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2014
The honor: The win on Adam Driver's record came first, before the Oscar and Tony nominations, and it came from a jury, not an academy. At the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014, Driver won the Coppa Volpi — the Volpi Cup for Best Actor — for Hungry Hearts, Saverio Costanzo's film, in which he played a young father in a marriage collapsing around a child. The Biennale's own record states the outcome in its juries history: Driver and Alba Rohrwacher, his co-star, "won the two Coppa Volpi awards for Best Actress and Best Actor." The Volpi Cup is one of the oldest acting prizes in world cinema, given at the oldest film festival there is, and its past winners are a roll of the century's great screen actors. It enters this ledger at raised-here strength and at full win size — the only first-place finish among the screen and stage honors in this section — and it is fitting that it belongs to the entry whose other lines are nominations: the academies nominated the Mishawaka graduate four, two, and one times; Venice, judging a single performance in competition, gave him the cup.
Sources:
- La Biennale di Venezia (labiennale.org), Biennale Cinema juries and awards history — the 71st festival (2014): Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher "won the two Coppa Volpi awards for Best Actress and Best Actor," for Hungry Hearts.