Johnny Depp, Donostia award at the San Sebastián festival

Johnny Depp, in Barcelona, ​​in April.MASSIMILIANO MINOCRI

The American actor Johnny Depp will receive the Donostia Award at the San Sebastián Festival, the event's honorary award, which will celebrate its 69th edition from September 17 to 25.

The interpreter is, according to the announcement of the recognition, "one of the most talented and versatile actors in contemporary cinematography."

In that note, the festival does not clarify if this will be the only Donostia this year or more will be delivered.

The Donostia delivery will take place on September 22, before the out-of-competition screening of the Official section film

, by Manuel Martín Cuenca.

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The interpreter has been to the Zinemaldia on two previous occasions: accompanying Terry Gilliam in the presentation of

(he only appeared at the film's screening, he did not press) and last year as a co-producer and co-star of the documentary

. Depp (Owensboro, Kentucky, 58 years old) has been an Oscar nominee three times, and probably not with his best work: in 2004 with

- one of the installments of the saga that has become immensely popular in multiplexes around the world — the following year with

and in 2008 with

musical directed by his friend Tim Burton, who has been his on-screen alter ego for decades.

There are a handful of great titles in Depp's career, ever since he debuted at age 21 as one of Freddy Krueger's victims in A

Among those works are

(with his beloved Marlon Brando, a film that marked Depp's feature directorial debut) ,

or

His last work as an actor was to play the photographer W. Eugene Smith, a genius of portraiture and photojournalism, in the hesitant and finicky

However, in recent times, Depp is not going through his best moments. In March, a sentence against him was upheld in the British courts, in which he denounced

newspaper for defamation

The judge determined that Depp attacked his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, on a dozen occasions and made her "fear for her life" up to three times, with what was published by

which accused him of abusing, it was true. He is awaiting another trial in the United States, and this time it will be between him and Heard. A court in the State of Virginia will hear the actor's complaint against Heard for describing alleged abuse and death threats in an article in

a few months after reaching a divorce agreement. The name of the interpreter is never mentioned in the text entitled

The Warner studio has decided to fire Depp from the

saga

and replace him with Mads Mikkelsen to play Gellert Grindelwald in the third part of the series.

The Donostia award began to be awarded in 1986, and the first winner was Gregory Peck. Created to recognize the artistic work of performers, that rule was only broken in the 50th edition, in 2002, when Francis Ford Coppola received one (that year, his fellow honorees were Jessica Lange, Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper). Since 2017, directors have also been included, and the first to receive it was Agnès Varda. Last year, because of the pandemic, there was only one winner: Viggo Mortensen.