Venice Film Festival 2025 Standing Ovations, Ranked – ryan

Not Sinces Siskel and Ebert’s Thumbs has the Human Hand Held Such Sway Over Film.
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Is Everyone Ready to Get Your Clap On? Venice International Film Festival 2025 Began on August 27, and with It Comes BreatHless Reportage of Just How the Applause Lasts for Each Premiere. SINCE NOTING CAN CAPTURE THE MAGIC OF CINEMA QUITE LIKE AN EXCE SPREADSHEET, WE TAKE THE REPORTED TIMES and Avent I say Together. Why? Becusee We’re Meanies (Math Pun). And Because the Times Can Vary Wildly Outlet to Outlet; Variety is stingiest with its Times, while deadline is offten quite geneerous.

Although not as clappy as the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Still Has Quite the History of Showing Appreciation. But does it actually translate to wider post-festival season? Last Year, Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door Broke Venice’s Record (Previously Held By The Banshees of Iniserin) with 17.5 minutes, but the Movie wasn’t in the Awards Conversation for that Long. Howver, The Second-HoSt-Applauded Film of Venice 2024 was Brutistfor which Adrien Brody Ultimately Won the best actor Oscar. Mfl Players, Take Note of the Venice Film Festival 2025 Standing-o-meter.

Paolo Sorreino’s Fable About a Detachhed Yet Highly Moral Italian Prime Minister Opened The Festival. Its ovation was restrained and respectable, Much like the film’s protagonist. Variety CLOCKED The Ovation at Four Minutes, while Deadline was more geneerous with six minutes and 20 seconds.

Deadline was the Only Trade to Cover the Standing Ovation for Ilydikó Enyedi’s Biopic for a Ginko Tree. Apparently 5 minutes and 22 Seconds was all the creation staff, Including Star Léa Seydoux, COULD HANDLE BEFORE THE BUILDING AND CUTTING OF O-Meter.

The Latest from Luca Guadagino Only Got BetWeen Five and Six minutes of Applause – which is a Little Given that Julia Roberts was in the Room. Big-Name Celebs to up the Applause Length. Everyone wants another moment like brandan faraser tearing up at The whale screening.

Venice like Emma Stone’s Turn As a Bald Alien (Allegedly) in the Yorgos Lanthimos Thriller Bugonia. Stone, Lanthimos, and 2023 vulture comedian you show stavros halkias bashed in applause for eather six minutes 50 seconds, for Deadlineor six minutes flat, for Thr and Variety.

The Latest from Park Chan-Wook was walked Warmly in Venice (and reviped well on vulture). The film is about a man in crisis after merger and buyouts take out his at a Paper company. In 2025, No Story May Be More Relatable. Variety CLOCKED The Applause at 6 Minutes, while Deadline was more bullish with 8 1/2.

OSCAR ISAAC MADE HIS Second appearans on the lido, this time for his starring roles in Julian Schnabel’s Dante Alighieri -Nick Tosches Dual Biopic. Deadline TIMED The Applause for In the hand of dante at 9.5 minutes, while Variety and The Hollywood Reporter Said it was Only 8.

IT’S OFFICIAL: EVERY COUNTRY LOVES TO SEE ADAM SANDER. Jay Kelly, The new film from noah Baumbach Starring Sandler and George Clooney, has topped day one of the standing-o-meter with 9.5 minutes of Applauses. Deadline and Thr Both CLOCKED The Applause at Ten Minutes, while Variety Thought it melly 8.5 minutes of ovation.

Olivier assayas is bringing us political intrigue, and venice it up. Considering How’s Skewed the Politics of the Film Industry, ITH’S Exciting to See How He’ll Take on the Politics of, UH, Politics. Deadline CLOCKED The Ovation at 11.7 Minutes, Variety Said Only Ten, and Thr Refused to Assign a Number, Saying Only That The Film Drew “The Custom Standing Ovation.” Weird!

Kathryn Bigelow’s 11th Feature Also Earns Her 11 minutes of cheer. Deadline Reported a 13-mine round of Applause while Thr and Variety Both gave out 11 minutes, giving an average of 11.6 mins.

The latest from gus van sant, Starring Colman Domingo and Bill Skarsgård, clockwise 12.25 minutes of claps. That’s Nearly Twice What Other Kidnapping Story Bugonia Got Earlier in Venice. Maybe audiences found this anticapitalist Tale more Compelling.

Guillermo del Toro did well on the standing-o-meter leaderboard with his life on Mary Shelley’s Genre-Creating Creature Feature. Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac Shared a Teary Hug During the Approximately 14-Minute Applause Break. Deadline Said it was 15 minutes, Variety 13, and Thr in median with 14.

The Smashing MachineStarring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, was one of two-minute standing ovations on labor day. Booth Deadline and Variety Reported Johnson Getting Emotional As He Received the Honor.

Mona fastvold is beating her here Record; AFTER Getting A 12.7-Minute Applause for Brutist Last year, The Testament of Ann Lee GOT A 15-Minute Standing Ovation, Something all break tradition can aggree on.

The True Story of 5-YEAR-OLD Palestinian Hind Rajab Got the Longest Ovation of the Festival SO FAR, Somewhere BetWeen 21 (Thr‘S Count) and 23 minutes (Deadline). Variety Reported that Applause for the Film Continued After Theater’s Lights Were Dimmed. Actor Motaz Malhees Accept A Palestinian Flag from the Audience as People Chant “Free Palestine.”