Olivia Colman has been named best actress at the Venice film festival for her role as a frail and volatile Queen Anne in the quirky period comedy The Favourite.
Her performance has been described as showing “career-best form”. The film’s Greek director, Yorgos Lanthimos, also cast Colman in his first English-language film, The Lobster, a black comedy, for which she won best supporting actress at the British Independent film awards for her role as the hotel manager.
Its male lead, Baykali Ganambarr, won the award for best up-and-coming actor or actress.
Willem Dafoe won the best actor award for his role as the artist Vincent van Gogh in the biopic At Eternity’s Gate.