10/09/2016 - VENICE 2016: The Audience Award for Best Film in the International Critics' Week has been given to The Nobodies by Juan Sebastián Mesa

The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) has handed out its prize in the 73rd Venice Film Festival’s competition to A Woman's Life [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: Stéphane Brizé
film profile] by French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé. In the Orizzonti section, the winning film was Kékszakállú by Argentinian filmmaker Gastón Solnicki.

The Audience Award - Circolo del Cinema di Verona for Best Film in the 31st International Critics' Week was given to The Nobodies by Juan Sebastián Mesa. Other parallel awards include the SIGNIS Award for Roan Johnson’s Piuma [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], with a Special Mention going to On the Milky Road [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Emir Kusturica, which also received the Leoncino d’Oro Agiscuola per il Cinema Award.

Here is the complete list of the parallel awards of the festival:

Premio Arca CinemaGiovani Award
Best Italian Film
Ears [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alessandro Aronadio
film profile] - Alessandro Aronadio
Best Film in Competition
Arrival - Denis Villeneuve

Civitas Vitae Award
Piuma [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Roan Johnson 

Audience Award - Circolo del Cinema di Verona – 31st Venice International Film Critics Week
The Nobodies - Juan Sebastián Mesa 

FEDIC Award
Special Mention FEDIC
I Was a Dreamer [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alessandro Borghi
interview: Michele Vannucci
film profile] - Michele Vannucci
Special Mention Fedic - Il Giornale del Cibo
Ears - Alessandro Aronadio 

FIPRESCI Award
Best Film in Competition
A Woman's Life [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: Stéphane Brizé
film profile] - Stéphane Brizé
Best Film in Orizzonti
Kékszakállú - Gastón Solnicki 

Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award
James Franco, Ambi Pictures - In Dubious Battle
Paolo Sorrentino, Jude Law - The Young Pope
Roan Johnson, Lucky Red - Piuma 

Enrico Fulchignoni – CICT-UNESCO Award
Hotel Salvation - Shubhashish Bhutiani

Future Film Festival Digital Award
Arrival - Denis Villeneuve
Special Mention
Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Terrence Malick 

Giovani Giurati del Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award
The Distinguished Citizen [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat

Green Drop Award (ex æquo)
Spira Mirabilis [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti
Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey - Terrence Malick 

Human Rights Nights Award
Bitter Money [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Wang Bing
Special Mention
Robinù [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Michele Santoro 

Interfilm Award
White Sun [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Deepak Rauniyar  

Lanterna Magica Award (CGS)
Dark Night - Tim Sutton 

Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola Award
On the Milky Road [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Emir Kusturica
Segnalazione Cinema for UNICEF 2016
Paradise [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Andrei Konchalovsky   

Mouse d’Oro Award - Competition
Jackie [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Pablo Larraín
Mouse d’Argento – Out of Competition
Austerlitz [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Sergei Loznitsa 

NuovoImaie Talent Award
Best Young Actor
Daniele Parisi – Orecchie, Alessandro Aronadio
Best Young Actress
Camilla Diana – Tommaso, Kim Rossi Stuart 

Francesco Pasinetti – SNGCI Award Special Prize
The cast of Piuma - Roan Johnson  

Mario Serandrei - Hotel Saturnia Award – 31st Venice International Film Critics Week
The Last of Us - Ala Eddine Slim 

Sfera 1932 Award
Spira Mirabilis - Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti 

SIGNIS Award
Piuma - Roan Johnson
Special Mention
On the Milky Road - Emir Kusturica 

C. Smithers Foundation – CICT-UNESCO Award
The Bleeder - Philippe Falardeau 

Soundtrack Stars Award
Summertime [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Gabriele Muccino 

Sorriso Diverso Venezia 2016 Award - Ass Ucl
Best Italian Film (ex æquo)
Questi giorni [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Giuseppe Piccioni
I Was a Dreamer - Michele Vannucci
Best Foreign Film
The Woman Who Left - Lav Diaz

Padre Nazareno Taddei Award
Paradise - Andrei Konchalovsky

To read about the parallel awards handed out in the Venice Days, click here.

(Translated from Italian)