Cate Blanchett will receive the Donostia Award at the 72nd edition of the San Sebastián Festival | Culture

Australian actress Cate Blanchett will receive the Donostia Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival in its 72nd edition, which will be held from September 20 to 28. The San Sebastian festival announced this Thursday in a press conference the name of the person who will receive the highest award of the contest, who will also star in the official poster of the event.

Blanchett, considered one of the best actresses of her generation at 54 years old, has been awarded two Oscars and four Golden Globes, and has been able to remain at the top of the Hollywood firmament for more than two decades with a career who has mixed very personal works with great blockbusters. Some of her most famous films are The Lord of the rings, carol, The curious Case of Benjamin Button, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or the recent Tar, which earned him his eighth Hollywood Academy Award nomination. The adaptation of the video game is pending release this year Borderlandsby Eli Roth, and the black comedy Rumorsas well as the miniseries Disclaimer, written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón.

Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviatorby Martin Scorsese, earned her her first Oscar, for supporting actress, in 2005. In 2014 she would win the Oscar for best leading actress for her role in Blue Jasmineby Woody Allen. It is not the first time that she has received an award for her career in Spain, where in 2022 the Film Academy gave her the first International Goya.

The festival will also present a Donostia award to Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who was unable to collect it last year due to the Hollywood actors’ strike. The event will open with the new version of Emmanuelle directed by Audrey Diwan, which won with The event the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival in 2021.