MOVIES - Sept. 17, 1990

‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’ Wins: British playwright Tom Stoppard won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion Award Saturday for his first film, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” The jury, headed by American writer Gore Vidal, announced the award for Stoppard’s screen version of his 1966 stage fantasy about two minor characters in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Martin Scorsese’s gangster movie “GoodFellas” won the Silver Lion Award for best director. The jury awarded a special prize to director Jane Campion of New Zealand for “An Angel at My Table.”