ROME — “Poor Things,” a movie about Victorian-era feminine empowerment, gained the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Film Festival largely disadvantaged of Hollywood glamour due to the writers and actors strikes.

The movie, starring Emma Stone, gained the highest prize on the eightieth version of the competition, which is usually a predictor of Oscar glory. Receiving the award, director Yorgos Lanthimos stated the movie wouldn’t exist with out Stone, who was additionally a producer however was not on the Lido for the competition.

“This film is her, in front and behind the camera,” Lanthimos stated.

The movie, primarily based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the identical title, tells the story of Bella Baxter, who's introduced again to life by a scientist and, after a whirlwind studying curve, runs off with a sleazy lawyer and embarks on a collection of adventures devoid of the societal judgements of the period.

Other prime winners on the Lido had been two movies shaming Europe for its migration insurance policies.

“Io Capitano,” (Me Captain) by Matteo Garrone, gained the award for greatest director whereas Garrone’s younger star, Seydou Sarr, gained the award for greatest younger actor. The movie tells the story of two younger boys’ odyssey from Dakar, Senegal, to the detention camps in Libya and eventually throughout the Mediterranean to Europe.

PHOTOS: Emma Stone-led 'Poor Things' wins prime prize at eightieth Venice Film Festival

Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border,” about Europe’s different migration disaster on the Polish-Belarus border, gained the Special Jury Prize.

Peter Sarsgaard gained greatest actor for “Memory,” through which he co-stars with Jessica Chastain in a movie about excessive schoolers reuniting. In his acceptance speech, Sarsgaard referred to the strike and synthetic intelligence and the menace it poses to the trade.

Cailee Spaeny gained greatest actress for “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola’s portrait of the non-public facet of Priscilla and Elvis Presley.

The jury was headed by Damien Chazelle and included Saleh Bakri, Jane Campion, Mia Hansen-Løve, Gabriele Mainetti, Martin McDonagh, Santiago Mitre, Laura Poitras and Shu Qi.

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