Charlotte Rampling, Shirin Neshat, David Morrissey: London 2009

Veteran actress and London Film Festival jury member Charlotte Rampling, the star of Night Porter, The Verdict, and Swimming Pool, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Venice Film Festival 2009 best director winner Shirin Neshat arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

David Morrissey arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Venice 2009: George Clooney, Toni Servillo, Best Director Shirin Neshat

Best director winner Shirin Neshat for Women Without Men at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

George Clooney, pushing The Men Who Stare at Goats and Up in the Air, and TV presenter-actress Elisabetta Canalis

Toni Servillo at a photocall for Maurizio Zaccaro’s Il Piccolo, screened in the Controcampo sidebar
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Venice Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Venice Film Festival Awards
2009 Venice Film Festival: Aug. 31-Sept. 12, 2009
 
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Golden Lion for best film: Lebanon by Samuel MAOZ (Israel, France, Germany)

Silver Lion for best director: Shirin NESHAT for Zanan Bedone Mardan (Women Without Men) (Germany, Austria, France)

Moritz Bleibtreu in Soul Kitchen. Photo: Gordon Timpen
Special Jury Prize: Soul Kitchen by Fatih AKIN (Germany)

Colin Firth. Photo: Francois Durand / Getty Images
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Colin FIRTH in A Single Man by Tom FORD (USA)

Kseniya Rappoport. Photo: Francois Durand / Getty Images
Coppa Volpi for Best Actress: Ksenia RAPPOPORT in La doppia ora by Giuseppe CAPOTONDI (Italy)
“Marcello Mastroianni” Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress: Jasmine TRINCA in Il grande [...]