The Spanish director won Saturday for the film “The Room Next Door.”
The film received an 18-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the Venice International Film Festival earlier in the week.
What do we know about the award?
Almodóvar was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 for his Spanish-language films. He also won an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category for the 1999 film “All About My Mother”.
“The Room Next Door” is Almodóvar’s first English-language feature that touches on euthanasia and climate change.
After collecting his prize, Almodóvar said that euthanasia should not be blocked by politics and religion.
“I believe it is the basic right of every human being to say goodbye to this world cleanly and with dignity,” he said.
He also thanked Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore for their performances in the film.
“The award really belongs to them, it’s a film about two women and the two women are Julianne and Tilda,” he said.
Other awards at Venice
The Grand Jury Prize, seen as the runner-up prize to the Golden Lion, went to Italian director Maura Delpero for his play “Vermiglio”.
Australian actor Nicole Kidman won best actress for her role in “Babygirl,” where she played a CEO having an affair with a young intern.
France’s Vincent Lindon won best actor for “The Quiet Son,” a French-language drama that deals with the subject of far-right radicalism.
Brady Corbett of the United States won the best director award for the film “The Brutalist,” which tells the story of a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who moves to the United States.
sdi/sms (AFP, Reuters, dpa)
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