Ellen Burstyn Receives Liberatum Pioneer Award in Venice

Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn Receives Liberatum Pioneer Award in Venice Film Festival 2024  with the Liberatum Pioneer Award for her lifetime contribution to cinema.

The 91-year-old acting legend will be honored at a Women in Creativity event and gala dinner in Venice on Sept. 4 in the Blue Suite of the Palazzina Grassi hotel on the Grand Canal. Burstyn will also participate in an on-stage discussion about her decades-long career.

Burstein made her acting debut on Broadway in fair game In 1957, she was a television star throughout the 1960s, but her breakthrough came on screen in the 1970s, with her Oscar-nominated performances in Peter Bogdanovich’s Latest photo show (1971), William Friedkin 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 her role in At the same time, next yearShe reprised the role in Robert Mulligan’s film adaptation, earning her fourth Academy Award nomination of the 1970s. Two more nominations followed with Daniel Petrie’s film Resurrection (1980) Darren Aronofsky Mass for a Dream (2000).

On the small screen, Burstyn has received eight Emmy nominations, winning twice: in 2009 for her guest actress role in Law & Order: Special Victims UnitIn 2013, she won Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role as Margaret Parrish in Greg Berlanti’s film. Political Animals.

The Venice event is organized by Pablo Ganguli’s cultural diplomacy organization Liberatum and co-hosted by arts patron Aaron Rooney Newmark. Last year in Venice, Liberatum honored Black Panther Star Angela Bassett and Brazilian anthropologist and activist Yvette Sacramento.

The 81st Venice Film Festival will take place from August 28 to September 7.