Johnny Depp will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Sebastian Film Festival.
In a statement on its websiteThe film festival based in the Basque resort town praised Depp as “one of the most talented and versatile actors in contemporary film” and announced that he will receive the Donostia Award on September 22. Past winners Including Vigo Mortensen, Penelope Cruz and Judy Dench.
In its enthusiastic website quotation, the festival did not mention the scandal that is currently sweeping Depp’s career, followed closely by Actor’s loss in a defamation case To the publisher of The Sun, the High Court concluded that he repeatedly assaulted his ex-wife Aimee Bershid.Actor’s latest movies, Japanese dramas Minamata, Not yet released in the U.S., Leading its director Andrew Levitas to claim that Hollywood studio MGM wanted to “bury” Movie.Depp also had Asked to resign from Gellert Grindelwald In the third “Where are the Fantastic Beasts” movie, it was replaced by Mads Mickelson.
In an earlier performance of contempt for the American evasive film industry figures, San Sebastian chose to allow Woody Allen’s latest film, Rifkin Festival, Will be shot at the film festival, and then selected as the opening event for the 2020 edition. Prior to this, Allen had a legal dispute with his former supporter Amazon, claiming that Allen had “destroyed” the marketability of early films through his sexual abuse charges against his daughter Dylan Farrow and comments on the #MeToo movement.The dispute is Court settlement.
The Guardian has contacted the San Sebastian Film Festival for comments.
