Gucci Group and the 65th Venice Film Festival today announced that visual artist Julian Schnabel, photographer and visual artist Isaac Julien, musician Adam Yauch, visual artist Steve McQueen are nominees for the third annual Gucci Group Award. The award ceremony will be held during the festival at Venice’s
Palazzo Grassi on September 1, 2008.
Members of the 2008 Gucci Group Award Selection Committee include Marco Müller, Artistic Director of the
Venice Film Festival, Franca Sozzani, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Italy, the artist Jeff Koons and Stefano Pilati,
Creative Director of Yves Saint Laurent.
Each year, the Gucci Group Award is bestowed to an internationally-acclaimed artist who has made a remarkable contribution to a film in any capacity within the past 18 months, as a director, actor, screenwriter, set designer, or costume designer. Each member of the Selection Committee nominated one artist, and together the Committee will determine the winner of the award.