Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma has won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion. All right, that settles it — this Netflix release clearly has the muscle to win two if not three major Academy Awards (picture, director, screenplay)…it’s that kind of accomplishment. Grand Jury Prize was won by Yorgos Lanthimos‘ The Favourite. The Silver Lion for Best Director went to Jacques Audiard for The Sisters Brothers. The Volpi Cup for Best Actress went to The Favourite‘s Olivia Colman (even though her role is clearly not a lead). The festival’s Best Screenplay went to Joel and Ethan Coen for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Jennifer Kent‘s The Nightingale won the Special Jury Prize, and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Young Performer went to The Nightingale‘s Baykali Ganambarr.
