The drama Nomadland won the Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, the jury announced Saturday. The Best Actress award went to Vanessa Kirby from the UK for her performance in Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman. Best Actor was awarded to Italian Pierfrancesco Favino for his portrayal of Padrenostro in Italy in the 1970s.

American actress Frances McDormand stars Chloé Zhao in the United States, a Chinese-born director. The film is based on the 2017 writing by American journalist Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. In it, the author wrote that, as a result of the economic crisis of 2008-2009, many older Americans became disillusioned with the modern age and embarked on the badlands in the hope of a more peaceful life.

Nomadland is about a widow in her sixties who lost her livelihood and decides to turn her truck into a mobile home to travel around America. During her migration, she supports herself from odd jobs. An international jury led by Australian actress Cate Blanchett awarded two Silver Lions: one won for Michel Franco’s Mexican director’s thriller New Order and the other for Kurosawa’s Japanese director Kijosi’s historical drama Wife of a Spy. Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky was also able to return home with a prize in his pocket for dealing with the abuses of the Soviet system. Dear comrades! for his movie.

The Hungarian-Canadian co-production Kornél Mundruczó’s (White God, Jupiter’s Moon) drama Pieces of a Woman, starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf and Ellen Burstyn, was selected for this year’s festival competition program. She won the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Vanessa Kirby, who portrays a woman grieving the loss of her newborn child. The film also received the award for best film from a jury of 30 young students the day before. The script for the film was written by Kata Wéber based on her own work. Martin Scorsese is the executive producer of Kornél Mundruczó’s first foreign language film in English. Pieces of Woman was produced by BRON Studios and Little Lamb, in collaboration with Creative Wealth Media and Proton Cinema. The producer of the film is Viktória Petrányi (Proton Cinema), the montage is recorded by Dávid Jancsó. (We discuss the movie in more detail here.)

The best actor was awarded to Italian Pierfrancesco Favino for his portrayal of Padrenostro in Italy in the 1970s. In the world of cinema paralyzed by the coronavirus pandemic, the Venice International Film Festival was the first major event to be held in I live after a long time. However, due to travel restrictions, few Hollywood celebrities made it to Venice. The event was held under strict precautions, with participants wearing a mask and taking care to maintain an adequate physical distance during the screenings. The oldest film festival in the world is considered one of the lobbies for the Oscars.



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