The 79th Venice International Film Festival has presented the movies that will compete for this year’s Golden Lion. Following Cannes’ impressive 2022 line-up was always going to be a tough task, but the Venice Film Festival has pulled out all the stops and unveiled a programme that fuses red-carpet glitz with politically-charged fare.
The diverse line-up already positions Venice as a highlight of the fall festival circuit, and reaffirms the Lido’s long-time reputation as the unmissable awards-launchpad for productions already eyeing up next year’s Oscar season.
New films from Luca Guadagnino, Darren Aranofsky, Joanna Hogg, Olivia Wilde and Alejandro González Iñárritu will all premiere at this year’s festival, and the stars getting on a vaporetto to the Lido include Hugh Jackman, Adam Driver, Timothée Chalamet, Ana de Armas, Laura Dern, Florence Pugh and Harry Styles.
Not too shabby. Possibly disappointed that their 2018 Golden Lion winner “Roma” missed out on the Best Picture Oscar and that last year’s “Power of the Dog” didn’t nab the top awards as many were predicting (despite winning Best Director for Jane Campion both on the Lido and at the Oscars), Netflix are gunning for more prizes and this year could very well be theirs for the taking.
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