{"id":6561,"date":"2009-09-13T01:05:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2009-09-13T01:05:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T00:05:08","slug":"lebanon-win-the-golden-lion-at-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/09\/13\/lebanon-win-the-golden-lion-at-venice-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon wins the Golden Lion at Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"Lebanon wins Golden Lion at Venice 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Lebanon-wins-Golden-Lion-at-Venice-2009.jpg\" alt=\"Lebanon wins Golden Lion at Venice 2009\" width=\"480\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli war film <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1290082\/\">Lebanon<\/a><\/strong> has won the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_Lion\">Golden Lion<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/cinema\/festival\/premi\/awards.html\">66th Venice Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm3594569\/\">Samuel Maoz<\/a>, it was shot almost entirely inside an Israeli tank and is set against the backdrop of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>In the other big awards Best Director went to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shirin_Neshat\">Shirin Neshat<\/a><\/strong> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1498887\/\">Women Without Men<\/a>, whilst <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000147\/\">Colin Firth<\/a><\/strong> won Best Actor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1315981\/\">A Single Man<\/a>, the adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Single_Man_(novel)\">Christopher Isherwood&#8217;s novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the other winners in full:<\/p>\n<p><strong>VENEZIA 66<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Golden Lion for Best Film<\/span>: <strong>Lebanon<\/strong> (Dir. Samuel Maoz \u00a0\/ Israel, France, Germany)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Silver Lion for Best Director<\/span>: <strong>Shirin Neshat<\/strong> for Zanan Bedone Mardan (Women Without Men) (Germany, Austria, France)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Special Jury Prize<\/span>: <strong>Soul Kitchen<\/strong> (Dir. Fatih Akin \/ Germany)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Coppa Volpi for Best Actor<\/span>: <strong>Colin Firth<\/strong> in A Single Man (Dir. Tom Ford \/ USA)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Coppa Volpi for Best Actress<\/span>: <strong>Ksenia Rappoport<\/strong> in La Doppia Ora (Dir. Giuseppe Capotondi \/ Italy)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress<\/span>: <strong>Jasmine Trinca<\/strong> in Il Grande Sogno (Dir. Michele Placiso \/ Italy)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Osella for Best Technical Contribution<\/span>: <strong>Sylvie Olive<\/strong> for Mr. Nobody (Dir. Jaco \u00a0Van Dormael \/ France)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Osella for Best Screenplay<\/span>: <strong>Todd Solondz<\/strong> for Life During Wartime (Dir. Todd Solondz \/ USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ORIZZONTI<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Orizzonti Prize<\/span>:\u00a0<strong>Engkwentro<\/strong> (Dir. Pepe Diokno \/ Philippines)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Orizzonti Prize for Best Documentary<\/span>:\u00a0<strong>1428<\/strong> (Dir. Du Haibin \/ China)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Special Mention<\/span>:\u00a0<strong>Aadmi Ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniya<\/strong> (The Man\u2019s Woman and Other Stories) by Amit Dutta (India)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONTROCAMPO ITALIANO<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Controcampo Italiano Prize<\/span>: <strong>Cosmonauta<\/strong> (Dir. Susanna Nicchiarelli \/ Italy)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Special Mention<\/span>: <strong>Negli Occhi<\/strong> (Dir. Daniele Anzellotti and Francesco Del Grosso \/ Italy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CORTO CORTISSIMO<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Corto Cortissimo Lion for Best Short Film<\/span>: <strong>Eersgeborene<\/strong> (Dir. Etienne Kallos \/ South Africa, USA)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Venice Nomination to the European Film Awards 2009<\/span>: <strong>Sinner<\/strong> (Dir. Meni Philip \/ Israel)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Special Mention<\/span>: Felicit\u00e0 (Dir. Salom\u00e9 Aleksi \/ Georgia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lion of the Future Venice Award for a Debut Film<\/span>: <strong>Engkwentro<\/strong> (Dir. Pepe Diokno \/ Philippines)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Persol 3-D Award for the Best 3-D Stereoscopic Film of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Persol 3-D Award<\/span>: <strong>The Hole<\/strong> by Joe Dante (USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli war film Lebanon has won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[1121,1120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}