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The 2024 Venice Film Festival lineup is one of the most stellar we’ve seen for a fall festival in a long time. Lady Gaga (Joker), George Clooney and Brad Pitt (Wolfs), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Angelina Jolie (Maria), Julianne Moore (The Room Next Door) and Cate Blanchett (Disclaimer) are all scheduled to step onto the Lido carpet at the event, which runs from Aug. 28 to Sept. 7.
Artistic director Alberto Barbera is responsible for making the 2024 Venice Film Festival the most desired launch pad for the Oscars by all studios. When he took office in 2012 (he had held the same position from 1998 to 2001), Venice did not have the same point of prestige that it has today, as Barbera tells Vanity Fair. But in just a few years, it helps make the festival the glamorous getaway it has become, where dozens of films have begun their Oscar journey in recent years. .
Ahead of the start of this year’s festival, Barbera spoke to Vanity Fair about what it took to get Venice on track, the rivalry between festivals, and how they will take care of Brangelina during this year’s event.
Vanity Fair: We hear about the festival between the fall festivals (Venice, Telluride, and Toronto) for the biggest world premieres. Do you think this challenge is getting worse or better?
Alberto Barberá: They were worse years. In 2012, most American films liked to go to Toronto rather than Venice, because Venice, of course, is more expensive. Toronto is much less expensive and less difficult for them. In most cases, this was the option reserved for primary studies. So it was not easy to convince them all to return to Venice. In 2012 there were no studio films in Venice.
The following year we opened the festival with Gravity. It won the Oscar and was the beginning of a renewal in relations with the studios. After that, every year one or more movies went to the Oscars and then won the Oscars, like Birdman, Spotlight, La La Land, Shape of Water, Joker. So, of course, it’s easy now to have a movie, because the studios and the Americans have understood that they can use the platform of Venice to release the movie around the world and launch a crusade for the Oscars, with all the press we have. Venice. Array There is almost no press in Toronto, other than the industry press. We have around 3,000 media outlets from all over the world, so they can do genuine promotion of the film, marketing of the film, from Venice.
To what extent do you consider the balance between advertising films and films nominated for the Oscars in your programming?
I don’t like the idea of inviting an advertising film if the film doesn’t have, how to put it, a private strategy in the content. It will have to be oriented with specific interests from the filmmaker’s point of view and from the production point of view. There are so many films that I prefer to give the possibility of selecting a less public film than a purely advertising film.
Every year, there are moments that make headlines in Venice, such as Lady Gaga on a boat. Do you have a favorite moment like that in years?
Well, you talked about Lady Gaga. I think it’s the best example of a very special moment. Don’t forget the red carpet of A Star Is Born?It was magical, because she was on the red carpet with this lovely girl dressed in white with feathers and so on, and then it started raining, but she didn’t need to leave the red carpet. He stayed on the red carpet to take pictures, sign autographs, etc. And then it was completely wet. Then she came to my office, looking to dry off and get dressed. And Bradley Cooper was outside with me, discussing the movie and the expectations around the movie. And then she came out of the office and she was shaking and she said, “Oh, I don’t understand why. You’re used to that, to being in concerts with thousands of people waiting for you. “
She said, “Yes, of course, but it’s my first time in a movie. ” She trembles, but of course the critical and audience reaction to the film is fantastic. It’s a wonderful night for everyone.
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