Venice Film Festival Awards and Stars

Russell Crowe touched down at the Venice Film Festival on Friday with his concert documentary What Love Builds, about his life as a musician and band Indoor Garden Party, which premieres Out of Competition on Friday. The Oscar-winning Gladiator actor, who has hit the headlines across his career for

Argentinian director María Aparicio’s third feature Sadness Sometimes, Other Times Revolt has scooped the top prize at the 2026 edition of Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori, the GDA Director’s Award. In other key prizes, French director Robert Guediguian’s A Woman Today (Une Femme Aujour