Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams and Sebastian Stan to receive awards at Deauville Festival

The two actresses will be awarded the Deauville Talent Award while the actor will receive the New Hollywood Prize.

The Deauville American Film Festival will welcome stars straight from Hollywood for its 50th edition. While last year it was due to present May Decemberalongside Julianne Moore, and receiving an award, Natalie Portman canceled her appearance in support of the Hollywood strike. But it was only postponed. A year later, the actress revealed in Leonwhere she plays opposite Jean Reno at the age of thirteen, returns to the coast to receive the Deauville Talent Award – just like Michelle Williams.

“Natalie Portman has always taken on demanding roles to shape a multifaceted and committed career. She has proven throughout her career that she can embody all kinds of characters with depth and accuracy.”

This is how the Deauville Festival presents the Oscar-winning actress. Known for having played the role of Padmé in the prequel Star Wars In 1999, she also appeared under Tim Burton's camera in Mars Attack. She will also be able to greet the director at the preview screening of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Adored in Black Swann by Darren Aronofsky who propelled her to the top, she became the wife of American President JFK in Jackiea portrait of the first lady through the eyes of Pablo Larrain.

On the other hand, Oscar-nominated and multiple Golden Globe-winning Michelle Williams took her first steps on television before landing several film roles in the 90s: from horror with Halloween 20 yearsto the comedy with But I'm a Cheerleader. But it is with The Secret of Brokeback Mountain that the public cheers her. She gets her first Oscar nomination as best supporting actress. Next comes Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese, My Week with Marilyn where she plays the famous actress, Manchester by the seathe musical The Greatest Showmanand lately The Fabelmans by Steven Spielberg.

“Since the end of the 1990s, Michelle Williams has moved us with her unique sensitivity and her multi-nuanced acting,” sums up the Deauville Festival.

On one side, an actress from a galaxy far, far away, Daisy Ridley, and on the other a superhero turned supervillain before becoming a superhero from the MCU again, Sebastian Stanwill be rewarded this year with the New Hollywood Prize, awarded to the faces of tomorrow's cinema.

Known to the general public as Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier in the Marvel universe, the actor has also distinguished himself in other registers in recent years. His role as a toxic husband in Me, Tonya with Margot Robbie earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. This year he was even in Cannes for The Apprentice by Ali Abbasi where he plays Donald Trump in his early years of rise and conquest in New York.

Sebastian Stan will not only be on stage, as he is also starring in Aaron Schimberg's latest film, A Different Man, previewed in Deauville. The story follows Edward, a man suffering from terrible facial deformities who one day decides to go under the knife to change his appearance. He is completely transformed… just like the actor who went through the makeup and prosthetics stage to play this character.

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Just like this film, the following will be presented in preview: Lee Miller with Kate Winslet, The Wild Robotthe latest production from Dreamworks Studios, Speak No Evil with James McAvoy, and two films from the Cannes selection: Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola, as well as the Palme d'Or, Anora by Sean Baker.

For its fiftieth edition, the Deauville Festival will welcome Michael Douglas as guest of honor. And James Gray will be present for a masterclass and a conversation. In terms of competition, the jury chaired by Benoît Magimel will have to deliberate between fourteen films. This year, the Festival will be held from September 6 to 15.

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