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Alexander Payne<\/a> headed up the competition jury with a panel including filmmakers Cristian Mungiu<\/a>, Mohammad Rasoulof<\/a>, St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9<\/a>, and Maura Delpero<\/a>, and actors Fernanda Torres<\/a> and Zhao Tao<\/a>. The competition selection included new films from Park Chan-wook<\/a>, Kathryn Bigelow<\/a>, Mona Fastvold<\/a>, Benny Safdie<\/a>, Guillermo del Toro<\/a>, Noah Baumbach<\/a>, Jim Jarmusch<\/a>, Yorgos Lanthimos<\/a>, and more. Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania<\/a>\u2019s Gaza drama \u201cThe Voice of Hind Rajab<\/a>\u201d is already tipped as a favorite to win.<\/p>\n Seen back in Venice for the pre-ceremony red carpet were Toni Servillo<\/a> (star of Paolo Sorrentino<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLa Grazia<\/a>\u201d), Jarmusch (director of \u201cFather Mother Sister Brother<\/a>\u201d), Kaouther Ben Hania, and Safdie (director of \u201cThe Smashing Machine<\/a>\u201d), meaning were all destined to win something.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2025 Venice Film Festival concludes this weekend, with the juries handing out awards Saturday evening (Cet) in the competition, Orizzonti, and more sections. Who will win the Golden Lion? We find out today. Alexander Payne headed up the competition jury with a panel including filmmakers Cristian Mungiu, Mohammad Rasoulof, St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9, and Maura Delpero, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2002500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2002499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Venice-Film-Festival-Winners-Benny-Safdie-Wins-Best-Director-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}