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Richard Gere of the United States will receive the Goya Award 2025 at next month’s Goya Awards.
Gere and his Spanish wife Alejandra moved to Madrid recently. Gere has been in many box office successes, including Chicago and Pretty Woman. His most recent film release is Oh Canada, a story about an American draft dodger.
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The International Goya Award was first presented in 2022. Cate Blanchett won the award, followed by Juliette Binoche.
The Goyas will take place on the 8th of February at the Palacio de Congresos de Granada.
The International Goya Award was created in order to honour personalities who make a contribution to cinema as a form of art that brings cultures together and unites audiences from all over the world.
The Goya jury said it has been awarded to Richard Gere for ‘his extraordinary contribution to cinematographic art, starring in some of the most iconic films in the history of cinema, and his social commitment developed over decades’.
Gere’s other movies include Days of Heaven and An Officer and Gentleman. He has also appeared in American Gigolo and The Cotton Club.
In the year of his 50th film debut, he will be awarded the International Goya.
In the early 1980s, Gere founded the Gere Foundation in order to channel the intense activism he had been pursuing for Tibet’s freedom and the preservation of Tibetan cultural heritage as advocated by the Dalai Lama.
Gere is a practicing Buddhist and has supported the rights for indigenous peoples, refugee and homeless since his 20th birthday.
Sierra a Mar is a Mexican project that is a part of his foundation.
