Venice Film Festival 2016 winners list: Emma Stone wins Best Actress for La La Land leading to early Oscar buzz

The Golden Lion went to Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left

Lav Diaz’s Filipino drama The Woman Who Left scooped the highest prize given at the Venice Film Festival 2016, The Golden Lion, while Tom Ford’s second feature-length film, Nocturnal Animals, triumphed, taking the Grand Jury Prize.

Emma Stone took Best Actress for her role in La La Land, one of the best-reviewed films from the festival, leading to early Oscar buzz.

Meanwhile, the Natalie Portman-starring Jackie - a study of Jackie Kennedy that has also received rave reviews - won Best Screenplay.

The jury was overseen by Skyfall and Spectre director Sam Mandes, with notable absentees from the winners list including Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival and Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time.

Venice Film Festival winners list

Golden Lion:

The Woman Who Left, Lav Diaz

Grand Jury Prize:

Nocturnal Animals, dir: Tom Ford

Silver Lion, Best Director:

Amat Escalante, La Region Salvaje

Andrei Konchalovsky, Paradise

Volpi Cup, Best Actress:

Emma Stone, La La Land

Volpi Cup, Best Actor:

Oscar Martinez, El Ciudadano Ilustre

Best Screenplay:

Noah Oppenheim, Jackie

Special Jury Prize:

The Bad Batch, dir: Ana Lily Amirpour

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress:

Paula Beer, Frantz

Venice Horizons

Best Film:

Liberami, dir: Federica Di Giacomo

Best Director:

Fien Troch, Home

Special Jury Prize:

Big Big World, dir: Reha Erdem

Best Actress:

Ruth Diaz, The Fury Of A Patient Man

Best Actor:

Nuno Lopes, Sao Jorge

Best Screenplay:

Wang Bing, Bitter Money

Best Short Film:

La Voz Perdida, dir: Marcelo Martinessi

Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film:

The Last Of Us, dir: Ala Eddine Slim

Venice Classics:

Best Restoration:

Break-Up – The Man With The Balloons, dir: Marco Ferreri

Best Documentary on Cinema:

Le Concours, dir: Claire Simon