Movie star Javier Bardem will obtain a lifetime achievement award at Spain’s San Sebastian movie pageant.
The 54-year-old, the primary Spanish actor to win an Oscar, will accumulate the Donostia award on the opening gala on September 22, an announcement by organizers mentioned.
His picture may also function on the poster of this yr’s pageant.
The organizers praised Bardem for his “ability to slip into another’s skin as he morphs into his characters”, and a profession that has gone from “strength to strength”.
Bardem received the most effective supporting actor award in 2008 for his chilling portrait of a psychopathic killer with a wierd coiffure in “No Country For Old Men”.
He additionally portrayed homosexual Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas within the 2000 biopic “Before Night Falls”, and performed the villain within the 2012 James Bond film “Skyfall”.
Past recipients of the Donostia award — the pageant’s highest honor — embrace Meryl Streep, Richard Gere and Robert De Niro.
The pageant was initially supposed to honor Spanish language movies however has established itself as one of many world’s prime film festivals.
It hosted the world premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s spy thriller “North by Northwest” in 1959 and Woody Allen’s “Melinda and Melinda” in 2004.
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