&amp;quotVera Drake&quot; win Venice Golden Lion
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British director Mike Leigh&#39;s &amp;quotVera Drake&quot;, a movie portraying a back-street abortionist in 1950s London, won the top prize on Saturday for the best film at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.
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The Chinese movie "Still Life," a surprise entry set against the backdrop of China's gigantic Three Gorges Dam project, on Saturday won this year's Golden Lion &#151; the top award at the Venice Film Festival. Helen Mirren and Ben Affleck took the top acting awards.
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Young Belgian director Joachim Lafosse wowed critics at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday with
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, winner of Golden Lion at the 61st Venice International Film Festival, and Imelda Staunton, winner of the best actress award for her role in the movie, attend the opening ceremony of the 48th London Film Festival in London
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Taiwanese director Ang Lee's sexually explicit "Lust, Caution" was the surprise winner of the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just two years after he won with "Brokeback Mountain".
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Roma, 11 settembre 2004 - Si Ã¨ conclusa con la consegna del Leone d&#39;oro al regista inglese Mike Leigh, per &quot;Il segreto di Vera Drake&quot;, la 61.ma edizione della Mostra internazionale d&#39;arte cinematografica.
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(ANSA)-VENEZIA, 6 SET- Molti applausi alla proiezione stampa, battimani alla conferenza pubblica per &#39;Vera Drake&#39;, il nuovo film di Mike Leigh. La pellicola e&#39; in concorso, e gia&#39; in odore di leone, alla 61/ma Mostra del Cinema.
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The guessing game is almost over at the  Venice film festival, where few clear frontrunners for the  Golden Lion award for best picture have emerged ahead of the  prize ceremony on Saturday evening. By the end of the annual  11-day marathon of movies, press conferences, interviews and  parties, critics and journalists normally agree on a handful of  films they think could win the top honor, although their  predictions are not always correct.
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ROME  - The 64th Venice Film Festival will open with Joe Wright's "Atonement," starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Vanessa Redgrave, organizers said Friday.
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ROME Sept. 12, 2004 - Italian media grumbled Sunday over the failure of a hometown film to win big prizes at the Venice Film Festival, where the British movie &quot;Vera Drake&quot; by director Mike Leigh grabbed the best-picture award.
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&quot;Vera Drake&quot;, the haunting new drama from acclaimed British director Mike Leigh, has won the Golden Lion for best picture at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.
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"Vera Drake," Mike Leigh's tough tale of  a working-class mother who is caught performing illegal  abortions in 1950s England, scooped up the prizes at the Venice  Film Festival on Saturday, including the coveted Golden Lion.
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The Queen, about the days after the death of Princess Diana, is tipped to win at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
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Director Tim Burton is honoured with a career award at the Venice Film Festival.
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"The Queen," a superbly acted  reconstruction of the crisis within the British monarchy caused  by Princess Diana's death in 1997, is the early favorite to  land the big prizes at the Venice Film Festival this year.
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LOS ANGELES  -- The Venice Film Festival honored British filmmaker Mike Leigh&#39;s &quot;Vera Drake,&quot; a period film about an abortion rights activist in the 1950s.
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Arts & entertainment: Four English directors in contention for film festival's top prize, the Golden Lion.