Actress Sigourney Weaver (New York, 74 years old) has won the 2024 International Goya Prize for “her impressive career full of unforgettable films and her inspiration through the creation of independent, complex and strong female characters,” according to the institution that awards the prize awarded, announced the award this Tuesday. , the Spanish Film Academy. The award, created for the 2022 edition, goes to a famous artist for the third time: the first prize went to Cate Blanchett and the second last year to Juliette Binoche. Weaver will receive the award during the 38th edition of the Goya Awards on February 10 in Valladolid.
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“Three-time Oscar-nominated, BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning actress Sigourney Weaver has created an unforgettable cast of characters in both comedy and drama, from Lieutenant Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist. [de Michael Apted]. “Over the years, she has captivated audiences and earned their admiration as one of the most popular actresses of stage and screen in the world,” the film academy said in a statement. “Weaver’s diverse body of work reflects her versatility, charisma and undeniable talent as an actress,” the document continued. It is paradoxical today to realize that when Weaver began studying theater at Yale, he was precisely told by his professors that he did not have enough talent to become a professional.
The award strengthens Weaver's relationship with Spanish cinema. The actress starred in the poster for the 2021 edition of the San Sebastián Festival, where she received a Donostia Prize. She also appeared in 2016's “A Monster Comes to See Me” directed by JA Bayona, for which she received a Goya nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Both will meet again at this year's gala, as the filmmaker will be competing with The Snow Society. Weaver had previously worked with another Spanish director, Rodrigo Cortés, on “Red Lights.”
“She debuted with a small role in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Ridley Scott made her a symbol of science fiction cinema and, with the help of James Cameron, she took part in the highest-grossing film in the history of cinema.” [Avatar]. He also appeared in front of the camera of Peter Weir, Mike Nichols, Roman Polanski, Ang Lee, David Fincher, Ivan Reitman and M. Night Shyamalan,” the academy said in a statement. He recently appeared on the big screen in Paul Schrader's The Master Gardener and James Cameron's Avatar: The Sense of Water.
The artist's name is actually Susan Alexandra Weaver, but when she read Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a young woman, she found the inspiration to change the name to Mrs. Sigourney Howard, a name mentioned only once in the novel becomes. When she enrolled at Yale University, she was more of a writer than an actress. There he met another future acting legend: Meryl Streep. Today both are cinema history.
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