Entertainment

Saturday's Golden Lion Is Not a New Prize

TL;DR

Reuters filed Woman Unknown's Golden Lion on Saturday. Monday has no second Lion. A recap is not awards night.

MSM Perspective

Reuters filed the winners table on Saturday. Monday does not re-award it.

X Perspective

Festival feeds treat a Monday recap as a new Sala Grande.

May el-Toukhy's Woman Unknown won the Golden Lion on Saturday. [1] Reuters listed the rest of the Sala Grande in the same file: Mathilde Arcel Best Actress, Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love for the Grand Jury Prize, Ilya Khrzhanovsky Best Director for DAU, John Malkovich Best Actor for Wild Horse Nine. [1] This paper printed that table when Saturday arrived. Monday has no second prize.

A Lion is not a U.S. release date. Gyllenhaal chaired the jury; that is Saturday's furniture, not a box-office print. Honorary Lions for Clooney and Burstyn were already in the week's file. Saturday's news was the competition Lion. Monday is not awards night again.

The Lido empties fast after the Lions; by Monday the festival is teardown and ferry schedules. Next year's competition exists only as submitted screenplays. Saturday's table is the entire record.

Teardowns follow tables; ferries follow teardowns. Monday's Lido is logistics. The record stands.

Standing records stand; Monday's stands. Standing is the update. Screenplays wait a year.

Year-waiting screenplays wait; Monday's wait. Logistics aren't prizes. Saturday's table is the record.

Saturday's table is the entire record. Monday's Lido is logistics. Teardowns follow tables; prizes do not.

The Sala Grande already read its list. El-Toukhy's Lion and the rest of Saturday's table do not grow a second prize because the ferries are running. Honorary Lions stay in the week's earlier file. This page reprints the competition night, nothing else.
Monday reprints Saturday's table. The Sala Grande already read its list. Monday's Lido is logistics.

Monday reprints Saturday's table. The Sala Grande already read its list. Monday's Lido is logistics.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles

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