Annette Bening was elected President of the Jury at the 74th Venice Film Festival

Annette Benin

According to foreign media reports, the chairman of the jury of the main competition unit of the 74th Venice Film Festival has recently announced that the American actress Annette Bening has been elected.

Annette Bening, 59 years old, has starred in many works such as "Proud Of The World", "Twentieth Century Woman", "Mother and Son", and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress three times for the films "American Beauty", "Become Julia" and "The Kids Are Fine", and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Deadly Gamble". In 2017, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy for her brilliant performance in the film "Woman of the Twentieth Century", but missed the Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her husband was Warren Beatty, the guest of honor at the 2017 Academy Awards, who made a fuss about the "Best Picture Big Oolong."

Annette Benning is the actress who was re-elected president of the jury of the main competition section after Catherine Deneuve of the 63rd Venice Film Festival. In the past 10 years, the president of the jury, except for the 71st as a soundtrack, the rest of the identities are directors, and all are men.

Barbara, artistic director of the Venice Film Festival, said: "It's time to break the situation that has always been chaired by men, and we have invited a talented and inspiring woman to chair the jury for the new session. Annette Bening is the sixth female president of the jury in the history of the Venice Film Festival, the remaining five being the French actress Catherine Deneuve in 2006, the Chinese actress Gong Li in 2002, the New Zealand director Jane Campion in 1997, the Italian screenwriter Suso Cheki Damico in 1980, and the French actor and director Sabine Azema in 1987.

It is reported that the 74th Venice Film Festival will be held from August 30 to September 9, 2017 local time, at present, the official film selection has been closed, there have been rumors that george Clooney's film "Lost Town" will open for Venice, but there is still no exact information about the opening and closing films and the shortlisted films. On July 27, all jury members of the main competition unit will be announced.