The Oscar-winning actress Ellen Burstyn will be awarded at the Venice Film Festival with the Liberatum Pioneer Awardan award for his long career and his “exceptional contribution to advancing society through art.”
The iconic star, 91, will receive the prize during the Women in Creativity, an exclusive gala scheduled September 4th at the Blue Pavilion of Palazzina Grassi, organized by Liberatum – the international cultural organization founded by Pablo Ganguli, which unites culture, entertainment, media, technology and innovation – in collaboration with the patron Aaron Roni Neumark. Before the dinner and party, Burstyn will be the protagonist of a talk in which she will retrace her long career. Conversing with her is Simone Marchetti, Vanity Fair European editorial Director & Vanity Fair Italia Editor in Chief.
Liberatum, since its birth about ten years ago, supports gender equality, female leadership and freedom of expression. And with Women in Creativitythe organization aims to promote, during the Venice Film Festival, actresses, directors and artists who “have committed themselves with their work to telling stories of courage and resistance”. Last year the Liberatum Pioneer Award was given to the actress of Black Panther Angela Bassett and to the Brazilian anthropologist and activist You have Sacramento.
Ellen Burstyn made her Broadway debut in Fair Game in 1957 and became famous during the 1970s for her television roles, later becoming a star of the big screen with her roles, both nominated for Oscars, in The Last Picture Show (1971) by Peter Bogdanovich and The Exorcist (1973) by William Friedkin. In 1974 won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as widow Alice Hyatt in Alice doesn’t live here anymore by Martin Scorsese. A year later, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress for Same Time, Next Year. He also received an Oscar nomination for Resurrection by Daniel Petrie and Requiem for a Dream by Darren Aronofsky. On the small screen, Burstyn has instead received eight Emmy nominations, winning twice: in 2009 for a cameo in Law & Order: Special Victims Unitand in 2013 as best supporting actress for her role as Margaret Barrish in Political Animals by Greg Berlanti.
Source: Vanity Fair
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