Alexander Payne is packing his baggage for Italy: The Oscar winner has been introduced because the Venice Movie Competition jury president.
The 82nd Venice Movie Competition will happen from August 27 to September 6. Payne and the remainder of the jury will resolve the Golden Lion winner for the perfect movie, amongst different awards such because the Silver Lions for Grand Jury Prize and finest director, Volpi Cup for finest actress and finest actor, the screenplay award, the Particular Jury Prize, and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for finest new younger actor or actress.
“It’s an unlimited honor and pleasure to serve on the jury at Venice,” Payne mentioned in a press assertion. “Though I share a filmmaker’s ambivalence about evaluating movies in opposition to each other, I revere the Venice Movie Competition’s practically 100-year historical past of loudly celebrating movie as an artwork type. I couldn’t be extra excited.”
Previous Jury Presidents have included Isabelle Huppert (2024), Damien Chazelle (2023), Julianne Moore (2022), Bong Joon Ho (2021), and Cate Blanchett (2020). Alberto Barbera, the cirector of the Venice Movie Competition, recommends every president.
“Alexander Payne belongs to the small circle of filmmakers-cinephiles whose ardour for cinema is fueled by data of movies of the previous and curiosity about up to date cinema, with out boundaries or boundaries of any variety,” Barbera mentioned. “These qualities — alongside together with his expertise as a screenwriter — make him a great candidate to preside over the work of the Venice Jury, which is known as upon to judge movies from world wide. I’m grateful to Alexander for accepting my invitation, which seals an acquaintance that goes again to the times of his commencement quick movie at UCLA.”
Payne has gained two Oscars for Greatest Tailored Screenplay with “Sideways” (2004) and “The Descendants” (2011). His 2023 movie “The Holdovers” gained Greatest Supporting Actress for Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph. The director will revisit his 1999 movie “Election” for the sequel “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” with Reese Witherspoon reprising her function and likewise producing. The venture was introduced in December 2022. Payne is moreover engaged on a Western movie and reuniting with “The Holdovers” scribe David Hemingson for that script.
Payne can even shoot a Danish-language movie in rural Denmark.