The Academy recognizes Sigourney Weaver with the 2024 International Goya

After Cate Blanchett and Juliette Binoche received it, the American actress and producer Sigourney Weaver will collect the 2024 International Goya this Saturday in Valladolid for, in the opinion of the Film Academy, “her impressive career full of unforgettable films and inspiring us by creating independent, complex and strong female characters.”

Three-time Oscar-nominated, BAFTA- and Golden Globe-winning actress Sigourney Weaver has created an array of unforgettable characters in both comedy and drama, ranging from Lieutenant Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the fog. Over the years, she has captivated audiences and earned their admiration as one of the most beloved performers on stage and screen worldwide.

Weaver's eclectic work is a reflection of his versatility, charisma and indisputable talent as an actress. His career includes blockbusters as Avatar, Ghostbusters o Alien; highly sensitive dramas such as The Good House, Dreams of a writer in New York, We are all Jane, The year we lived dangerously, My map of the world y The ice storm, for which he won the BAFTA; exciting stories like The Master Gardener, The Forest, Death and the Maiden y Copycat; and comedies in which he has shown his comic vision as Heroes out of orbit, The seductresses, The curse of the holes o women's weapons, for which she won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress at the same gala in which she won the award for Best Leading Actress for Gorillas in the Fog.

His work extends beyond the big screen, with television series critically acclaimed as Prayers for Bobby, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Call My Agent! y Political Animals.

Weaver (New York, 1949), who studied at Stanford and Yale universities and received the 2016 Donostia Prize from the San Sebastián Festival, will be awarded the third International Goya in history. Created to recognize personalities who contribute to cinema as an art that unites cultures and viewers from around the world, it is awarded for “their impressive career full of unforgettable films and inspiring us by creating complex and strong female characters.”

She debuted with a small role in Woody Allen's Annie Hall, Ridley Scott made her a symbol of science fiction cinema and with the help of James Cameron she participated in the highest-grossing film in the history of cinema. He has also stepped in front of the camera for Peter Weir, Mike Nichols, Roman Polanski, Ang Lee, David Fincher, Ivan Reitman, M. Night Shyamalan and J.A. Bayona, with whom he filmed A monster comes to see me, a work for which she was nominated for the Goya for Best Supporting Actress and her second foray into Spanish cinema, in which she debuted with red lights, by Rodrigo Cortés, alongside Robert de Niro and Cillian Murphy.