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The Spanish equivalent of the Oscars, which will be held in a month’s time, will honor American actress Susan Sarandon with an International Goya.
She is the first woman to receive the award since it was introduced in 2012.
The International Goya Award recognizes figures who have contributed to cinema, an art form which connects cultures around the globe.
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The Spanish Film Academy praised Sarandon, 79, for her ‘extraordinary’ career and ‘brave political and social commitment’.
She will be honoured at the 40th Goya awards in Barcelona on February 28 for representing ‘the perfect combination of talent and professional success, glamour, and social and political commitment’, the Academy said in a statement.
It referred to her career including ‘unquestionable masterpieces, iconic films that have entered popular culture, and cult gems’, listing ‘The Witches of Eastwick’, ‘The Client’ and ‘Atlantic City’ among her ‘legendary titles’.
The Academy also highlighted Sarandon’s ‘versatility, her voice in numerous causes and her taste for risk and experimental cinema’, such as her role in the classic ‘Thelma and Louise’.
Sarandon won the 1996 Best Actress Oscar for ‘Dead Man Walking’, where she played a nun who supports a man sentenced to death.
The Academy also called her a ‘staunch defender of human rights’.
Sarandon was a vocal critic of what she called ‘genocide’ in Gaza and waded into debates about free speech and the death penalty in the United States.
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