Venice Film Festival 2019 is an international film festival that is held every year in Venice, Italy. It is the festival that kickstarts the Oscar season!
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about this international film festival!
- The 76th annual Venice International Film Festival is currently being held from 28 August to 7 September 2019
- Film director Lucrecia Martel was appointed as the President of the Jury
- The Truth, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, was selected to open the festival
- The jury of the main Competition is: Lucrecia Martel, Argentine director and screenwriter (Jury President), Piers Handling, Canadian film historian and critic, executive director of the Toronto International Film Festival, Mary Harron, Canadian director, Stacy Martin, French actress, Rodrigo Prieto, Mexican cinematographer, Shinya Tsukamoto, Japanese filmmaker and actor, Paolo Virzì, Italian director and screenwriter
- The members of the horizons jury are:Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italian director and screenwriter (Jury President), Mark Adams, artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Rachid Bouchareb, French filmmaker, Álvaro Brechner, Uruguayan filmmaker, Eva Sangiorgi, artistic director of the Vienna International Film Festival
- Some of the 2020 oscar hopefuls premiered at the festival
- These are Marriage Story, Ad Astra, Joker, The Laundromat, The King
- The films at the Venice Film Festival garner reviews from professional critics
- Rotten Tomatoes keeps a scorecard that you can see below
- Marriage Story currently holds 100%
- The Truth currently holds 100%
- Joker currently holds 89%
- The Perfect Canditate currently holds 88%
- Ad Astra currently holds 83%
- Ema currently holds 83%
- The King currently holds 71%
- Seberg currently holds 67%
- The Laundromat currently holds 58%
- Wasp Network currently holds 57%
- An Officer and a Spy currently holds 55%
- Most of the films that premiered on Venice Film Festival 2019 are fresh on rotten tomatoes
- Many stars walked the red carpet
- Some of them are Scarlett Johansson, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Adam Driver
- Roman Rolanski returned with a film to the festival after the accussations of sexual abuse
- The awards will be held on the last day of the festival
