A week before the official press conference for the 82nd Venice Film Festival (August 27-September 6), outlets including Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Screen, and Deadline have carried reports on a ...

Laura Poitras' doc 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' surprises with the Golden Lion at Venice, with prizes also going to Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and 'Bones and All' star Taylor Russell.

Restored movies by Pedro Almodóvar, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Manoel de Oliveira, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Tsai ...

UPDATE: The Venice Film Festival has now handed out its awards, and for the second time ever crowned a documentary as the Golden Lion, while also spreading the love around. Oscar winner Laura ...

"The Room Next Door" won the Golden Lion best picture prize at Venice Film Festival, while Nicole Kidman earned best actress for "Babygirl." ...

Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” won the Golden Lion at the 81st Venice Film Festival. The Spanish auteur’s first feature in English took the top prize at the awards ceremony on ...

Pedro Almodovar‘s, “The Room Next Door,” just moved to the top tier of Oscar contenders with a big win at the Venice Film Festival. It picked up the top prize, the Golden Lion, on September ...

Australian director Peter Weir, best known for films like "Dead Poets Society" and "The Truman Show" is set to receive recognition for his career at the Venice Film Festival.

Kim Novak, the star of movie classics such as Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo," is scheduled to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Venice film festival.

In the past five years, the films that have won Venice’s top award, The Golden Lion, have proved to a reliable bell weather for the Academy Awards, which take place nearly half a year later.

In a rare triumph for nonfiction cinema at a major film festival, American docmaker Laura Poitras has taken the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival for “All the Beauty and the ...

The top prize at Venice is a Golden Lion (in honor of the iconic lion that is the symbol of the city) and it's one of the top prizes in cinema along with the Palme d'Or.