67th Venice International Film Festival jury made in awarding prizes, and singled out Tarantino, accusing him of favoritism. He denied the charge. The international juries of the 67th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows: Main Competition (Venezia 67) Horizons (Orizzonti) Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film) Controcampo Italiano Persol 3-D The Leone d'oro (Golden Lion) award was won by "Somewhere", directed by Sofia Coppola, a film based in part on Coppola's childhood as the daughter of acclaimed American director Francis Ford Coppola. Quentin Tarantino, the president of the jury that awarded the prize, hailed the film saying, "it grew
The Outsiders (film) lasted only one season. The Outsiders (film) The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. The film was released on March 25, 1983. Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film. The film is noted for its cast of up-and-coming stars, including C. Thomas Howell (who garnered a Young Artist Award), Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio,