Published on
15/07/2026 - 12:49 GMT+2
Legendary American actress Ellen Burstyn, best known for her roles in The Last Picture Show, The Exorcist, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Requiem For A Dream, will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
The festival’s artistic director Alberto Barbera described Burstyn as “an actress of rare intensity and truth,” adding that she had brought “depth and complexity to unforgettable female characters embodying the contradictions and transformations in the contemporary woman.”
Barbera continued: “Revealed in Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘The Last Picture Show,’ which portrayed the twilight of small-town America, and elevated to global stardom by the success of William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist,’ Burstyn won the Oscar for best actress for Martin Scorsese’s ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,’ the film manifesto about women reclaiming their identity and their freedom.”
