Spain’s Evolutional Mallorca International Film Festival will fete Annette Bening with its Icon Award at this year’s edition, which runs from October 30 to November 5.
The award will be presented at the festival’s opening ceremony on October 30. Bening will attend the ceremony. As part of the festivities, she will also introduce and discuss a special screening of Stephen Frear’s The Grifters, for which Bening received her first of five Academy Award nominations in 1990.
Bening’s previous honors include a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards. Some of her credits include Bugsy (1991) with husband Warren Beatty, American Beauty (1999), and Being Julia (2004), which won her the Golden Globe for Best Actress, with additional Oscar nominations to follow for her leading roles in The Kids Are All Right (2010) and most recently, as swimmer Diana Nyad in the Netflix biographical film.
On stage, Bening was last seen in Jack O’Brian’s Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s classic All My Sons, alongside Tracy Letts, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination. She has played leading roles to great acclaim in productions of King Lear, The Cherry Orchard, Hedda Gabler, and Medea.
“Annette Bening is an acting legend, the epitome of the Evolution ICON Award and we are thrilled that she’ll be coming to Palma, Mallorca this October to be honored for her rich body of work,” Festival Director Sandra Lipski said of today’s announcement.
“We look forward to giving her the warmest of receptions on the island, and for our festival attendees to feel inspired by Annette’s career and her relentless, restless talent.”
Now in its 13th year, Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival is one of the longest-running physical film festivals in Palma de Mallorca. The event was founded by filmmaker and Mallorca-raised Sandra Lipski.
