Here are the winners.
- Golden Lion: ‘Happening’
The festival’s award for best film went to French director Audrey Diwan’s “Happening”. The film follows a 23-year-old university student who desperately tries to get an abortion in 1960s France.
- Grand Jury Prize: ‘The Hand of God’
The runner-up prize went to Paolo Sorrentino’s autobiographical film set in the Naples of his youth, when football legend Diego Maradona delivered big hopes to the gritty southern city.
- Best Actress: Penelope Cruz
Penelope Cruz won for her work in Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers”, an uncharacteristically political film that sees the Spanish actress as a single mother who faces a mystery surrounding her baby’s identity.
- Best Actor: John Arcilla
Philippine actor John Arcilla won for his star turn in “On the Job: The Missing 8”, playing a radio host forced to rethink his support for the government after a series of assassinations.
- Best director: Jane Campion
Jane Campion won the top directing prize for “The Power of the Dog”, her first film in more than a decade, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst. Set in Montana in the 1920s the drama follows two brothers who feud after one comes home with a new wife.
- Screenplay: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s screenplay for her directorial debut, “The Lost Daughter” was based on a novel by Elena Ferrante. The film starred Olivia Colman as a woman obsessed with another mother and daughter.