Actress
Cate Blanchett will receive the
International Goya Award
on Saturday, February 12
, an award created by the
Film Academy
to "recognize personalities who contribute to cinema as an art that unites cultures and viewers from around the world."
The actress will be present in Valencia to collect the award, as sources from the Academy have confirmed.
Instituted for world cinema figures, in its first edition it has gone to the Australian performer and producer for being "
an actress who has played unforgettable characters
that are already part of our memory and our present".
Blanchett
is an actress, producer, artistic director and also known for humanistic work.
She is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN refugee agency, as well as a member of the Australian Conservation Foundation.
He is also a figure committed to the
Australian Wildlife Conservancy
and has received the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos for his work for UNHCR.
In 2012,
Blanchett
was invested as a Knight of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.
He has presided over the
Cannes Festival
(2018) and
Venice
(2020).
He has received Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney and Macquarie University, as well as being a Companion of the Order of Australia for his "continued commitment to nature and social equality".
Currently, the actress is embarking on the pre-production of the series
Disclaimer
, directed by
Alfonso Cuarón
for Apple Plus, in which she will star and of which she will be the executive producer.
She just finished shooting
Todd Field 's
TAR
,
which she also produces and stars in, and
Guillermo del Toro
's version of
Pinocchio
for Netflix.
Currently in theaters is
The Alley of Lost Souls
, also by
Del Toro
(Searchlights Pictures), in addition to the film
Don't Look Up
, by
Adam McKay
, which can be seen on Netflix.
In addition, she will be the protagonist of
Manual for cleaning women
, by
Pedro Almodóvar
, an adaptation of the book by Lucia Berlin produced by the actress's company, El Deseo and Dirty Films, a company of which she is the founder and director together with Andrew Upton (with whom he chaired and artistically directed the Sydney Theater Company from 2008 to 2014).
Blanchett
has two Oscars - for Best Leading Actress for
Woody Allen 's
Blue Jasmine
and for
Best Supporting Actress for
Martin
Scorsese 's
The Aviator
-;
three Golden Globes;
three BAFTAs;
and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
She has been the queen of the elves in
The Lord of the Rings
trilogy and
Bob Dylan
in
I'm Not There
.
The protagonist of
Carol
participated in the fourth installment of
Indiana Jones
and has worked with
Anthony Minghella
('The Talented Mr. Ripley'),
Sally Potter
('Furtive Lives'),
Steven Soderbergh
('The Good German'),
Jim Jarmusch
('Coffee and Cigarrettes'),
Wes Anderson
('Life Aquatic'),
Ridley Scott
('Robin Hood') and
Richard Linklater
('Where Are You Bernadette'), among others.
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