentzou, A day in the life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra
- Special Jury Prize: La maison du vent, Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu
- Best Actress: Laleh Marzban, Moragheb
- Best Actor: Riccardo Scamarcio, I figli della scimmia
- Best Screenplay: I figli della scimmia, Tommaso Landucci and Damiano Femfert
- Best Short Film: Quelques instants de bonheur, Shaden Safieddine Tazi
Venice Spotlight
- Armani Beauty Audience Award: I Matter, Alina Şerban
Lion of the Future
- Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film: La maison du vent, Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu
Venice Classics
- Best Restored Film: La lunga notte del ’43, Florestano Vancini
Venice Immersive
- Venice Immersive Achievement Prize: Empire at Sea, Peter Flaherty
- Special Jury Prize: Out of the Ashes, Rory Mitchell and Nonny Peña
- Grand Prize: The Pigeon Ring, Yuqi Zhang and Shixin Tao
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