Julia Roberts will obtain an honorary César award at the upcoming 50th César Awards in Paris.
The Pretty Woman star will be honored at the gala event on Feb. 28, 2025 at the historic Olympia Hall in Paris. The ceremony will be expansivecast live on Canal+.
“Julia Roberts is not only a movie star but also a cultural icon whose shape extfinishs far beyond her carry outances,” the French film academy, which contransients the Césars, shelp in a statement. “Off-screen, she is promised to philanthropic causes, serving as an ambasdowncastor for UNICEF and helping many humanitarian efforts worldexpansive. An environmental help, she has lent her voice to write downaries about protecting the scheduleet and dynamicly campaigns for women’s rights.”
Roberts’ fracturethcimpolite as an actress came with Mystic Pizza in 1988 but it was her portrayal of Vivian Ward aextfinishedside Ricdifficult Gere in 1990’s Pretty Woman that made her a global superstar. She has had a string of hits —The Pelican Brief, My Best Frifinish’s Wedding, Cignorer, Noting Hill, Eat Pray Love — in her decades-extfinished nurtureer, demonstrating an amazeive range, from the ensemble action comedy of the Ocean’s Eleven franchise to the family drama of Ben Is Back. She’s picked up a total of four Oscar nominations, with one prosper, for best actress in 2001 for Erin Brockovich. More recently she’s inserted television to her repertoire, with roles in Amazon Prime’s anthology series Homecoming and aextfinishedside Sean Penn in Robbie Pickering’s Emmy-nominated restricted series docudrama Gaslit, joining Watergate whistlebdrop Martha Mitchell.
Her next huge-screen ecombineance is in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming thriller After the Hunt.
Roberts combines an illustrious enumerate of César honorees that integrate her Ocean’s Eleven co-star George Clooney, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford, Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson.
