The chameleon Johnny Depp will be the one who receives this year one of the Donostia Awards on September 22 at the Kursaal Auditorium, within the 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival, as announced this Monday by the San Sebastian film contest. The American actor will receive the award in one of the most turbulent moments of his life for the confrontation with his ex Amber Heard.
Depp has been nominated three times for the Oscar, has obtained a Golden Globe He has been nominated ten times, has been recognized with the best actor award and six nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, and was the winner in the 14th edition of the People’s Choice Award.
An interpreter in more than 90 audiovisual productions, he has also produced a dozen films, including the most recent, ‘Minamata’ (The Minamata Photographer, 2020), by Andrew Levitas; ‘Hugo’ (The Invention of Hugo, 2011), directed by Martin Scorsese, or ‘Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan’ (Crock of Gold: Drinking with Shane MacGowan, 2020), directed by Julien Temple, which obtained the Special Jury Prize at the last San Sebastian Festival. He has also directed shorts and the feature film ‘The Brave’ (1997), which he also wrote and which featured Marlon Brando as a performer.
Johnny Depp He made his film debut at the age of 21 as the victim of Freddy Krueger in ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ (A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984) and the relationship with the audience crystallized in the early 90s through his leading roles in the film by cult ‘Cry-Baby’ (The tear, Zabaltegi 1990), written and directed by John Waters, and his first collaboration with Tim Burton, ‘Edward Scissorhands’ (‘Eduardo Scissorhands’, 1990).
In the following years he would star in films directed by such relevant filmmakers as Emir Kusturica (‘Arizona Dream’ / ‘The Arizona Dream’, 1992), Lasse Hallström (‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?’ / ‘Who does Gilbert Grape love?’ , 1993, and ‘Chocolat’, 2000), Tim Burton (‘Ed Wood’, 1994, and ‘Sleepy Hollow’, 1999), Jim Jarmusch (‘Dead Man’, 1995), Mike Newell (‘Donnie Brasco’, 1997 ) and Terry Gilliam (‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ / ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, 1998), a filmmaker to whom the Festival dedicated a retrospective.
His portrayal of the captain Jack Sparrow In the saga of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ (2003, 2006, 2007, 2011 and 2017) he has also won the admiration of new generations.
In recent years Johnny Depp has worked with Gore Verbinski (‘The Lone Ranger’ / ‘The Lone Ranger’, 2013), Rob Marshall (‘Into The Woods’, 2014), Scott Cooper (‘Black Mass’, Perlak 2015) , Kenneth Branagh (‘Murder on the Orient Express’ / ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, 2017) or Andrew Levitas (‘Minamata’ / ‘The Minamata Photographer’, 2020).
Depp has played writers, police infiltrators or outlaws, “almost always misfits”, accompanied by co-stars such as Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis, Penálope Cruz, Helena Bonham Carter, Javier Bardem, Kate Winslet, Mark Rylance, Dustin Hoffman, Judi Dench, Antonio Banderas, John Malkovich, Marion Cotillard, Forrest Whitaker, Al Pacino, Benedict Cumberbatch, Morgan Freeman, Benicio del Toro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leonardo Di Caprio or Christopher Plummer, among many others.
Third visit to San Sebastián
This will be Johnny Depp’s third visit to the San Sebastian Festival after his fleeting passage in 1998 with Terry Gilliam and his return in 2020 for the participation of ‘Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (Crock of Gold: Bebiendo con Shane MacGowan)’.
Tickets for the award ceremony, which will take place before the out-of-competition screening of the Official Section film ‘La hija’, directed by Manuel Martin Cuenca and starring Javier Gutiérrez and Patricia López Arnaiz, will go on sale on Monday, September 13.
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