Julianne Moore is the jury president of the Venice Film Festival 2022, which will be held in the Lagoon from Wednesday 31 August to Saturday 10 September. The Biennale Cinema, directed by Alberto Barbera, announces it. In 2021 the post was held by the South Korean Bong Joon-hodirector of Parasite.
Julianne Moore, eclectic actress
The American actress is an old acquaintance of the festival of Venice. In 2003 won the Coppa Volpi as best actress for Away from heaven. After Juliette Binoche, it is the second actress in the history of cinema to have obtained the most coveted European awards for acting, awarded by the main film festivals. This is theSilver Bear of the Berlin Film Festivalof the Prix d’interprétation at the Cannes Film Festival and, in fact, the Coppa Volpi.
For Julianne Moore the triplet obtained in the Old Continent is only the extra piece of an intense career, which began in the mid-1980s on television and continued, unabated, at the cinema since 1990. Three decades and over 70 films in which she played a wide range of female characters. Stories, from time to time, different, which have highlighted its great versatility.
Among the most important films, Nine months, The Lost World – Jurassic Park, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, Hannibal, Away from heaven, The Hours, Laws of attraction – Marriage on appeal, The boys are fine, Crazy, Stupid, Love and the saga Hunger Games. And with Still Alicehowever, that in 2015 she won the Oscar as a leading actress.
In 2015 the Oscar with Still Alice
In the film directed by Richard Glatzer and Was Westmoreland, it is Alice Howlanda Columbia University professor married with three children, who at fifty falls ill with Alzheimer’s. In a short time, his certainties collapse and she will have to learn to ask for help, but above all to deal with the disease. Julianne Moore gives an intense interpretationin which he gives proof, once again, of his own caliber.
To this day, he has received 5 Oscar nominations with Boogie Nights, End of a story, Away from heaven, The Hours and, in fact Still Alice. He has won two Golden Globes and two Screen Actors Guild Awards with Game change And Still Alicea Primetime Emmy Award with Game change it’s a BAFTA still with Still Alice.
Julianne Moore. (Getty Images)
The Venice jury 79
The Argentine director, producer and screenwriter Mariano Cohnthe Italian director and screenwriter Leonardo Di Costanzothe French director Audrey Diwanthe Iranian actress Leila Hatamithe English screenwriter and writer of Japanese descent Kazuo Ishiguro.
As usual, the president of the jury, in addition to coordinating the work of the jury, will deliver the Golden Lion for Best Film and other official awards.
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