An undisputed benchmark of European cinema and the star of international productions for four decades, Juliette Binoche, distinguished with the Oscar, the César and the Bafta, the acting awards at the Cannes, Berlin and Venice festivals, and the Donostia Award at the San Sebastián will receive the International Goya on February 11 at the Andalusia Auditorium in Seville, as announced by the Academy in a statement.
In its second year of existence, this prize, instituted to recognize personalities who contribute to cinema as an art that unites cultures and viewers from all over the world, has gone to the French actress “for her extraordinary career that places her as one of the most admired and recognized names in European and international cinema and their commitment to risky authors, reflected in a good number of unforgettable performances”. After Cate Blanchett, a figure of American cinema, the Film Academy recognizes a European actress with a global dimension.
Bad blood, The unbearable lightness of being, The lovers of the Pont-Neuf, Wound, Three colors: Blue, The English patient, Code unknown, Chocolat, Cache, The flight of the red balloon, Certified copy, Cosmopolis, Camille Claudel 1915, La Truth, Fire, On a Normandy dock… The list of films that Juliette Binoche has played is long, and she has not accused the lack of powerful female roles in her maturity. Recognized as one of the best actresses in contemporary cinema, she has worked since its inception with great directors and directors, including the Spanish Isabel Coixet, with whom she starred in Nadie quiere la noche, winner of four Goya Awards.
His second film, I greet you Maria, was directed by Jean-Luc Godard, a name to which he added those of André Techiné (Rendez-vous and Alice and Martin), Leos Carax, Louis Malle, Jean-Paul Rappeneau (The Hussar on the Roof), Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours and Double Lives), Bruno Dumont, Patrice Leconte (The Widow of Saint-Pierre), Emmanuel Carrère and Claire Denis (Fire). Philip Kaufman, Kieslowski, Anthony Minghella, Michael Haneke, Naomi Kawase, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Lasse Hallstrom, Kiarostami, Cronenberg, Koreeda and Isabel Coixet (Nobody wants the night, which earned him a Goya nomination) complete the list of filmmakers who have counted on this daughter of interpreters who made her Anglo-Saxon film debut in 1996 with The English Patient, a film with which she won the Oscar for best supporting actress. Since then she has worked with one foot in independent European cinema and the other in commercial productions such as Godzilla or Ghost in the Shell.
Trained at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, ‘La Binoche’, who was born in Paris in 1964, is always willing to embark on projects that are “a journey into the unknown, that discover a new world for me” and is “the ability to listen and, above all, to look at the director” the impulse to say yes to the proposals he receives and which have earned him the César Award, the Silver Bear La Palma de Cannes, the Volpi Cup, the Donostia Award and three Film Awards European, among others.
The Parisian, who has also participated in the television series The Staircase and stepped on Broadway with Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, will collect the International Goya in the year that marks the 40th anniversary of her first appearance on the big screen, at the title Liberty Belle, by Pascal Kané.
The day before the gala, on February 10, Binoche will have a meeting with the media at a press conference in Seville.
