Venice Film Festival Awards 2006

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63rd Venice Film Festival Awards – 2006 Golden Lion

The 2006 Venice Film Festival will be held between Aug. 30-Sept. 9, 2006.

The 2006 Venice Film Festival winners were announced on Sept. 9, 2006.

 

Still Life by Jia Zhang-Ke

The Queen (2006) directed by Stephen Frears, starring Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms"Thank you, Tony Blair, for timing your political disintegration with the release of our film." That’s The Queen’s screenwriter Peter Morgan, winner of the Best Screenplay Award at this year’s Venice Film Festival. In The Queen, which was directed by Stephen Frears, Coppa Volpi for Best Actress winner Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II, at odds with the Blair government following the death of Princess Diana. (For those into betting on future Oscar nominees, Mirren is a cinch — and she has a very good chance of actually winning the award.)

The surprise Golden Lion winner was Jia Zhang-Ke’s Sanxia Haoren / Still Life. A late entry at the festival, Still Life portrays the plight of the people of Fengjie, a village destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges dam. More than 1 million Chinese have been forced to relocate because of the dam.

Hollywoodland (2006) directed by Allen Coulter, starring Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Adrien BrodyAnother surprise winner was Ben Affleck, who was awarded the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor for his performance as actor George Reeves in the film noir Hollywoodland, about the death of TV’s Superman.

Alain ResnaisThe Best Director was 84-year-old veteran Alain Resnais for Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places, which had been one of the top contenders for the Golden Lion. Resnais’ Last Year in Marienbad had won the Golden Lion back in 1961.

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Daratt, about the lingering effects of Chad’s civil war, took the Special Jury Prize.

The Great Italian Hope, Gianni Amelio’s La stella che non c’è / The Missing Star, failed to win a single major award.

 

Golden Lion for Best Film: Sanxia Haoren / Still Life by Jia Zhang-Ke

Special Jury Prize: Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Silver Lion for Best Director: Alain Resnais for Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places

Silver Lion Revelation: Emanuele Crialese for Nuovomondo / Golden Door

Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland by Allen Coulter

Coppa Volpi for Best Actress: Helen Mirren for The Queen by Stephen Frears

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor: Isild Le Besco for L’intouchable by Benoît Jacquot

Osella for Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan for The Queen by Stephen Frears

Osella for Best Technical Contribution: Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón

Special Lion: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for innovation in the language of cinema

 

Horizons Prize: Mabei shang de fating by Liu Jie

Horizons Documentary Prize: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts by Spike Lee

 

Lion of the Future by Premio Venezia Opera Prima "Luigi De Laurentiis": Khadak by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth

 

Corto Cortissimo Lion for Best Short Film: Comment on freine dans une descente? by Alix Delaporte

Prix UIP for Best European Short Film: The Making of Parts by Daniel Elliott

Special Mention: Adults Only by Yeo Joon Han

 

FIPRESCI Award: The Queen by Stephen Frears

 

Signis (Ecumenical) Award: Nuovomondo / Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese

Special Mention: Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

 

Leoncino D’Oro / Little Golden Lion: Euphoria by Ivan Vyrypaev

Cinema for Unicef – Leoncino Agiscuola Award: Nuovomondo / Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese

"Fulchignoni" Award (Unesco): Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Critics’ Week Award: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel

EIUC (Inter-University European Center) Human Rights Film Award: Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Europa Cinema Label – Venice Days: Azuloscurocasinegro / DarkBlueAlmostBlack by Daniel Sanchez-Arévalo

FEDIC Award: Nuovomondo / Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese

Open Award: Dong by Jia Zhang-Ke

Doc/ It award (tie): Dong by Jia Zhang-Ke and Ana alati tahmol azouhour ila qabriha’ by Hala AlabdallaYakoub and Ammar Al Beik

Laterna Magica Award (Cgs): Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón

Cinecircoli Giovanili Socioculturali Award: Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón

Comitato per la Cinematografia dei Ragazzi Award: Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón

Biografilm Award: Bobby by Emilio Estevez

IOMA a Venezia Award: The Queen by Stephen Frears

Arcobaleno Latino Awards: Lettere dal Sahara by Vittorio De Seta

National Union of Italian Film Journalists: Nuovomondo / Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese

Foundation Mimmo Rotella Prize: La Stella che non c’è / The Missing Star by Gianni Amelio

Wella Cinema Donna Award: Micaela Ramazzotti for Non prendere impegni stasera by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

Isvema Award: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel

Future Film Festival Digital Award: Inland Empire by David Lynch and The Banquet by Feng Xiaogang

La Navicella Award: Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Pietro Bianchi Award: Marco Bellocchio

 

Cinemavvenire (Cinema of the Future) Awards:

Official Competition: Nuovomondo / Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese

"Cinema for Peace and Diversity" Award: I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone by Tsai Ming-Liang

 

Human Rights Film Network Award:

Special Mention: Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

 

"Francesco Pasinetti" Awards (Sngci):

Best Film: Nuovomondo / Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese

Special Mention: La Stella che non c’è / The Missing Star by Gianni Amelio

Best Actor: Sergio Castellitto in La Stella che non c’è / The Missing Star

Best Actress: Laura Morante in Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places

 

Arca CinemaGiovani Award:

Best International Film: Zwartboek / Black Book by Paul Verhoeven

Best Italian film: La Reducazione / The Reeducation by Davide Alfonsi, Alessandro Fusto, Denis Malagnino, and Daniele Guerrini

Best "New Tendencies" Film: Offscreen by Christopher Boe

 

Grand Jury: Catherine Deneuve (president), José Juan Bigas Luna, Paulo Branco, Cameron Crowe, Chulpan Khamatova, Park Chan-wook, Michele Placido

Horizons Jury: Philip Gröning (president), Carlo Carlei, Yousri Nasrallah, Giuseppe Genna, Kusakabe Keiko

Opera Prima (first film) Jury: Paula Wagner (president), Guillermo Del Toro, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Andrei Plakhov, Stefania Rocca

Corto Cortissimo (short film) Jury: Teboho Mahlatsi (president), Francesca Calvelli, Aleksej Fedorcenko

 

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