Director Julian Schnabel Expected to Receive Cartier Award at 2025 Venice Film Festival

Julian Schnabel, the American artist and filmmaker known for movies like "Basquiat," "At Eternity's Gate," and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," will receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the 82nd Venice Film Festival in 2025. This award honors individuals who have made a particularly original contribution to contemporary cinema and will be presented to Schnabel on September 3, ahead of the out-of-competition premiere of his latest film, "In the Hand of Dante." The film, adapted from Nick Tosches' novel, features a star-studded cast including Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, John Malkovich, and Martin Scorsese, and tells the story of a handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" traveling from a priest to a New York mob boss. Schnabel, who has exhibited his paintings worldwide and has shown films at Venice for nearly 30 years, expressed gratitude and surprise at being honored, reflecting on how the film's themes resonate with his own life. Festival director Alberto Barbera called Schnabel's work a gift to film and described "In the Hand of Dante" as his most ambitious project to date. The Venice Film Festival runs from August 27 to September 6, 2025.