Del Toro has dedicated this achievement to young Mexican and Latin American filmmakers who are working to push the fantasy genre.
Along with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cauron and Alejandro González Inarritu, Guillermo del Toro are known as the “Three Amigos of Cinema.”
Del Toro is the first Mexican to win the Golden Lion. Followed by the ceremony, the director said, “I’ve been doing this for 25 years. You go up, you go down. You fly, you land, you crash. A career is an accident in slow motion. It’s not a trajectory you plan.”
“This is an airbag being deployed. What the festival is saying to me is, ‘we understand your voice in the context of film, and we’re inviting you to be a part of the conversation,’” he added.
In The Shape of Water, Sally Hawkins plays a mute cleaning woman who falls in love with a sea monster being held captive by the US government. The film also stars Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones and Richard Jenkins.
Venice’s runner-up, the Grand Jury Prize, went to Israeli director Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot, which follows the tale of bereaved parents who are informed that their IDF soldier son, serving at a checkpoint in the middle of nowhere, has been killed.
French director Xavier Legrand has won the Silver Lion as the best director for his debut film Custody.
English actress Charlotte Rampling won the best actress award for her lead role in Hannah, in which she played an abandoned woman, while Palestine actor Kamel El Basha won best actor for the courtroom drama The Insult.
The 74th edition of Venice International Film Festival, the world’s oldest film festival wrapped up on Saturday after 11 days that brought stars including Clooney, Matt Damon and Jennifer Lawrence.Guillermo del Toro has won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival for his latest work The Shape of Water. The Mexico-born US filmmaker has called his Cold War romantic fairy tale as a portrait of hope, “ an antidote to now.”
After accepting the award, the Pan’s Labyrinth director said, “If you remain pure and stay with your faith, whatever you have faith in, in my case it’s monsters, and eventually things go right.”
Del Toro has dedicated this achievement to young Mexican and Latin American filmmakers who are working to push the fantasy genre.
Along with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cauron and Alejandro González Inarritu, Guillermo del Toro are known as the “Three Amigos of Cinema.”
Del Toro is the first Mexican to win the Golden Lion. Followed by the ceremony, the director said, “I’ve been doing this for 25 years. You go up, you go down. You fly, you land, you crash. A career is an accident in slow motion. It’s not a trajectory you plan.”
“This is an airbag being deployed. What the festival is saying to me is, ‘we understand your voice in the context of film, and we’re inviting you to be a part of the conversation,’” he added.
In The Shape of Water, Sally Hawkins plays a mute cleaning woman who falls in love with a sea monster being held captive by the US government. The film also stars Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones and Richard Jenkins.
Venice’s runner-up, the Grand Jury Prize, went to Israeli director Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot, which follows the tale of bereaved parents who are informed that their IDF soldier son, serving at a checkpoint in the middle of nowhere, has been killed.
French director Xavier Legrand has won the Silver Lion as the best director for his debut film Custody.
English actress Charlotte Rampling won the best actress award for her lead role in Hannah, in which she played an abandoned woman, while Palestine actor Kamel El Basha won best actor for the courtroom drama The Insult.
The 74th edition of Venice International Film Festival, the world’s oldest film festival wrapped up on Saturday after 11 days that brought stars including Clooney, Matt Damon and Jennifer Lawrence.
Del Toro has dedicated this achievement to young Mexican and Latin American filmmakers who are working to push the fantasy genre.
Along with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cauron and Alejandro González Inarritu, Guillermo del Toro are known as the “Three Amigos of Cinema.”
Del Toro is the first Mexican to win the Golden Lion. Followed by the ceremony, the director said, “I’ve been doing this for 25 years. You go up, you go down. You fly, you land, you crash. A career is an accident in slow motion. It’s not a trajectory you plan.”
“This is an airbag being deployed. What the festival is saying to me is, ‘we understand your voice in the context of film, and we’re inviting you to be a part of the conversation,’” he added.
In The Shape of Water, Sally Hawkins plays a mute cleaning woman who falls in love with a sea monster being held captive by the US government. The film also stars Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones and Richard Jenkins.
Venice’s runner-up, the Grand Jury Prize, went to Israeli director Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot, which follows the tale of bereaved parents who are informed that their IDF soldier son, serving at a checkpoint in the middle of nowhere, has been killed.
French director Xavier Legrand has won the Silver Lion as the best director for his debut film Custody.
English actress Charlotte Rampling won the best actress award for her lead role in Hannah, in which she played an abandoned woman, while Palestine actor Kamel El Basha won best actor for the courtroom drama The Insult.
The 74th edition of Venice International Film Festival, the world’s oldest film festival wrapped up on Saturday after 11 days that brought stars including Clooney, Matt Damon and Jennifer Lawrence.