Julianne Moore to preside over the competition jury at Venice
Monday, July 18, 2022 at 1:33PM by Nathaniel R
Julianne at the Met Gala. Image: AFP/Angela Weiss
Exciting news to report. Julianne Moore, who originally inspired my own career writing about film and thus this website, will lead the jury at the 79th annual Venice International Film Festival. The festival runs August 31st-September 10th so expect lots of Julianne gowns this summer. What a nice full circle monent this will be for the Oscar winning actress. She's a previous winner of the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Far From Heaven (2002) and this year she'll help determine who wins that same prize twenty years later. Penélope Cruz took the prize last season for her work in Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers which helped pave the way to her fourth Oscar nomination...
Joining Julianne on the jury will be French director Audrey Diwan (Happening, which won the Golden Lion last year at Venice - read our interview), Iranian actress Lela Hatami (A Separation), Italian director Leonardio di Costanzo (L'intrusa), Argentinian director Mariana Cohn (Official Competition), Oscar nominated Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Madre), and the British author/screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go, Living).
In other Julianne news
She just did a Q&A with Todd Haynes for Far From Heaven's 20th anniversary with Manuel Betancourt (a Film Experience alum!) moderating.
Bucket list moment moderating @Outfest’s Legacy screening of FAR FROM HEAVEN with these three legends. pic.twitter.com/rGJEPzW7iU
— Manuel Betancourt (@bmanuel) July 18, 2022
...and she'll next appear onscreen in Jesse Eisenberg's dramedy When You Finish Saving the World in which she runs a domestic violence center. She's very good in that film which A24 will distribute at some point. She's also finished filming a con-artist movie called Sharper which stars Sebastian Stan.
What's after that? Who knows! She might make a Lynne Ramsay / Margaret Atwood thriller Stone Mattress (thoughnothing about that project is set in stone yet). She is currently expected to star in the titular role in a film called Mothertrucker about an Instagram celebrity and a female trucker. The most exciting thing on her project list is a reunion with her greatest director Todd Haynes (Safe, Far From Heaven) for the true story scandal May December which will co-star Natalie Portman.
Reader Comments (6)
Whatever she does i'll be watching,i'm hoping she's Oscar nominated again someday and does not become a Susan Sarandon type winner.
All of these future endeavors show much promise for Julianne Moore’s trademark excellence. For me, nothing will likely equal the thrill of watching the ingenue for three years in the mid-80s hone her craft in her Daytime Emmy winning performances as Frannie and Sabrina Hughes, twins cruelly separated at birth and then finding one another much later in life.
And in a classy gesture, long after she was established as one of the finest actresses of her generation, she agreed to return to As The World Turns in 2010 to reprise her still beloved character as the soap opera went off the air after more than a half century of episodes airing five days a week.
@Mr Ripley79-Agreed. Plus, Susan Sarandon just needs to shut the fuck up when it comes to politics.
Here's something that has piqued my interest (after doing an imbd search tangenting from this article)... is there any other actor who has won the major acting prize from AMPAS (Oscar), Cannes, Venice (Volpi Cup) AND Berlin (Silver Berlin Bear)?
@Travis C; Juliette Binoche and Sean Penn did also and without tie in their victories.
A tie is still a win.
God, I love Julianne. Her next batch of projects sounds promising. She's had some good roles/films since her Oscar win, but there have been some real dogs, too.
I also would like to see her in the Oscar race again at some point, and I suspect she will--she works steadily, seems beloved by the industry, and is reliably excellent.