UPDATE: Director Jane Campion has been awarded the Silver Lion for Best Director for The Power of the Dog at the Venice Film Festival. It is the first Netflix Original to win a prize at the festival, in a year where their inclusion has been hotly contested.
In her acceptance speech, Campion thanked the festival and particularly praised Benedict Cumberbatch’s leading performance as the Machiavellian Phil Burbank, saying he went ’round the world and back again to find this character, to strip himself bare.’
