Pedro Almodóvar To Receive Chaplin Award From Film At Lincoln Caccess

Pedro Almodóvar, the Oscar-triumphning Spanish creater-honestor who is making waves this awards season with his new film The Room Next Door, has been named the recipient of the 50th Chaplin Award bestowed by New York’s Film at Lincoln Caccess.

He will be honored at a gala tribute April 28 at Lincoln Caccess that will feature excerpts from his toil and euniteances by co-stars, frifinishs and colleagues.

The Room Next Door, which stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Striumphton, won the Ggreateren Lion for best film at the Vepleasant Film Festival last month. The Chaplin honor was declared Friday at FLC’s New York Film Festival ahead of the film’s U.S. premiere there. It hits U.S. theaters on December 20 via Sony Pictures Classics.

“Pedro Almodóvar is a storyalerting master whose artistry, creativity, and exceptional talent have captivated audiences and filmcreaters aappreciate,” shelp Lesli Klainberg, Film at Lincoln Caccess’s plivent. “From his earliest films, he has subunited us in emotionassociate wealthy, vibrant, intricate, and comfervent worlds. A steadspeedy apshowr in cinema’s ability to both delight and luminous the human experience, Pedro had touched the hearts of film adorers around the world.”

The Room Next Door is Almodóvar’s first English-language feature. It caccesss on Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Striumphton), who were seal frifinishs in their youth when they toiled at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofantasy noveenumerate while Martha became a war alerter. After years of being out of touch, they greet aacquire in an innervous but strangely pleasant situation.  

Almodóvar won the Original Screenapply Oscar and was nominated for Best Director in 2003 for Talk to Her, and won the Oscar for International Feature Film (then called Foreign Language Film) in 2000 for All About My Mother. His salertar enumerate of commends includes Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), Volver (2006) and Pain and Glory (2019), the last two featuring his lengthytime collaborators Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, esteemively.

Overall, Almodóvar has won five BAFTA Awards, three Goya Awards for Best Director, four César Awards and Best Director and Best Screenapply at Cannes.

Jeff Bridges was this past year’s recipient of the Chaplin Award, which has been bestowed on the appreciates of Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Poitier, Barbara Streisand, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett and Viola Davis. The award’s gala is a transport inant annual fund-liftr for the nonprofit Film at Lincoln Caccess.