{"id":9143,"date":"2019-09-08T14:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T09:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2019-09-08T14:27:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T09:27:25","slug":"joker-wins-top-award-at-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9143","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Joker&#8217; wins top award at Venice Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Phillips\u2019 dark comic book film Joker\u00a0 \u00a0 won the Golden Lion Award at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on Saturday and cemented its place as a legitimate contender for the rest of the awards season.<\/p>\n<p>The comic book movie starring Joaquin Phoenix portrays the transition of an artist into an iconic villain.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s oldest film festival also awarded Swedish director Roy Anderson with the Silver Lion for &#8220;About Endlessness&#8221;, a human drama.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix did not win the best actor prize \u2014 it went to Italian actor Luca Marinelli for the Jack London adaptation\u00a0 Martin Eden \u2014 but the director of\u00a0 Joker<i> <\/i>\u00a0dedicated much of his speech to the talents of his leading man.<\/p>\n<p>Polish director Roman Polanski earned the Grand Jury Prize for &#8220;An officer and a spy&#8221;. He drew the ire of critics for winning the award while being convicted by a U.S. court for child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>A protest took place on the sidelines of the event with about 400 environmentalists holding banners saying &#8220;No to big ships in Venice&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Phillips\u2019 dark comic book film Joker\u00a0 \u00a0 won the Golden Lion Award at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on Saturday and cemented its place as a legitimate contender for the rest of the awards season. The comic book movie starring Joaquin Phoenix portrays the transition of an artist into an iconic villain. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1357,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9145,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions\/9145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}