The main prize of the Venice Film Festival for the second time in a row will go to Mexico

09 September 2018, 09:01 | gossip
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In Venice, the 75th film festival ended and the current winners were determined. The jury, with director Guillermo del Toro in charge, gave the grand prize to director Alfonso Cuaron for the film "Roma" about life in Mexico City. The second time in a row, the winner of the festival is the director from Mexico. The silver lion went to France - Jacques Odiard received it for the tape "Sisters brothers".

The Grand Prix was received by the director from Greece, Yorgos Lantimos for the film "Favorite". His main character - actress Olivia Coleman became the best actress.

The best actor was Willem Dafoe for his role in the film "Van Gogh. On the threshold of eternity ".

For the best scenario, Ethan and Joel Cohen were noted for the film "Ballade of Buster Scruggs". A special prize was awarded to young filmmaker Jennifer Kent for the film "Nightingale".

In the jury, except del Toro, gathered Christoph Waltz, Nicole Garcia, Naomi Watts.

Recall, the Russian director Viktor Kosakovsky with tears in his eyes called for support of Sentsov at the Venice Film Festival.




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