LIVE: Actors filmmakers walk the Venice Film Festival red carpet

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LIVE: Actors filmmakers walk the Venice Film Festival red carpet

Movie stars and filmmakers walk the Venice Film Festival red carpet ahead of the opening ceremony of the event’s 82nd edition.

The 11-day event sets the stage for the awards season. This with films premiering here over the past four years collecting more than 90 Oscar nominations and winning almost 20, making it top draw for actors, producers and directors alike.

The 2025 lineup is replete with buzzy, highly-anticipated films; the main competition includes Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. With Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, with George Clooney, Adam Sandler. Also Laura Dern and Billy Crudup, and Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, starring Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson

Alexander Payne is the jury president for the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. This year’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement awarded to Werner Herzog and Kim Novak..