Venice Film Festival Award Winners (Updating Live)

Amid a busy fall festival season, all eyes are back on the Lido Saturday night as we eagerly await the winners from the 83rd Venice Film Festival .

The honors are being handed out by the international jury, headed up by U.S. filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal, as stars are dressed to the nines one last time for this year’s final, glitzy Lido red carpet event.

Among the frontrunners is NAZA , a documentary from Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, and a late addition to the Venice lineup, which features testimony from 24 Israeli military officers outlining the systems and protocols they allege Israel uses to target and kill civilians in Gaza. The film’s title, NAZA , comes from an acronym the Israeli military uses as a shorthand for civilian casualties. The film’s Venice premiere was a sensation, with the gala audience giving it a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation. Related Stories Movies Barbara Kopple Returns to the Picket Line Movies 'Back to Buenos Aires' Review: A Brooding Drama Revisits the Violent Days of Argentina's Dictatorship, and the Traumas That Remained in Its Wake

A favorite going into the awards was Possible Love from acclaimed Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong ( Burning ). The social drama, about a struggling working class family and the well-to-do documentarian who picks them as a subject for her new film, received some of the best reviews out of Venice, with most, like The Hollywood Reporter ‘s David Rooney, singling out the film’s “superlative ensemble” including veteran Korean actors Jeon Do-yeon ( Secret Sunshine ), and Sul Kyung-gu ( Peppermint Candy , Oasis ), alongside rising stars Zo In-sung ( Hope , Moving ) and Cho Yeo-jeong ( Parasite ). Netflix will be confident of its award-season chances for the film, which has been selected by South Korea as its pick for the Best International Feature race.

Wild Horse Nine , Martin McDonagh’s pitch-black buddy comedy starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA operatives in Chile in the 1960s, was arguably the biggest crowd pleaser in Venice this year. The movie, which is going out worldwide via Searchlight Pictures, could also have awards legs, particularly for Malkovich, who gives a sharp, and surprisingly touching performance as a veteran CIA agent facing a self-reckoning.

Low-market tabloid sleaze were the subjects of two of the starry Venice competition entries this year. Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime , starring Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, divided critics, though most, including The Hollywood Reporter , were impressed by Pattinson’s performance. Critics were kinder to Danny Boyle’s Ink , an adaptation of James Graham’s stage play about Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of The Sun newspaper and the creation of his right-wing media empire.