LIFE WITH THE LIONS : Venice 2011 odds
Saturday 10th September at 11am (Italy)
Final predictions
Golden Lion and Best Actor: Shame
Jury Prize: Faust
Best Actress: A Simple Life
Screeenplay: A Dangerous Method
Director: Alps
Technical Prize: Wuthering Heights
Young actor(s): Himizu
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NB: Correct guesses are in bold. Alps won Screenplay, not director. Faust won Golden Lion, not Jury Prize.
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To win the Golden Lion…
3-1 : Steve McQueen’s Shame (99m)
7-1 : David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method (99m)
7-1 : Ann Hui’s A Simple Life (117m)
8-1 : Aleksandr Sokurov’s Faust (134m)
10-1 : Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps (93m)
11-1 : Thomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (127m)
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16-1 : Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights (128m)
16-1 : Sion Sono’s Himizu (129m)
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22-1 : Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma (88m)
25-1 : Eran Kolirin’s The Exchange (94m)
25-1 : Cai Shangjun’s People Mountain People Sea (90m)
25-1 : Paronnaud & Satrapi’s Chicken With Plums (90m)
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33-1 : George Clooney’s The Ides of March (98m)
33-1 : Roman Polanski’s Carnage (79m)
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40-1 : Philippe Garrel’s That Summer (95m)
40-1 : Abel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day on Earth (82m)
50-1 : William Friedkin’s Killer Joe (103m)
50-1 : Gian Alfonso Pacinotti (Gipi)’s The Last Earthling (100m)
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66-1 : Johnnie To’s Life Without Principle (107m)
66-1 : Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse (84m)
125-1 : Wei Te-Sheng’s Warriors of the Rainbow (135m)
150-1 : Ami Canaan Mann’s Texas Killing Fields (109m)
200-1 : Cristina Comencini’s When the Night (116m)
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Festival runs 31st August to 10th September 2011.
Jury: Todd HAYNES. David BYRNE. Darren ARONOFSKY. André TÉCHINÉ. Eija-Liisa AHTILA. Mario MARTONE. Alba ROHRWACHER.
full details at the Venice Film Festival website
odds archive
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2000
Golden Lion : The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
Grand Special Jury Prize : Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel)
Special Director’s Award : The Wrestlers (Buddhadev Dasgupta)
2001
Golden Lion : Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
Grand Special Jury Prize : Dog Days (Ulrich Seidl)
Special Director’s Award : Secret Ballot (Babak Payami)
{also competing : Wild Innocence (Philippe Garrel)}
2002
Golden Lion : The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
Grand Special Jury Prize : House of Fools (Andrei Konchalovsky)
Special Director’s Award : Oasis (LEE Chang-dong)
2003
Golden Lion : The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Grand Special Jury Prize : The Kite (Randa Chahal Sabag)
Special Director’s Award : Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano)
2004
Golden Lion : Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
Grand Special Jury Prize : The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
Special Director’s Award : 3-Iron (KIM Ki-duk)
{also competing : Palindromes (Todd Solondz)}
2005
Golden Lion : Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
Grand Special Jury Prize : Mary (Abel Ferrara)
Best Director : Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel – film also won Silver Lion for Outstanding Technical Contribution)
{also competing : Don’t Tell (Cristina Comencini);Goodnight, and Good Luck. (George Clooney – won Best Screenplay)}
2006
Golden Lion : Still Life (JIA Zhang-Ke)
Grand Special Jury Prize : Dry Season (Mahamet Saleh-Haroun)
Best Director : Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
{also competing : Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese – won ‘Revelation’ Silver Lion); Exiled (Johnnie To)}
2007
Golden Lion : Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
Special Jury Prize :I’m Not There (Todd Haynes) & Couscous (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Best Director : Redacted (Brian De Palma)
{also competing: Mad Detective (Johnnie To & WAI Ka-Fai)}
2008
Golden Lion : The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
Special Jury Prize : Teza (Haile Gerima)
Best Director : Paper Soldier (Aleksei German)
2009
Golden Lion : Lebanon (Samuel Maoz)
Special Jury Prize : Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)
Best Director : Women Without Men (Shirin Neshat)
{also competing : Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz – won Best Screenplay); The White Space (Cristina Comencini)}
2010
Golden Lion : Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
Grand Special Jury Prize : Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Best Director : The Last Circus (Alex de la Iglesia)