Abortion Drama &#39;Vera Drake&#39; Wins Venice Golden Lion
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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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"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 film in which Dame Helen Mirren portrays the Queen is being premiered at the Venice festival.
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La 61ma Mostra ha premiato &#39;Il segreto di Vera Drake&#39;, film inglese sul tema dell&#39;aborto, e &#39;Mare dentro&#39;, che affronta l&#39;argomento eutanasia. Delusione per gli italiani, a partire da &#39;Le chiavi di casa&#39; di
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A group of leading U.S. film critics named director Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" as the best film of 2004, and its star, Hilary Swank, shared best actress honors with Britain's Imelda Staunton in abortion drama "Vera Drake."
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Oscar-winning  director Bernardo Bertolucci will be given the Venice Film  Festival&#39;s honorary Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement,  the festival announced Monday.
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VENICE, Italy A film about a 1950s London housewife who secretly performs abortions has won the best picture award as the Venice Film Festival wrapped up.
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Ang Lee's movie "Lust, Caution" won the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday.
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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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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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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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"Juno", the story of an American teenager faced with an unplanned pregnancy, won the top prize at the Rome film festival on Saturday.
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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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Cate Blanchett is named best actress at the Venice Film Festival while Brad Pitt is wins best actor.
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Is the abortionist and mother who is the heroine of the new movie "Vera Drake" helping young girls or putting their lives in danger?
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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.