Saoirse Ronan Wins Biarritz Nouvelles Vagues Festival Acting Honors For ‘The Outrun,’ ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ Wins Grand Prize
variety.comBen Croll Building on strong notices out of Sundance and Berlin, Saoirse Ronan has now won the Biarritz Nouvelles Vagues Festival‘s top acting honor for her role in “The Outrun.” Directed by Nora Fingscheidt and adapted from an acclaimed memoir by Amy Liptrot, “The Outrun” follows a young woman emerging from the throes of addiction, intercutting timelines and locales to track a downward spiral in London and the unsteady steps towards recovery along the rugged Scottish coast.
Ronan’s acute and flinty lead performance has earned the four-time Oscar nominee some of the highest praise of her career, possibly heralding another awards run should “The Outrun” land a U.S.
release date. This recent reception in Biarritz — where Ronan, in absentia, won the festival’s sole acting trophy while the film also took home the Culture Pass jury prize — might help on that front.
The festival’s grand prize went to Shuchi Talati’s mother-daughter coming-of-age drama “Girls Will Be Girls,” adding to an awards haul that also includes both an audience award and a special jury prize for acting out of Sundance.
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