Ang Lee, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett Earn Venice Festival Honors
Winning films also screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Venice Film Festival awarded top honors to Ang Lee, Brad Pitt, and more as festivities came to a close Saturday.
Ang Lee's Chinese language thriller Lust, Caution came to the still-ongoing Toronto International Film Festival dogged by minor backlash from Venice critics, yet nabbed the top Golden Lion prize at that festival's close. The win is Lee's second in three years, having won in 2005 for Brokeback Mountain (Chinese entry Still Life won last year).
Lust, Caution
In similar fashion, other high profile wins this year premiered at Venice before being shown in Toronto. Brad Pitt, in Toronto with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, nabbed the Best Actor award in Venice for his portrayal of the tormented titular outlaw. Cate Blanchett took Best Actress honors for her role in the Bob Dylan-inspired The I'm Not There, which will screen for critics at TIFF on Tuesday.
TIFF attendees will also get the chance to watch Brian DePalma's The Redacted, about American troops and Iraqi locals who clash over a horrible crime. The film earned Venice's second-highest award, the Silver Lion.
Click here for the full list of winners.
Ang Lee's Chinese language thriller Lust, Caution came to the still-ongoing Toronto International Film Festival dogged by minor backlash from Venice critics, yet nabbed the top Golden Lion prize at that festival's close. The win is Lee's second in three years, having won in 2005 for Brokeback Mountain (Chinese entry Still Life won last year).
Lust, Caution
In similar fashion, other high profile wins this year premiered at Venice before being shown in Toronto. Brad Pitt, in Toronto with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, nabbed the Best Actor award in Venice for his portrayal of the tormented titular outlaw. Cate Blanchett took Best Actress honors for her role in the Bob Dylan-inspired The I'm Not There, which will screen for critics at TIFF on Tuesday.
TIFF attendees will also get the chance to watch Brian DePalma's The Redacted, about American troops and Iraqi locals who clash over a horrible crime. The film earned Venice's second-highest award, the Silver Lion.
Click here for the full list of winners.
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 on Sep 09 2007 06:28 PM Good! I've been wondering if Brad Pitt was going to be good in that role, and now it seems as though we have some decent confirmation that the movie will be a good one, indeed. Yay! :) As for Cate Blanchett, well, I'm not surprised at all. Why would I be...? ;) (Reply to this) |
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on Sep 09 2007 07:10 PM well done Cate blanchett, waiting to see you rule at the awards at the oscars (Elizabeth and I'm not there) (Reply to this) |
 on Sep 09 2007 07:27 PM I'm surprised this didn't get a mention since RT fans are obsessed with "The Dark Night"... but Heath Ledger went up to receive Cate Blanchett's award dressed in bizarre colorful outfit (shorts, stripey socks, and back-pack?) - infact he kinda looked like a school kid on crack. Apparently, he also went out in the Joker outfit to a restaurant recently too, did the voice and freaked out some customers... so... either he has truly started losing the plot since leaving his partner, with his work blurring in with his real life.. or he's a truly genius actor? (Reply to this) |
 on Sep 09 2007 07:38 PM In reply to this comment (#1111497) maybe the answer is, he's truly starting to lose it, with his work blurring into his real life...and it is because he's a truly genius actor? or maybe not im not one to say cause i dont really know (Reply to this) |
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on Sep 10 2007 03:44 AM yeah... I'm not gonna speculate as to where his mind's at too much, but if he did in fact go out still in character, then full props to him! I love to see something like that happen. (Reply to this) |
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on Sep 10 2007 05:02 AM I don't understand how Ang Lee's film recieved a "backlash" by critics but still won the top prize. Were the critics being hypocrits or were the other nominees just that bad? I've heard about all the controversy surrounding the film. I've heard its pornographic, earning an NC-17 rating. I also heard it was a immediatly banned from distribution in Mainland China, the country in which it was filmed. This all sounds like a plus for me, since Mainland China always bans its best movies- Farewell My Concubine, Emperor and The Assassin, To Live, etc... (Reply to this) |
 on Sep 10 2007 11:44 AM That's cool that Pitt won, I really am looking forward to The Assassination of Jesse James. (Reply to this) |
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