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Pedro Almodóvar Welcomes First A-List Fest Top Prize As ‘The Room Next Door’ Scoops Venice Golden Lion But Suggests It’s 40 Years Too Late
Pedro Almodóvar wins first ever top prize at an A-list fest with The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore
Pedro Almodóvar won his first ever top A-list festival prize on Saturday evening as his English-language euthanasia drama The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, scooped Venice ’s Golden Lion. The Spanish director has competed six times in Competition at Cannes and is also a regular guest at Venice, even receiving its career award in 2019, but he had never previously won the top prize at either festival. The filmmaker’s brother and producer Agustín Almodóvar was the first to point out the significance of Saturday night’s victory with a post on X, showing his sibling holding up the Golden Lion with the caption: “It’s taken 44 years.”
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