Brad Pitt Heads to Toronto Film Festival

brad pitt , looks like a painter or a contractor, what is this clothes he is wearing specially that ugly hat ,he is loosing it.

By Mike Collett-White and Silvia Aloisi

VENICE (Reuters) - Taiwanese director Ang Lee’s sexually explicit “Lust, Caution” was the surprise winner of the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just two years after he won with “Brokeback Mountain.”

The movie is a World War Two thriller set in Shanghai featuring long and sometimes violent sex scenes which Lee has hinted were real.

“It is overwhelming, because this movie has taken me to some very difficult places,” Lee told the red carpet award ceremony on the Lido waterfront.

“I have invited you to come along with me and in the end to stay down there with me … You are the seven samurais, I needed your help,” he added, addressing the seven-member jury.
Brian De Palma, whose “Redacted” shocked audiences in Venice with its brutal reconstruction of the real-life rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers, won the Silver Lion award for best director.

Tunisian-born director Abdellatif Kechiche and his drama “La Graine et le mulet” (”The Secret of the Grain”), was one of two runner-up jury prize winners, and was described by the jury as the “revelation” of the 2007 edition of the festival.

The film is about an old Arab man and his family seeking to realize their dream of opening a restaurant in southern France.

While not overtly political, it touches on the issue of integration by immigrants, and whether they have what the director called the “right to be different.”

Todd Haynes’ “I’m Not There,” one of six U.S. productions in the 23-strong main competition, took the other runner-up prize for his conceptual biopic about singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

In a bold piece of casting, Australian-born Cate Blanchett was one of six performers to play the singer at various stages of his life, and it paid off when she was named best actress in Venice this year.

Hollywood star Brad Pitt was the surprise winner of the best actor award for his portrayal of outlaw Jesse James in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”

His co-star, Casey Affleck, who played James’ killer Ford as a creepy social misfit, had been widely expected to scoop the prize.

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She would have. She said she didn’t want to be defined by her marriage and it’s ending and that’s exactly what she is. Her doing.

The fact that she didn’t work for 2 years is a good clue and now that she’s a supporting player in a Drew Barrymore movie and her next lead is with Steve Zahn is the other.

I’m back to add a big congratulations to Cate Blanchett for her role as BOB DYLAN. All those artisically clueless haters who were ranting on Angelina for portraying Marianne Pearl, well here we have a woman portraying a man in a film and she wins a Festival prize.

Totally Cool! Good for Brad!! Can’t wait for “JJ” to get to movies! He looks just yummy in his “JJ” pictures.

Missouri Mama! Both your Bradleys are rocking it!!! LOL

Brad looks freakinfantastic in these pics.
Good for you Brad!

oh my~@-@
He is just simply gorgeous~

HERE’S TO YOU #42 … BRAD PITT “WON” BEST ACTOR AT VENICE FESTIVAL!

Ang Lee Film Wins Golden Lion at Venice Festival (Update1)

By Iain Millar

Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) — Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution,” an erotic thriller set in 1940s Shanghai, won the Golden Lion top prize at the Venice Film Festival, closing the 64th competition.

“I’m Not There,” a U.S. movie directed by Todd Haynes and inspired by Bob Dylan, and “La Graine et le Mulet,” a French film by Abdellatif Kechiche, shared the Special Jury Prize.

Accepting the award, Lee paid homage to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who died on July 30. “When I was in preproduction, I visited Ingmar Bergman on his island,” Lee said. “He touched my face liked a mother touches a child. He hugged me. Tonight, I pass that hug to you.”

Brian De Palma was voted best director for “Redacted,” which is about the conflict in Iraq. “Prizes are always great because it helps your film to be seen,” De Palma said. “But critics and prizes just tell you what the fashion of the day is. We don’t make movies to win prizes.”

The award for best actor went to Brad Pitt for his performance in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” directed by Andrew Dominik. Cate Blanchett won the best actress prize for her role in “I’m Not There.”

“Cate turned what could have been a stunt into a compelling performance,” director Haynes said.

Paul Laverty won the award for best script for “It’s a Free World” by Ken Loach, and Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci was presented with a special Golden Lion for his career. The seven- member jury was headed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou.

In this year’s festival, 23 films vied for the Golden Lion, which last year went to “Still Life” by the Chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke. Veteran French filmmaker Alain Resnais won the Silver Lion for best director in 2006 for “Private Fears in Private Places.”

The first Venice Film Festival was held in 1932. Among the earliest prize winners were directors Rene Clair and Rouben Mamoulian and actors Frederic March and Helen Hayes.

(Iain Millar is a critic for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the writer of this review: Iain Millar in Venice at id.millar@virgin.net .

Brad going to meet the most ugly and plastic women in the world. Jenifer Aniston. who “Tuned-up” from head to toes ha ha

He live with Angie his acting good . He got awards…. He should thanks his lover. If he cheat her , back to faked women Maniston He is a *****!