Venice Film Festival will present the Glory to the Filmmaker Award to Italian director Luca Guadagnino at its 2026 edition (September 2-12).
The award is dedicated to a person who has made ‘a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry’, according to the festival.
Guadagnino will receive the award on Tuesday, September 8, before the world premiere of his new documentary Joie De Vivre.
“To be honoured for one’s craft or life as a filmmaker is an ambition that no one who makes films could ever presume to imagine achieving - especially by joining a group of filmmakers who have received this prestigious honour before me and to whom I owe so much of my development,” said Guadagnino.
Venice director Alberto Barbera described Guadagnino as “an author who has managed to transform his curiosity into a form of creative freedom.”
Joie De Vivre will be Guadagnino’s 11th feature to premiere on the Lido, after films including 2022’s Bones And All, for which he won the Silver Lion for Best Director; 2024’s Queer; and last year’s After The Hunt.
The 435-minute-long documentary analyses the cinema, art and life of Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci.
Previous awardees include Al Pacino, Brian De Palma and last year’s recipient, Julian Schnabel. Agnes Varda is the only woman to have received the award in its 21 editions, in 2008.
Venice will open on Wednesday, September 2 with the world premiere of Danny Boyle’s Ink.
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