The Film Academy awards its 2023 International Goya to Juliette Binoche

The French actress Juliette Binoche will receive the International Goya on February 11 in Seville as an undisputed reference in European cinema and protagonist of outstanding international productions for four decades.

Distinguished with the Oscar, the César and the Bafta, the acting awards at the Cannes, Berlin and Venice festivals, and the Donostia Award at the San Sebastián Festival, among many others, Binoche is a reference in the industry.

In its second year of existence, this award established by Film Academy to recognize personalities who contribute to cinema as an art that unites cultures and spectators from all over the world, has fallen on the French actress "for her extraordinary career that places her as one of the most admired and recognized names in European and international cinema and her commitment to risky authors, reflected in a good number of unforgettable performances."

After Cate Blanchett, a figure of American cinema, the Film Academy recognizes a European actress, with a global dimension.

Bad blood, The unbearable lightness of being, The lovers of the Pont-Neuf, Wound, Three colors: Blue, The English patient, Unknown code, Chocolat, Cache, The flight of the red balloon, Certified copy, Cosmopolis, Camille Claudel 1915, The truth, Fire, On a dock in Normandy…The list of films that Juliette Binoche has played is long, and she has not accused the lack of powerful female roles in her maturity. Recognized as one of the best actresses in contemporary cinema, she has worked since her beginnings with great directors, including the Spanish Isabel Coixet, with whom she starred in Nobody wants the night, winner of four Goya Awards.

His second film, I greet you Maria, was under the orders of Jean-Luc Godard, a name to which he added those of the also French André Techiné (Appointment y Alice and Martin), Leos Carax, Louis Malle, Jean-Paul Rappeneau (The hussar on the roof), Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours and Double Lives), Bruno Dumont, Patrice Leconte (The life of Saint-Pierre), Emmanuel Carrère and Claire Denis (Fuego).

Philip Kaufman, Kieslowski, Anthony Minghella, Michael Haneke, Naomi Kawase, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Lasse Hallstrom, Kiarostami, Cronenberg, Koreeda and Isabel Coixet (Nobody wants the night, which earned her a Goya nomination) complete the list of filmmakers who have featured this daughter of performers who in 1996 made her debut in Anglo-Saxon cinema with The English Patient, a film with which she won the Oscar for best supporting actress. Since then he has worked with one foot in independent European cinema and the other in commercial productions such as Godzilla o Ghost in the Shell.

Trained at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, 'La Binoche', who was born in Paris in 1964, is always willing to embark on projects that are "a journey into the unknown, that reveal a new world to me" and it is "the director's ability to listen and, above all, to look" that drives her to say yes to the proposals she receives and that have earned her the César Prize, the Cannes Palm Silver Bear, the Volpi Cup, the Donostia Prize and three European Film Awards, among others.

The Parisian, who has also participated in the television series The Staircase and stepped onto Broadway with Betrayal, by Harold Pinter, will collect the International Goya in the year that marks the 40th anniversary of its first appearance on the big screen, in the title Liberty Belle, by Pascal Kané.