EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Golden Globe-winning actress Helen Hunt might be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Italy’s Taormina Movie Competition in June.
The celebrated American actress has gained one Academy Award, 4 Golden Globes, and 4 Emmy Awards throughout her profession. She clinched a Finest Actress Academy Award and Golden Globe in 1998 for her efficiency in romantic comedy As Good As It Will get, reverse Jack Nicholson and Greg Kinnear.
Different profession highlights embody her position within the long-running New York couple comedy present Mad About You, for which Hunt gained three Golden Globes.
Hunt has additionally gotten behind the digital camera with directorial function credit together with Then She Discovered Me (2007), through which she co-starred reverse Colin Firth, and mom and son browsing world comedy-drama Journey (2014).
“It’s an honor for us to welcome Helen Hunt to Taormina. Her presence represents a bridge between nice worldwide cinema and the everlasting great thing about our land. Together with her magnificence, multifaceted expertise and creative consistency, Helen embodies the values that our Competition desires to have fun: ardour, dedication and love of cinematic storytelling,” stated Tiziana Rocca, Inventive Director of Taormina Movie Competition.
“The Lifetime Achievement Award is a heartfelt and well-deserved tribute to an artist able to inspiring generations of viewers and colleagues.”
The award ceremony will happen throughout a gala night in Taormina’s Teatro Antica. Hunt joins a a raft of beforehand introduced honorees for this yr’s version embody Martin Scorsese, Michael Douglas and Catherine Deneuve.
Taormina Movie Competition is an initiative organized by Fondazione Taormina Arte Sicilia, instantly promoted by the Sicily Area’s Division of Tourism, Sport and Leisure, with the help of the MiC, Ministry of Tradition – Common Directorate for Cinema and Audiovisual.
The 71st version of the Taormina Movie Competition runs from June 10 to 14.
