Alexander Payne has been appointed president of the international jury for 82th Venice Film FestivalLeads the group that determines the winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film, the two silver lions (one for film, one director), the Volpi Cup for best actors and actress and several other awards. The festival takes place August 27 – September 6.
“It is a huge honor and joy to serve in the jury in Venice,” Payne said in a statement on Monday. “Although I share a filmmaker’s ambivalence to compare films against each other, I wore Venice’s film festival’s almost 100-year history of high celebrating film as an art form. I couldn’t be more excited.”
Festival director Alberto Barbera added, “Alexander Payne belongs to the small circle of filmmaker-Cineephiles whose passion for film is driven by knowledge of films from the past and curiosity about contemporary film, without boundaries or barriers of some kind. These characteristics to his experience as a script for the work, as an ideal-mate-mate for the work. film. To Alexander for accepting my invitation, which seals an acquaintance to the days of his exam film at UCLA. ”
Payne is a twice Oscar-winning screenwriter (for “Sideways” and “The Descendants”) and the three times nominated for best director (“The Descendants”, “Nebraska” and “Sideways”). His latest film, “The Holdovers,” was nominated for best picture (one of four total nods that his films have earned in that category) and won Da’vine Joy Randolph an Oscar Award for best actress in 2024. Right now he is preparing a new movie that will be shot in the countryside.
The jury that Payne leads will consist of “no more than nine international celebrities in the areas of film and culture from different countries”, according to the festival. They will announce prices on the last night of the festival, September 6.
Last year, French actress Isabelle Huppert Chairman of the jury who awarded the Golden Lion to Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door.”
