Mumbai: Actor John Travolta has been conferred with a lifetime achievement award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The actor was honoured for his lengthy movie career at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland on Thursday. He was presented with the prestigious Donostia Award by his Savages‘ co-star Benicio del Toro.
“So much energy is spent in the nullification and invalidation of other people. So if some group of people get together to pat you on the back and say good job, I‘ll take it… thank you,” Travolta said after getting the award.
This is his second lifetime achievement award in a week.
Tag: San Sebastian Film Festival
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John Travolta gets lifetime achievement award
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Sony Pictures has US rights of Where Do We Go Now?
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the US rights of Nadine Labaki‘s Where Do We Go Now?
Produced by Anne-Dominque Toussaint of Les Films des Tournelles, Where Do We Go Now? won the Cadillac People‘s Choice Award at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, Best European Film at the 2011 San Sebastian Film Festival. The film is Lebanon‘s entry in the Best foreign language film category for the 2012 Academy Awards.
Set in a remote village where the church and the mosque stand side by side, Where Do We Go Now? follows the antics of the town‘s women to keep their blowhard men from starting a religious war. Women heartsick over sons, husbands and fathers lost to previous flare-ups unite to distract their men with clever ruses, from faking a miracle to hiring a troop of Ukrainian strippers.
“Nadine Labacki has made a warm, human film that is both perfect for this moment in time and will satisfy audiences across the country. We couldn‘t be happier about distributing Where Do We Go Now? and to be working again with our good friends at Pathé International,” said a statement of Sony Pictures Classics.
“To be added to this list of highly distinguished filmmakers supported by Sony Classics is an achievement in itself for me! I am proud and honored to say that I have become now part of the very prestigious Sony Classics family!”remarked director Nadine Labacki.
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San Sebastian fest honours Glen Close
MUMBAI: The 59th San Sebastian International Film Festival has honoured actress Glenn Close with the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award.The award was handed to her by director Rodrigo Garcia.
“It‘s a spectacular career that speaks for itself with some characters that have become historic,” Garcia said in his introduction of Close. After receiving the award, Close has been quoted in a remark, “This is the first lifetime achievement award I‘ver received. And what I am thinking of is the army of people I have collaborated with over the course of my career. They have inspired me, challenged me.”
Calling actors the “alien nation,” Close said that actors make people believe. “Everyone wants to believe something. And we can remind people how connected we are. That, to me, is a priviledge. I pledge to continue to find stories that I hope you will love and characters that you can find a common thread of humanity with.”
Talking to reporters about her work in Rodrigo Garcia‘s film Albert Nobbs, Close recounted how difficult it was to find work as an over-35 woman in Hollywood. Incidentally, the actress has written, produced and starred in the film.