Naomi Watts to receive lifetime award

Hollywood star, actor and producer Naomi Watts will receive a lifetime achievement award at Spain’s top film festival next month, organisers announced on Monday.
The San Sebastian Film Festival said the British-born Australian, a two-time Oscar nominee, would receive the Donostia Prize as “one of the most talented and recognised actresses of her generation”.
Watts, 57, first made a name for herself in David Lynch’s 2001 movie “Mulholland Drive” and has played versatile roles in both auteur cinema and major productions.
She earned Oscar nominations for her performances in “21 Grams” (2003), by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, and “The Impossible” (2012), directed by Spain’s Juan Antonio Bayona.
Iñárritu’s “Birdman” (2014), Woody Allen’s “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” (2010) and Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games” feature among her other standout films.
Watts was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work in Ryan Murphy’s miniseries “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”, on which she also served as an executive producer.
Watts has also stood out in recent years for raising awareness about women’s health and menopause.
The prize ceremony will take place on September 19 in the northern coastal city of San Sebastian, where the Spanish-speaking world’s most prestigious film festival will run from September 18 to 26.
A screening of the new film “The Housewife” will follow. Watts stars as the enigmatic wife of a suspected former Nazi official living in 1960s New York.
German director, screenwriter, producer and actor Werner Herzog is also due to receive a Donostia Award this year.— AFP