Sigourney Weaver To Be Handed Venice Lifetime Achievement Award
deadline.comSigourney Weaver has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the upcoming Venice International Film Festival.
Venice chief Alberto Barbera called the thrice Academy Award-nominated Alien star “an actress with few rivals.” “Strengthened by her significant theatrical training, she won over the great film-going public with Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, soon becoming an emblematic figure of the 1980s,” he added. “As an authentic collaborator, rather than simply a malleable instrument in the hands of a director, she has contributed to the success of movies by James Cameron, Paul Schrader, Peter Weir, Michael Apted, Roman Polanski, Ivan Reitman, Mike Nichols, Ang Lee, and many others, each time imposing the mark of a complex personality — at times contradictory but always authentic — onto her own charismatic presence.
Endowed with a remarkable temperament, able to move with delicacy yet without fragility, she has created the image of a woman who is self-assured and determined, dynamic and resolute; at the same time, with endlessly different shadings, she allows her intensely magnetic, feminine sensitivity to filter through.” Weaver said: “I am truly honored to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from the Biennale di Venezia.
To be gifted this award is a privilege I share with all the filmmakers and collaborators I have worked with throughout the years.
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