After about two weeks of the 81st Venice Film Festival, which included many timed standing ovations, fan cams of the actors able to attend and our favorite directors in taxi boats, the festival is coming to a close. The jury led by president Isabelle Huppert unveiled the winners of the 2024 awards. Jurors, including James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, Julia von Heinz, and Zhang Ziyi, saw over 20 films over the last week and a half at the Venice Film Festival.

Main Competition

Golden Lion The Room Next Door

Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize Vermiglio by Maura Delpero

Silver Lion Best Director The Brutalist by Brady Corbet

Special Jury Prize April by Dea Kulumbegashvili

Best Screenplay I’m Still Here by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega

Best Actress Nicole Kidman for Babygirl

Best Actor Vincent Lindon for The Quiet Son

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress Paul Kircher for And Their Children After Them

Horizons

Best Film The New Year That Never Came by Bogdan Muresanu

Best Director Sarah Friedland for Familiar Touch

Special Jury Prize One of Those Days When Hemme Dies by Murat Firatoglu

Best Actress Kathleen Chalfant for Familiar Touch

Best Actor Francesco Ghegi for Family

Best Screenplay Happy Holidays by Scandar Copti

Best Short Film Who Loves The Sun by Arshia Shakiba

Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film Familiar Touch by Sarah Friedland

Audience Award The Witness (Shahed)

Venice Classics

Best Documentary Chain Reactions

Best Restored Film Ecce Bombo, Nanni Moretti

Venice Immersive

Grand Jury Prize Ito Meikyū

Special Jury Prize Oto’s Planet

Immersive Achievement Prize Impulse Playing With Reality