Vera Drake Takes Two Awards in Venice
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Controversial Mike Leigh movie Vera Drake has won the Golden Lion prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. Vera Drake, which focuses on a fictional back street abortionist in 1950s London, also
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Actors Al Pacino, Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp attend the Venice Film Festival despite protests.
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Mike Leigh&#39;s &quot;Vera Drake,&quot; a film about a housewife in 1950s England who secretly performs abortions, won the Golden Lion for best picture at the end of the Venice Film Festival.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Surreal biopic wins praise at Venice film festivalÂ· Gere among five other actors portraying singer
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A new film in which Dame Helen Mirren portrays the British Queen is premiered at the Venice festival.
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A forest of golden lions line the red carpet leading to the Cinema Palace at the Venice Film Festival. Picture:Reuters. The Venice Film Festival amps up the star power, reports Stephanie Bunbury.
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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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Two very different movies about the Iraq  war are among the favorites for awards at this year&#39;s Venice  film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually  high number of male leads have stood out.
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Two very different movies about the Iraq war are among the favorites for awards at this year's Venice film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually high number of male leads have stood out.
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Secondo indiscrezioni la giuria non trova l&#39;accordo su &#39;Le chiavi di casa&#39; di Amelio. Argento e Giuria forse a &#39;Mare dentro&#39; di Amenabar. Venezia, 11 set. (Adnkronos) - &#39;Vera Drake&#39; verso il Leone d&#39;Oro e delusione
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Cate Blanchett is named best actress at the Venice Film Festival while Brad Pitt is wins best actor.
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Two movies about the Iraq war and its  impact on Americans back home are among 22 competition entries  at the Venice Film Festival this year, lending political weight  to a cinema showcase laden with Hollywood productions.
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The Chinese movie "Sanxia Haoren," or "Still Life," on Saturday took this year's Golden Lion, the top award at the Venice Film Festival.
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Vera Drake and Dead Man's Shoes take the lion's share of nominations at the British Independent Film Awards.
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"The Aviator" swooped to land the Best  Picture prize at Saturday's BAFTA awards but the Hollywood  blockbuster had to share the limelight with "Vera Drake," a  low-budget British drama about a backstreet abortionist.
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Director Brian De Palma has impressed critics at the Venice Film Festival with his graphic new film on the Iraq war called Redacted.
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Taiwanese director Ang Lee's sexually explicit spy thriller "Lust, Caution" was the surprise winner of the top award at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just two years after he won with "Brokeback Mountain".