Nicole Kidman wins best actress award for ‘Babygirl’ at Venice Film Festival; actress misses acting honour due to mom’s death

Nicole Kidman won the best actress award in Venice Saturday for her no-holds-barred performance in “Babygirl”, but was unable to pick it up after the unexpected death of her mother. “I arrived in Venice to find out shortly after that, my beautiful, brave mother, Janelle M Kidman, has just passed,” the actress said in a statement read on her behalf by the film’s Dutch director, Halina Reijn.