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Nomadland wins top prize at Venice film festival – Sydney Morning Herald
Nomadland, a US movie about a community of van dwellers traversing the vast American West, won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice film festival on Saturday.
The jury led by Australian actress Cate Blanchett gave two runner-up Silver Lion awards, one to Mexican director Michel Franco’s thriller New Order and the other to Japanese historic drama Wife of a Spy, by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Veteran Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky was also awarded a special jury prize for Dear Comrades!, a film about the 1962 massacre of striking workers in Novocherkassk which had been tipped as a front-runner for the top prize.
British actress Vanessa Kirby, who was in V…
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