EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Golden Globe-winning actress Helen Hunt will probably be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Italy’s Taormina Movie Pageant in June.
The celebrated American actress has received one Academy Award, 4 Golden Globes, and 4 Emmy Awards throughout her profession. She clinched a Greatest 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 embrace her function within the long-running New York couple comedy present Mad About You, for which Hunt received three Golden Globes.
Hunt has additionally gotten behind the digital camera with directorial characteristic credit together with Then She Discovered Me (2007), by which she co-starred reverse Colin Firth, and mom and son browsing world comedy-drama Experience (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. Along with her class, multifaceted expertise and creative consistency, Helen embodies the values that our Pageant needs to have a good time: ardour, dedication and love of cinematic storytelling,” stated Tiziana Rocca, Creative Director of Taormina Movie Pageant.
“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 embrace Martin Scorsese, Michael Douglas and Catherine Deneuve.
Taormina Movie Pageant 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 – Normal Directorate for Cinema and Audiovisual.
The 71st version of the Taormina Movie Pageant runs from June 10 to 14.
