‘Juno’ wins Rome Film Festival

Comedy is about a Minnesota teen dealing with an unplanned pregnancy

	Director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody with the best film award for their "Juno."
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updated 6:18 p.m. ET Oct. 29, 2007

ROME - “Juno,” a movie about a Minnesota teen faced with an unplanned pregnancy, won the best film award at the Rome Film Festival.

Ellen Page stars as Juno MacGuff, who tries to find a couple to adopt her baby. “Juno,” directed by Jason Reitman and co-starring Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman, was the first runner-up for the people’s choice award at last month’s Toronto International Film Festival.

The film opens Dec. 5 in limited release in the U.S.

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Rade Serbedzija won the best-actor prize for “Fugitive Pieces.” He plays Athos, a Greek archaeologist who saves a Jewish child from Poland who is orphaned during World War II.

A 50-member public jury, made up of selected moviegoers from Italy and elsewhere in Europe, judged the in-competition films at the second annual festival. The top awards were announced Saturday.

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Bosnian director Danis Tanovic, who won the best foreign film Oscar with 2001’s “No Man’s Land,” presided over the jury.