Joker Wins Best Picture ‘Golden Lion’ at Venice Film Festival
A comic book motion picture has won the top respect at a renowned film festival. Pause for a minute to give that sink access. Joker — the independent DC film featuring Joaquin Phoenix ahead of the pack and coordinated by Todd Phillips (The Hangover set of three) — was granted the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival throughout the end of the week, which came as an amazement to everybody considering Warner Bros. was said to go out on a limb by debuting it at the world’s most established film festival. Besides, film festival prizes are for the most part given out to films that have genuine Oscar-winning certifications — that has been the situation for three of the last five Best Picture victors — which at that point contends that Joker is presently taking a gander at some Oscar energy.
“They took a comic book folklore that has been done from various perspectives and upset it and renewed it until further notice,” Venice Film Festival jury part Mary Harron said after the honors function on Saturday in the Italian city. The Canadian chief Harron was one of seven jury individuals close by Toronto International Film Festival official executive Piers Handling, French on-screen character Stacy Martin, Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, Japanese filmmaker and entertainer Shinya Tsukamoto, Italian executive and screenwriter Paolo Virzì, and Argentine author chief and jury president Lucrecia Martel. Harron said she additionally adored Phoenix’s work, however Venice standards keep top film and acting distinctions from heading out to a similar motion picture.
Tolerating the honor, Phillips agreed and stated: “There is no motion picture without Joaquin Phoenix. Joaquin is the fiercest and most splendid and most liberal lion I know. Much obliged to you for confiding in me with your crazy ability.” In turn, Phoenix noticed the quantity of chiefs and the “wild and varied gathering” on the Venice jury as he expressed gratitude toward them for granting his film with the Golden Lion. Phillips likewise expressed gratitude toward Warner Bros. for “venturing out of their usual range of familiarity and taking such a strong swing on me and this motion picture.”
Joker’s success at the 2019 cycle of the Venice International Film Festival wasn’t the main amazement. In an intensely questionable move, the festival’s second greatest/next in line grant — the Grand Jury Prize — was given to chief Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy, a French dramatization about the political outrage the Dreyfus Affair. Polanski was indicted for statutory assault in the US in 1978 and has since been an outlaw, living for the most part in France. After the ascent of the #MeToo development, Polanski was deprived of his Oscar participation in 2018, over 40 years after he conceded.
