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| Actress and producer Isabelle Huppert at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19. |
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“Isabelle Huppert is one of the most famous and celebrated French actresses in the world.“, they greet in a press release.”His career embraces an immense part of the history of contemporary cinema.”
Favorite actress of Claude Chabrol, who directed her seven times, Isabelle Huppert won the best actress prize at Cannes at the age of 25 in 1978 for her role in his film Violette Nozierefirst collaboration with the French director.
Along with two other of their films, A women’s affair (1988) et Ceremony (1995), she was crowned in Venice. Her second acting award at Cannes was for The Pianistby Michael Haneke (2001). In 2009, she was president of the jury.
“Capable of moving from a sophisticated comedy to a demanding auteur film“, the actress has filmed with many big names in French and European cinema: Jean-Luc Godard, Claire Denis, Bertrand Tavernier, Diane Kurys, Maurice Pialat, Catherine Breillat, François Ozon, André Téchiné, Andrzej Wajda…
“Her insatiable curiosity and taste for unique experiences have led her to the United States, where she starred in Michael Cimino’s legendary +Heaven’s Gate+ (1980), but also more recently to the Philippines and South Korea, where she played under the direction of Brillante Mendoza and Hong Sang-soo.” the festival team still reminds us.
| Isabelle Huppert (left) for the film “Violette Noziere” by Claude Chabrol, and Jill Clayburgh for the film “An Unmarried Woman” by Paul Mazursky receive the Best Actress Award on May 30, 1978 at the Cannes Film Festival. |
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Double Caesarized as Best Actress, for Ceremony et Elle by Paul Verhoeven (2017), this latest film also earned him a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
With this Lumière Prize, she succeeds German director Wim Wenders, winner in 2023. Two other actresses have received it: Jane Fonda in 2018 and Catherine Deneuve in 2016.
“It’s a magnificent prize, just like its festival. And it’s a prize that bears the name of the inventors of cinema! Receiving it is a joy and a pride”, the actress told festival organizers.
Created by Thierry Frémaux, general director of the Lumière Institute and general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, this award celebrates “a personality of cinema for all of her work and the link she maintains with the history of cinema”.
Since its creation in 2009, the Lumière Festival has become one of the major international film festivals. The first to receive it was the American actor and director Clint Eastwood, now 94 years old. The prize will be awarded on October 18.
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