Ang Lee film is surprise winner in Venice
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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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The jury at the Venice Film Festival   left critics and journalists perplexed and in some cases vexed   when it awarded top prize to China's "Still Life."
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Spike Lee was at the Venice Film Festival in Italy watching on television as Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans last August.
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&quot;Vera Drake,&quot; Mike Leigh&#39;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
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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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"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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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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Moviegoers in director Ang Lee&#39;s native  Taiwan gave a thumbs-up to his prize-winning &quot;Lust, Caution,&quot;  appearing unfazed by the controversy surrounding it or the  steamy sex scenes.
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The winner of last year&#39;s Venice film  festival, Chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke, is back on the Lido  with a documentary exploring China&#39;s burgeoning fashion  industry and the social changes it reflects.
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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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Hollywood has turned serious with one eye on the Oscars in February, but it is elsewhere the jury may look when choosing which of 23 competition entries at the Venice film festival wins the Golden Lion on Saturday.
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With a strong American presence at this year's Venice International Film Festival, it didn't take long for U.S. politics to rear its controversial head.
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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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Ang Lee&#39;s movie &quot;Lust, Caution&quot; won the  Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on  Saturday.
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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.
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"Still Life," a Chinese film about   ordinary people set against the giant Three Gorges Dam project,   was the surprise winner of the Venice Film Festival's coveted   Golden Lion award on Saturday.
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Director Spike Lee was named Tuesday as a winner of the annual George Polk Awards for his documentary on life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.