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 contribution to cinema.
The 91-year-old screen legend will be honored at a “Women in Creativity” event and gala dinner in Venice on September 4 at the Blue Pavilion of the Palazzina Grassi hotel on the Grand Canal. Burstyn will also participate in an onstage discussion about her decades-long career.
Burstyn made her Broadway acting debut in Fair play in 1957 and was a regular on television throughout the 1960s, but her breakthrough came on screen in the 1970s, with Oscar-nominated performances in Peter Bogdanovich’s film The last movie screening (1971) and William Friedkin The Exorcist (1973), before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as widow Alice Hyatt in Martin Scorsese’s romantic drama Alice doesn’t live here anymore in 1974. A year later, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress for Same time next yearShe reprised the same role in Robert Mulligan’s film adaptation, earning her her fourth Oscar nomination of the 1970s. Two more would follow with Daniel Petrie’s Resurrection (1980) and Darren Aronofsky Requiem for a Dream (2000).
On the small screen, Burstyn has received eight Emmy Award nominations, winning twice: in 2009 for a guest actress role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unitand in 2013 for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her role as Margaret Barrish in Greg Berlanti’s film Political animals.
The Venice event is organized by Liberatum, Pablo Ganguli’s “cultural diplomacy” organization, and co-organized by arts patron Aaron Roni Neumark. Last year in Venice, Liberatum honored Black Panther star Angela Bassett and Brazilian anthropologist and activist Ivete Sacramento.
The 81st Venice Film Festival will take place from August 28 to September 7.
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