And the winners are...

The Official Awards of the 60th Mostra were announced this evening. At first glance, it looks like the jury has done a fine job of spreading their nods around evenly and fairly. Andrej Zvjagintsev's The Return may have nabbed the Golden Lion, but Marco Bellocchio's Buongiorno, notte, the film many were pulling for (and there were a lot of Italians who simply hoped any of the four Italian entries would come away with something) was recognized with an "Award for an Outstanding Individual Contribution" given to Bellocchio for the screenplay.

Takeshi Kitano scores the Special Director's Award, Sean Penn wins the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor (and, to hear Sean Axmaker tell it, it sounds like it was well-deserved) and the Germans are particularly proud of Katja Riemann this evening.

Posted by dwhudson at September 6, 2003 1:46 PM