La Biennale di Venezia warmly congratulates Brady Corbet, Adrien Brody and the entire production team of The Brutalist – the film that won the Silver Lion at the 81st Venice International Film Festival 2024 – for winning three Oscars tonight in Los Angeles: Best Actor in a Leading Role Adrien Brody, Best Cinematography (Lol Crawley), Best Music Original Score (Daniel Blumberg).
La Biennale also wishes to congratulate Walter Salles and the production team of I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) – which also held its world premiere screening at the 81st Venice International Film Festival and won the award for best screenplay – for its Oscar in the category of Best International Feature Film, as well as Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani, directors of In the Shadow of the Cypress, presented in the Orizzonti section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival 2023, which has won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
In the past nine editions of the Oscars, this is the eighth time that the award for Best Actress or Best Actor in a Leading Role goes to the protagonist of films that premiered at the Venice Film Festival, after Emma Stone for La La Land (2017) by Damien Chazelle, Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2018) by Martin McDonagh, Olivia Colman for The Favourite (2019) by Yorgos Lanthimos, Joaquin Phoenix for Joker (2020) by Todd Phillips, Frances McDormand for Nomadland (2021) by Chloé Zhao, Brendan Fraser for The Whale (2023) by Darren Aronofsky, Emma Stone for Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos (2024).
Last but not least, La Biennale congratulates the auteurs and production teams of the other films that premiered in Venice and were nominated in this edition of the Oscars, Maria by Pablo Larraín, September 5 by Tim Fehlbaum, the short animation film from the Orizzonti section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival 2023 Wander to Wonder by Nina Gantz, and Isabella Rossellini, nominated for the film Conclave as Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
