Mathilde Arcel took Best Actress, the Volpi Cup, for Woman Unknown on Saturday. [1] May el-Toukhy's film took the Golden Lion the same night. [2] This paper printed both names in the lead. An Actress prize is not a second Lion. Print Arcel. Do not reprint the statue as hers alone.

Deadline filed Woman Unknown as one of two films by women directors in competition and el-Toukhy as the eighth woman to win the top prize. [2] Counts are counts. They are not a rewritten Lido history. Arcel's cup is the acting prize. El-Toukhy's Lion is the picture prize. Keep them separate.

No second Actress envelope is in Saturday's stack. Sunday can recap. Saturday awards once. Print the Volpi Cup. Leave a U.S. booking uninvented.

Two prizes for one film marks Woman Unknown as the jury's clear favorite. Favorites don't always win audiences next. Saturday's double is the critics' verdict, not the public's.

Critics' verdicts stand apart; Saturday's stands. Standing apart is the prize. Audiences decide later.

Audiences decide later; Saturday's Volpi Cup is the critics' half of a double. Woman Unknown already owns the Golden. Favorites don't always travel.

Arcel's Volpi Cup sits on the Actress prize, not on the Lion statue. El-Toukhy already has the picture prize on the lead page. One film took two cups on one Saturday night. American distributors have filed nothing this desk will invent.
Capi Cup sits on the Actress prize, not on the Lion statue. The Lion statue lives on the lead page. Two cups, one Saturday night.

Saturday's Actress prize is not the Lion. Two cups, one Saturday night. Saturday's Actress prize is not the Golden Lion.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles