Legendary Hollywood actress Kim Novak (Vertigo, Picnic, Bell, Ebook and Candle) can be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on the 82nd Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant of La Biennale di Venezia (Aug. 27–Sept. 6).
Venice additionally unveiled that the documentary Kim Novak’s Vertigo by Alexandre Philippe, “made in unique collaboration with the actress,” can be offered in its world premiere through the competition.
The choice concerning the honor was made by the board of administrators of La Biennale, based mostly on the advice of the inventive director of the competition, Alberto Barbera, organizers mentioned Monday.
“I’m deeply, deeply touched to obtain the distinguished Golden Lion Award from such an enormously revered movie competition,” mentioned Novak. “To be acknowledged for my physique of labor right now in my life is a dream come true. I’ll treasure each second I spend in Venice. It should fill my coronary heart with pleasure.”
Stated Venice inventive director Barbera: “Inadvertently changing into a display legend, Kim Novak was one of the beloved icons of a complete period of Hollywood movies, from her auspicious debut through the mid-Nineteen Fifties till her untimely and voluntary exile from the gilded cage of Los Angeles a short time later. She by no means shunned criticizing the studio system, selecting her roles, who she let into her personal life and even her identify. Pressured to resign her given identify, Marilyn Pauline, as a result of it was related to Monroe, she fought to preserve her final identify, agreeing, in trade, to dye her hair that shade of platinum blonde which set her aside. Unbiased and nonconformist, she created her personal manufacturing firm and went on strike to renegotiate a wage that was a lot decrease than that of her male co-stars.”
Barbera continued: “Due to her exuberant magnificence, her capacity to convey to life characters who had been naïve and discreet, in addition to sensuous and tormented, and her seductive and generally sorrowful gaze, she was appreciated by a few of the main American administrators of the interval, from Billy Wilder (Kiss Me, Silly), to Otto Preminger (The Man With the Golden Arm), Robert Aldrich (The Legend of Lylah Clare), George Sidney (The Eddy Duchin Story, Jeanne Eagels, Pal Joey), and Richard Quine, with whom she made unforgettable romantic comedies (Pushover, Bell, Ebook and Candle, Strangers When We Meet, The Infamous Landlady). However her picture will stay perpetually linked to the twin characters she performed in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, which grew to become the position of her life. This Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement celebrates a star who was emancipated, a insurgent on the coronary heart of Hollywood who illuminated the desires of film lovers earlier than retiring to her ranch in Oregon to dedicate herself to portray and to her horses.”