Winners At Venice

Jia ZhangKe, winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film for "Still Life" ("Sanxia Haoren"), poses during the official awards press conference at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006. The Chinese director's film was a surprise entry late in the festival, and trumped candidates like "Bobby," about the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and "The Queen," about the week that followed Princess Diana's death.

Here is another shot of Jia ZhangKe. His movie, "Still Life," was filmed in the old village of Fengjie, which has been destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges Dam, and tells of people who go back there. More than 1.13 million Chinese have been relocated to make way for the dam, many of them complaining of bleak prospects in their new homes.

British actress Helen Mirren poses with the Coppa Volpi award for best actress for her movie "The Queen" by director Stephen Frears at the 63rd Venice Film Festival Sept. 9, 2006. "The Queen" also took the prize for best script.

Helen Mirren, winner of Coppa Volpi for Best Actress for "The Queen," poses during the official awards press conference at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006.

Here's another shot of Helen Mirren with the Coppa Volpi award for Best Actress for her movie "The Queen" by director Stephen Frears at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006.

Actor Ben Affleck, seen here Aug. 31, 2006, during a press conference for "Hollywoodland" at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival, won the festival's Best Actor award for his portrayal of cinema's first Superman, George Reeves.

Ben Affleck poses at the premiere of "Hollywoodland" on Sept. 7, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif. At the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, it was announced that Affleck won the best actor award for his role in the movie, which dramatizes an investigation into the death of George Reeves, star of the '50s TV show "Adventures of Superman."

Director Spike Lee attends a press conference for his movie "When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts" on the third day of the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 1, 2006. It was announced Sept. 9 that Lee had won the festival's Horizons documentary prize for the film.

Alfonso Cuaron poses with the Osella for Best Technical Contribution won by Emmanuel Lubezky for "Children of Men" during the official awards press conference at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006.

Emanuele Crialese, winner of the Silver Lion for Best Newcomer Director for "Nuovomondo" ("Golden Door"), poses during the awards press conference at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006. The movie, which won an award that the jury does not have to hand out, follows the voyage of a Sicilian family in the early 1990s from their homeland to America.

Isild Le Besco, winner of the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress for "L'Intouchable," poses during the awards press conference at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006.

Here's another shot of French actress Isild Le Besco as she receives the "Marcello Mastroianni" award for her movie "L'Intouchable" at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006.

Jessica Woodworth, winner of the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a First Film for "Khadak," poses during the awards press conference at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006.

Here's another shot of Jessica Woodworth, winner of the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a First Film for "Khadak," at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006.

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, winner of the Special Jury Prize for "Daratt," poses during the official awards press conference at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006. "Daratt" is about revenge in the civil war-scarred nation of Chad. It was the first African film in 19 years to compete for the festival's top Golden Lion award.

Liu Jie, winner of the Orizzonti Prize for "Mabei Shang de Fating," poses during the awards press conference at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2006.

Italian architect Renzo Piano, left, presents British architect Lord Richard Rogers with his career-achievement Golden Lion award in the Architecture Biennale gardens in Venice, Italy, Sept. 10, 2006.

The Silver Lion for directing went to Alain Resnais for his film "Private Fears in Public Places," an adaptation of British playwright Alan Ayckbourn's play of the same name, and tells the overlapping stories of six people's search for identity, spun around alcohol, sex and religion.

French actress Isild Le Besco poses with Alain Resnais' silver Lion at the Lido of Venice on Sept. 9, 2006, during the closing ceremony of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival. Renais was not able to attend the ceremony.

Actress Catherine Deneuve, president of this year's Venice Film Festival, and Marco Miller, its director, arrive for the festival's closing ceremony Sept. 9, 2006.