British star Naomi Watts will receive the San Sebastián Film Festival’s prestigious Donostia Award during its 74th edition in September.
\n\nShe joins legendary German director Werner Herzog whose Donostia Award was announced early August.
\n\nWatts will pick up her Award on Saturday, Sept. 19 and screen “The Housewife, directorial debut of Canadian Ben Shirinian.”
\n\n“Watts combines independent films with big productions on both the big and the small screen,” the San Sebastián Film Festival said in a statement, calling her “one of her generation’s most talented and award-winning actresses.
\n\nBorn in England, but achieving a career in the U.S. and beyond, Watts broke out in David Lynch’s “Mullholland Drive, where her performance is “ranked among the finest in contemporary cinema,” said the San Sebastián Festival.
\n\nShe scored Academy Award nomination for best Aactress for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “21 Grams,” and a Academy Award nomination for J.A. Bayona’s “The Impossible.”
\n\nWatts has also worked with filmmakers including Peter Jackson, David Cronenberg, Clint Eastwood, Michael Haneke, Audrey Diwan, Noah Baumbach and Rodrigo García, with whom she came to San Sebastián in 2009 to close the Official Selection out of competition with “Mother & Child.”
\n\nShe earned a first Emmy Award nomination for…
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