Sigourney Weaver to Receive Honorary Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Oscar-winning actor Sigourney Weaver will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
Weaver said, “To be gifted this award is a privilege I share with all the filmmakers and collaborators I have worked with throughout the years.
I proudly accept this award in celebration of all who have helped bring these films to life.” Venice’s director Alberto Barbera, whose mandate was just renewed, said, “An actress of the caliber of Sigourney Weaver has 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.” “During the course of that decade, she forged the image of a heroine unprecedented in the action film genre, able to victoriously rival the male models who, up to that point, had dominated epic and adventure movies.
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