Tom Ford's "A Single Man" wins Queer Lion at Venice Film Festival while Colin Firth named Best Actor. Watch Trailer

Fans of gay film films have been very curious about the movie A Single Man ever since word broke that Tom Ford was directing the movie based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood. Starring Colin Firth (Mamma Mia, Apartment Zero), Julianne Moore (Savage Grace, Far From Heaven), Matthew Goode (Brideshead Revisited) and Nicholas Hoult (Skins)  just had its coming out, so to speak, at the Venice Festival where it made a big splash.

Not only did the movie win the Queer Lion (for best gay movie) but Colin Firth was named best actor. 

A Single Man is playing Monday at the Toronto Film Festival and then heads to London for the London Film Festival before opening in the U.S. sometime in 2009.

Here is the trailer for the movie and given that it's directed by Tom Ford, it's appropriately stylish and very intriguing!

Thanks to AE reader Jude and everyone else who wrote in tell me about the news over the weekend!