Antonio Banderas Set for Award at Torino Film Festival

Antonio Banderas will probably be honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Torino Film Festival in Turin, Italy, the place the Oscar-nominated actor will current a particular screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s semi-autobiographical 2019 drama “Pain and Glory.”

Banderas will obtain Torino’s Stella della Mole Award on Nov. 29 during the opening ceremony of the Italian event devoted to indie cinema. As beforehand announced, the fest is ready to kick off with David Freyne’s afterlife rom-com “Eternity.”

In Turin, Banderas will subsequently current a particular screening of “Pain and Glory” through which he stars as Almodóvar’s alter-ego of kinds playing a director reflecting on his life and profession. “Pain and Glory” earned Banderas the best actor award at Cannes Film Festival in addition to Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations.

Torino is celebrating Banderas for his longstanding collaboration with Almodóvar, which also contains “Labyrinth of Passion” (1982), “Matador” (1986), “Law of Desire” (1987) and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (1988), in addition to for his roles in Hollywood titles such as “Philadelphia” (1993), “Interview With the Vampire” (1994) and “Evita” (1996) and more latest movies “Official Competition” (2021) and “Babygirl” (2024).

“Antonio Banderas, shaped by Almodóvar’s creative vision, has been able to conquer Hollywood and embody the image of a complete actor,” said Torino Film Festival inventive director Giulio Base. He went on to name Banderas “a performer of dizzying depth and, at the same time, a global sex symbol of his generation.”

Banderas will next be seen in A24’s Anthony Bourdain biopic “Tony” and in Trudie Styler’s “Rose Baby.”

Torino’s forty third version is being held Nov. 21-29 in the Northern Italian metropolis of Turin.