Cannes Film Festival delegates attending a dinner hosted by luxury goods firm Kering kept their eye on the ball during one of the annual bash’s most memorable editions to date. The late-eveni…
who normally presents the award herself during the ceremony , was given the 2020 Women in Motion Award by festival president Pierre Lescure and artistic director Thierry Fremaux, who said they personally selected Hayek for the prize.
“I would not be able to tell you whether she was born an artist or activist first,” added Fremaux. “She is an artist A stunned Hayek accepted the award, noting that she didn’t have a speech and also suffered from stage fright. “Are you upset?” inquired Fremaux.Noting that she came from a generation where you had to choose between rejecting your looks to get ahead, and being attractive and not going anywhere, Hayek said: “You had to look really beautiful or try to look really bad. Hide the boobs.
“But I think we’re entering a world — and I know it’s messy right now — where we can start pushing the limits of what art is. Art is pushing our connections to new places where we wouldn’t have seen ourselves,” added Hayek. Previous recipients of the Women in Motion Award including French actor Isabelle Huppert, Americans Jane Fonda, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon. Elsewhere, the Women in Motion Young Talent Award was given to “Maternal” director Maura Delpero.
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