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Ellen Burstyn to Get Liberatum Pioneer Award at Venice Film Festival
Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn will be honored at this year’s Venice Film Festival with the Liberatum Pioneer Award for her lifetime contribution to cinema.
The 91-year-old acting legend will be celebrated at a “Women in Creativity” event and gala dinner in Venice on Sept. 4 at the Blue Pavilion in the Palazzina Grassi Hotel on the Grand Canal. Burstyn will take part in an on-stage discussion about her extensive career.
Burstyn made her acting debut on Broadway in Fair Game in 1957 and became a TV regular throughout the 1960s. However, her breakthrough came in the 1970s with Oscar-nominated roles in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show (1971) and William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as the widow Alice Hyatt in Martin Scorsese’s romantic drama Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore in 1974.
A year later, Burstyn clinched the Tony Award for Best Actress for Same Time, Next Year. She reprised the role in Robert Mulligan’s movie adaptation, earning her fourth Oscar nomination of the 70s. Two more nominations followed with Daniel Petrie’s Resurrection (1980) and Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream (2000).
On television, Burstyn has received eight Emmy nominations, winning twice: in 2009 for a guest role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and in 2013 for Best Supporting Actress in a miniseries or movie for playing Margaret Barrish in Greg Berlanti’s Political Animals.
The Venice event is supported by Pablo Ganguli’s “culture diplomacy” organization Liberatum and co-hosted by arts patron Aaron Roni Neumark. Last year, Liberatum honored Black Panther star Angela Bassett and Brazilian anthropologist and activist Ivete Sacramento.
The 81st Venice Film Festival runs from Aug. 28-Sept. 7.
Source: Variety
