Emma Stone-led Poor Things wins top prize at Venice Film Festival

Yorgos Lanthimos with the Golden Lion award for the best film Poor Things during the closing ceremony for the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Italy (Gian Mattia D’Alberto/LaPresse via AP)

Poor Things, a film about Victorian-era female empowerment, has won the Golden Lion at a Venice Film Festival largely deprived of Hollywood glamour because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes.

The film, starring Emma Stone, won the top prize at the 80th edition of the festival, which is often a predictor of Oscar glory.