The French actress Marion Cotillard will receive the Donostia award at the 69 San Sebastián Film Festival, which will be held from September 17 to 25.
The honorary award will be presented to the interpreter on September 17 during the opening ceremony of the contest at the Kursaal Auditorium.
Cotillard is "one of the most international French actresses in contemporary cinematography," according to the organizers of Zinemaldia. Winner of the Oscar, the Golden Globe and the BAFTA Award for her portrayal of Édith Piaf in
Life in Pink
(Olivier Dahan, 2007), the interpreter “has shone with intensity in European and American productions that have led her to perform with equal talented dramatic, comedic and action roles alongside filmmakers such as Michael Mann, Christopher Nolan, Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh, James Gray, the Dardenne brothers, Arnaud Desplechin, Nicole Garcia, Leos Carax and their partner, director and actor Guillaume Canet " .
Cotillard is the protagonist, along with Adam Driver, of the musical
Annette
, by French director Leos Carax, a film that opened this year's official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, in which Driver plays a comedic monologue who falls in love with a diva from the opera, played by Cotillard. The film is being screened these days in Spanish theaters.
Born in Paris into a family of artists, she made her acting debut when she was still a child in one of the plays of her father, Jean-Claude Cotillard.
After participating in television series, he made his first film role in
L'histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse
(Philippe Harel, 1994).
His participation in
Taxi
(Gérard Pirès, 1998) earned him the first of his six César Award nominations.
Her fame in France “grew thanks to the romantic comedy
Love me if you want
(Yann Samuell, 2003), after which she made her first foray into Hollywood with the help of American Tim Burton, who included her in the cast of
Big Fish
(2003 ) ”, They remember from the festival.
The actress is also a co-producer of
Bigger than us
, a documentary by Flore Vasseur that gives a voice to committed youth and that will be seen in San Sebastián as a Special Screening of the Donostia Prize on Saturday 18 September.
The San Sebastian contest has unveiled in a statement the second Donostia Award of this edition, which will also honor the American actor Johnny Depp with this important award. Cristina Andreu, president of the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA), described the recognition of the actor's career as "inappropriate", accused of mistreatment by his now ex-wife, actress Amber Heard. José Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastián festival, defended himself against the criticism in a statement in which he appealed to Depp's “presumption of innocence and the right to reintegration”. Last March, a UK court dismissed the actor's claim against
The Sun
newspaper
for defamation: the magistrates considered what was published "substantially correct", that is, that Depp on 12 occasions attacked Heard.
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