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Thelma Schoonmaker wins Gucci Award

03 Sep '12
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Thelma Schoonmaker won the second annual Gucci Award for Women in Cinema during a ceremony and private dinner hosted by Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini this evening at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. Salma Hayek-Pinault presented Schoonmaker with the Award in recognition of her work as the editor for HUGO.

The following wore Gucci this evening:

Juror Frida Giannini, Presenter Salma Hayek-Pinault, Winner Thelma Schoonmaker, Nominee Colleen Atwood, Nominee Nadine Labaki, Nominee Brit Marling, Juror Dean Mary Schimdt Campbell, Juror Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, Luca Argentero, Charlotte Casiraghi, Myriam Catania, Virginie Couperie, Ginevra Elkann, Pierfrancesco Favino, Isabella Ferrari, Claudia Gerini, Nayla Al Khaja, Hidetoshi Nakata, Maya Sansa, Trudie Styler.
 
Other guests included:
 
Nominee Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Patrizio di Marco, Francois-Henri Pinault, Francois and Maryvonne Pinault, Paolo Baratta, Alberto Barbera, Guido and Nicoletta Barilla, Alessandro Benetton, Peter Brant, Dylan Brant, Peter Brant II, Harry Brant, Marina Cicogna, Adriano Giannini, Hugh Hudson and Maryam d’Abo, Michael Mann, Peggy Siegal, Bob Sinclar, Giovanni Volpi di Misurata, Harvey Weinstein. 
 
Nominees for the Gucci Award for Women in Cinema were selected from a range of disciplines including director, actor, producer, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor, and costume designer by an Advisory Committee led by Venice International Film Festival Director Alberto Barbera.
 
The nominees are:
- Colleen Atwood: costume designer, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
- Nadine Labaki: director, WHERE DO WE GO NOW?
- Brit Marling: actor, ANOTHER EARTH
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: director, SAVING FACE
- Thelma Schoonmaker: editor, HUGO 
 
A jury led by Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini selected Schoonmaker from this group of distinguished women. Giannini’s fellow jurors included: actress Zoë Saldana; director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino; Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; and film journalist, curator and the Venice International Film Festival’s US Programmer Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan.
 
Gucci is proud to have joined forces with one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals to spotlight and acclaim the unique contributions women make to the film industry in a wide range of capacities.  In honor of this occasion, Gucci will again make a grant of US$25,000 to the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in the name of the Award recipient. 

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