Venice Competition to Include Roman Polanski, Steven Soderbergh, James Gray's 'Ad Astra,' Todd Phillips' 'Joker'

The Venice Film Festival, the world’s oldest festival for movies, is unveiling the lineup for its 76th edition on Thursday morning.

That also means that awards season officially kicks off as a slew of Oscar hopefuls start their campaigns in Italy once again. Festival director Alberto Barbera, who has had a golden touch in recent years when it comes to launching Academy Award winners, started unveiling the program in Rome late in the morning.

Jury head Lucrecia Martel will lead a jury of international film names to bestow top prizes: the Golden Lion for best film, the Grand Special Jury Prize, the Silver Lion for best director, the Special Jury Prize, the Volpi Cup for best actor and actress, the best screenplay honor, and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young actor or actress. starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ludivine Sagnier and Ethan Hawke will open the festival.

Directors who have been ostracized in a post-#MeToo Hollywood find welcome arms in Venice. Roman Polanski’s new filmPolanski has recently filed a court case to restore his membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Along with Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, the Academy revoked Polanski’s membership following a rewrite of their standards of conduct and new accusations of sexual assault against the director.

After facing backlash for an almost all-male lineup in recent years, the good news is that Venice has doubled the number of female directors in competition. The bad news is that wasn’t too hard to do, going from one director to two out of 21 competition films.and newcomer Shannon Murphy will premiereNetflix will have a solid lineup once again in Venice this year after scoring big last when Alfonso Cuaron’swon the Best Screenplay award.

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