Nicole Kidman To Be Lauded With 49th AFI Life Achievement Award
23.11.2022 - 02:31
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The American Film Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees will bestow his 49th AFI Life Achievement Award on Oscar winner Nicole Kidman at their June 10, 2023 ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Kidman is the first Australian actor to receive this honor.
“Nicole Kidman has enchanted audiences for decades with the daring of her artistry and the glamour of a screen icon,” said Kathleen Kennedy, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. “She is a force both brave in her choices and bold in each performance. AFI is honored to present her with the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award.”
Kidman’s cinematic canon has spanned work with such filmmakers as Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Baz Luhrmann, Aaron Sorkin, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Lars von Trier and Stanley Kubrick.
She was nominated five times at the Oscars –4x for Leading Actress for Moulin Rouge!, The Hours, Rabbit Hole and this year’s Being the Ricardos for her portrayal as Lucille Ball and once in Supporting Actress for Lion. She won Best Actress in 2003 for Stephen Daldry’s The Hours playing the role of Virginia Woolf.
She breakthrough in Phillip Noyce’s 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Throughout her career, Kidman has won a BAFTA Award, two Emmys–for Lead Actress Limited Series and Outstanding Limited Series for HBO’s Big Little Lies, and six Golden Globes. She co-founded her production company Blossom Films in 2010.
She starred this year in Robert Eggers’ viking epic The Northman from Focus Features. Her top grossing features include Aquaman (the highest grossing DC movie ever at $1.1 billion WW; the sequel of which, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom comes out Christmas 2023), Happy Feet ($384M), The Golden Compass ($372M), Batman Forever ($337M), and Paddington ($272M).
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