2023-05-13 17:26:53
the 71e edition of the Spanish meeting will honor the 54-year-old actor in September, after having already distinguished his wife Penelope Cruz in 2019.
The consecration was not long in coming. The 71e edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival, which will be held from September 22 to 30 in this city in northern Spain, will pay tribute to Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who will receive an honorary prize there, the organizers announced on Friday. .
The actor, who already won an Oscar and a Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, “will receive the highest honour” you festival “during the opening gala on Friday, September 22”, they say in a press release. Javier Bardem, who came for the first time to the San Sebastian festival thirty years ago for the presentation of the film Machowill see, moreover, his face appear “on the official posterof this 71e edition, it is specified.
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According to the organizers, he will be the sixth Spanish actor to receive this honorary award, after notably Antonio Banderas in 2008 and Carmen Maura in 2013. The actress and wife of Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, was also awarded by the festival in 2019. Born in the Canary Islands in 1969, Javier Bardem is the most awarded Spanish actor of his generation, but also one of the most prolific, with more than fifty films to his credit, particularly in Hollywood.
The actor, married since 2010 to Penelope Cruz, received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2008 for No Country for Old Men and the Best Actor Award at Cannes in 2010 for Biutiful . In an interview with AFP, he confided in 2019 “do not receive projects” in Spain, “because people always think that I live abroad, (…), which is not the reality”. He has since resumed service in his country with the good pattern by Fernando León de Aranoa, which won him the Goya Award for Best Actor in February 2022.
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