Red Carpet Lineup: 30 Looks from Venice 2020
Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 5:48PM 
The 77th Venice Film Festival wrapped today with the Golden Lion going to Chloe Zhao's Nomadland (which we'd predicted as far back as our annual April Foolish Predictions to be in the forthcoming Best Picture and Best Director lineups (we'll update all those charts this week). Venice wasn't the star-studded affair it usually is due to the shortage of travel and the ongoing troubles of the pandemic but they shouldered on. Cate Blanchett was in town for the whole festival as the President of the Jury and she made the all too rare decision to be sustainably fashionable by wearing only red carpet looks she'd worn before at other glitzy events. But her superpower, well one of them at any rate, is to make any year's fashions look utterly timeless.
29 other looks after the jump from the small batch of stars who went to Venice...
Lotte Verbeek, Cate, and Tilda Swinton in the coolest set of outdoor pajamas we've seen at a festival since Ryan Gosling's much obsessed over Cannes look a few years back.
Actress Romola Garai, promoting her new film Miss Marz (in competition) and celebrated playwright Jeremy O Harris both attended the festival. The Crown's new Princess Diana, Emma Corrin, also showed and kept a Venice diary for Vogue magazine.
Maya Hawke made lots of headlines with her Versace gown to promote her premiere Mainstream. Katherine Waterston was in Venice for her premiere The World to Come which takes place on the American frontier of 1850. And here's Cate again. There's never enough Cate.
It's a chic lineup of filmmakers: Mati Diop (of Atlantics fame), Gia Coppola (Sofia's niece), and the legendary Claire Denis (Beau Travail, White Material, High Life)
Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Colour), Mati Diop again, and Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) were all in town to support new projects. Kirby's film Pieces of a Woman was in competition.
James Norton, last seen in Little Women, headlines the new Italian world premiere Nowhere Special (which is in English) about a dying single father who is trying to find a home for his young son. Director Małgorzata Szumowska from Poland was there to represent her new Oscar submission Never Gonna Snow Again which received strong reviews. We don't normally include photos when the full gown isn't visible but we couldn't find a full length picture and isn't that texture amazing? She looks stunning.
And finally in this line up is one of the best young actresses working Raffey Cassidy (Killing of a Sacred Deer, Vox Lux) was also in Venice though we're not sure why since her next project hasn't started filming yet. However several of the stars of Brady Corbet's next film The Brutalist, including Cassidy, were in town so perhaps it was a funding trip?
Amira Casar (Call Me By Your Name) who co-starred in the Venice premiere Honey Cigar and Italian TV star Livio Beshir hit the red carpet.
And here's Cate again, away from the carpet but she's been in Venice the whole festival as President of the Jury. Her t-shirt here is a political statement in support of The University of Theater and Film Arts, in Hungary. They're underfunded and under attack from their government.
Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac) who will also be in The Brutalist was in Venice to promote the French competition film Amants (Lovers). She headlines with two French male movie stars we love, Pierre Niney and Benoît Magimel.
There's Tilda Swinton again looking ultra stylish just walking the Venice streets -- you wear outfits this chic to run errand, too, right? And finally Cate in black and white on Venice's pristinely red carpet.
Raffey Cassidy again. Plus rising star Nathalie Emmanuel. And look it's the ever watchable French movie star Ludivine Sagnier (why haven't we heard of any new films of hers Stateside?) who served on the Venice jury with Blanchett & Co.
Matt Dillon and Cate Blanchett, the "Hollywood" members of the jury, walking the carpet together.
Venice is now a wrap. More on the winning movies a bit later.
Reader Comments (17)
1. Cate's Australian. Or did she get American citizenship recently?
2. I SOOO wish Cate had recycled that pink dress she wore at Cannes '15.
Now I can see Cate Blanchett in an Addams Family movie.
After all of the worshipping at the altar, you go and call Cate Blanchett an AMERICAN jury member? We here down under are aghast!
Chris & Travis -- omg. i am mortified at myself. It's fixed. I have no idea what was going on as i was typing. haha.
If Nomadland is half as good as The Rider, it'll deserve every Oscar in sight! And if it's even better than that, well ...
Tilda's pajamas are awesome. Cate Blanchett, classy as usual. Adele and Maya Hawke! WOW!!!!! Happy to hear that Vanessa Kirby won the Volpi Cup as she's going to kick some ass in the years to come.
Ken -- did you see the teaser. I absolutely love it. I love teasers that are just whispers of what a movie will be like by just including one scene.
thevoid99 -- i'm not even a fan of adele or Maya in particular but agreed they look sensational
At this point, anyone wearing a face mask is a great look for me. Safety before style!
Funny you say that, because when I saw the photo at the top I was getting serious Anjelica Huston in The Grifters vibes.
Everyone looks great and seems like the festival was very cruisy festival, which is nice for a change. Hopefully we don't hear in a week's time of Cate getting COVID!
I love that it looks like Tilda wanted to give us some Almodovar realness on the occassion of The Human Voice première: The beautiful trench look is sooo Julieta! Love the shoes but if only she had worn sneakers! And those pajamas are directly from Almodovar's own personal wardrobe!
Cate and Tilda are my two best-dressed celebrities (give or take Lupita), so I love this post.
I cannot wait to see Nomadland and Pieces of a Woman feels like it could be very special, too (nomination #7 for Ellen Burstyn, please!).
Wow. Cate really is a style icon. All of those looks are incredible.
Kate in that black gown is classic movie star glamor
Think Amira Casar is mostly known as a French actress, not Italian.
(born and raised in England, similar to Eva Green )
Adele is looking very Kardashian-esque.
Thanks for posting these images. I am really admiring Cate Blanchett right now. What an artist. I hope she continues to evolve and do well.