Venice International Film Festival

Ang Lee won the top prize

Venice Film Festival kicked off in 1932 and will this year be cele-

brating its 75th anniversary with a series of special events

George Clooney, Charlize Theron, Brad

Pitt, Susan Sarandon, Jude Law, Michael

Caine, and Kiera Knightly are all

scheduled to make the 75th anniver-

sary of the Venice Film Festival

Oliver Stone at past Festival

Ang Lee's ``Lust, Caution,'' won the Golden Lion top prize at the

Venice Film Festival, closing the 64th competition.

``I'm Not There,'' a U.S. movie directed by Todd Haynes and inspired by Bob Dylan, and ``La Graine et le Mulet,'' a French film by Abdellatif Kechiche, shared the Special Jury Prize.

Brian De Palma won best director for ``Redacted,'' and is about the conflict in Iraq.

Award for best actor went to Brad Pitt for his performance in ``The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,'' directed by Andrew Dominik.

Cate Blanchett won the best actress prize for her role in ``I'm Not There.''

Paul Laverty won the award for best script for ``It's a Free World'' by Ken Loach

Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci was presented with a special Golden Lion for his career.

In this year's festival, 23 films vied for the Golden Lion, which last year went to ``Still Life'' by the Chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke. Veteran French filmmaker Alain Resnais won the Silver Lion for best director in 2006 for ``Private Fears in Private Places.''

In Competition

"The Darjeeling Limited," Wes Anderson (U.S.)
"Sleuth," Kenneth Branagh (U.K.-U.S.)
"Le Chaos," Youssef Chahine (Egypt)
"Redacted," Brian De Palma (U.S.)
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," Andrew Dominik (U.S.)
"Nessuna qualita agli eroi," Paolo Franchi (Italy)
"Michael Clayton," Tony Gilroy (U.S.)
"Nightwatching," Peter Greenaway (Canada-France-Germany-Poland-Netherlands-U.K.)
"En la cuidad de Sylvia," Pilae Lopez De Ayala, Xavier Lafitte (Spain)
"In the Valley of Elah," Paul Haggis (U.S.)
"I'm Not There," Todd Haynes (U.S)
"The Sun Also Rises," Jiang Wen (China-Hong Kong)
"Help Me Eros," Lee Kang Sheng (Taiwan)
"La Graine et le mullet," Abdellatif Kechiche (France)
"Lust, Caution," Ang Lee (Taiwan)
"It's a Free World," Ken Loach (U.K.-Italy-Germany-Spain)
"L'ora di punta," Vincenzo Marra (Italy)
"Sukiyaki Western Django," Takashi Miike (Japan)
"12," Nikita Mikhalkov (Russia)
"Il dolce e l'amaro," Andrea Porporati (Italy)
"Les Amours d'Astree et de Celadon," Eric Rohmer (France-Italy-Spain)

Out Of Competition

"Cassandra's Dream," Woody Allen (U.K.-U.S)
"Cleopatra," Julio Bressane (Brazil)
"La Fille coupee en deux," Claude Chabrol (France)
"Beyond the Years," Im Kwopn Taek (South Korea)
"Glory to the Filmmaker," Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
"Cristovao Colombo -- O enigma," (Portugal-France)

Venetian Nights

"For a Fistful of Dollars," Sergio Leone (Italy-Spain-Germany)
"Blood Brothers," Alexi Tan (Taiwan-China-Hong Kong)
"REC," Paco Blaza and Jaume Balaguero (Spain)
"Far North," Asif Kapadia (U.K.-France)
"The Hunting Party," Richard Shepard (U.S.-Croatia-Bosnia)
"The Nanny Diaries," Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini (U.S.)
"Nocturna," Adria Garcia, Victor Maldonado (Spain, France)

Horizons

"Sad Vacation," Shinji Aoyama (Japan)
"Mal nascida," Joao Canijo (Portugal)
"Searchers 2.0," Alex Cox (U.K.)
"Medee Miracle," Tonino De Bernardi (Italy)
"Cochochi," Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cardenas (Mexico-U.K.-Canada)
"With the Girl of Black Soil," Jeon Soo-il (South Korea-France)
"L'Histoire de Richard O," Damien Odoul (France)
"Autumn Ball," Veiko Ounpuu (Estonia)
"The Silence Before Bach," Pere Portabella (Spain)
"Exodus," Penny Woolcock (U.K.)
"The Obscure," Lu Yue (China)

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