Ang Lee wins Golden Lion

ANG LEE’S steamy espionage thriller Lust, Caution won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival while Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett took the acting honours.

It is Lee’s second win in three years — his movie Brokeback Mountain triumphed in 2005.

Pitt was named best actor for his starring role in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, in which he plays the famous 19th century outlaw.