Julian Schnabel will receive Cartier honor to the filmmaker at 82th Venice International Film Festivalwhich goes from August 27 – September. 6, 2025. The festival made the announcement on Wednesday.
Cartier Glory to the Film Maker Award is “dedicated to a personality that has made a special original contribution to the contemporary film industry”, according to an edition from the festival. Schnabel, Head of “Basquiat”, “Before Night Falls” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, will be honored on September 3, before the show of his new film, “In the hand of Dante,” with Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, John Malkovich, Martin Scorse, Martin SCORSE Juis, Juis, Franco. It is screening of competition.
Adapted from Nick Tosche’s novel by Dame name by Louise Kugelberg and Schnabel, “In The Hand of Dante” tells the story of a handwritten manuscript by Dante Alighieri’s poem “The Divine Comedy” traveling from a priest to a bully manager in New York City. There, Nick Tosches is tasked with verifying its authenticity.
“I first rose my foot in Venice in November 1976. At that time I went to Padua to see the Scrovegni chapel in Giotto and to see the paintings in Venice,” Schabel said in a statement. “I never dreamed that I would become a movie maker, Let Alone Be Honored with this award, and be included alongside so many filmmakers in admire, because in fact I am a painter. But I guess I am a movie maker as well. Receive the glory to the movie maker Award for the world premiere of my new movie ‘in the hand of dante’ means so much to me, as tracking dante and nick’s course in this movie has somehow reflected my own life.
Schnabel has exhibited his paintings and sculptures all over the world for decades, including at the La Biennale Art exhibition 1980, 1982, 1993, 1997 and 2003.The“Won Venice Grand Jury Prize and Coppa Volpi for best actor Javier Bardem 2000.
His drama in 2007 “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” got him the best director in Cannes before he was nominated for four Oscars. His 2010 feature “Miral” won UNESCO and UNICEF AWARDS at the Venice Film Festival and was shown at the UN General Assembly 2018, Hans van Gogh Biopic “At Eternity’s Gate” was shown in the competition at Venice Fest. It got Willem Dafoe Volpi Cup and a best actor Oscar nomination.
“Each of Julian Schnabel’s films is its own world. No one is like the one before or the after,” said festival director Alberto Barbera in a statement. “Yet it is not a coincidence that most of them are portraits of artists and passionate depictions of the artistic process. … His new function,” in the hand of Dante, “is his most ambitious project so far. As Martin Scorsese said when he is asked to describe them, Schnabel’s films are” plentiful, abundant and vibrating with life.
As previously announced, Alexander Payne are on its way to this year’s jury Venice, which also includes Fernanda Torres and Mohammad Rasoulof. New films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow and Guillermo del Toro will premiere there.
