Hollywood star Nicole Kidman received the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the American Film Institute at the break of today, Sunday, April 28, 2024.
This is the first time that the prestigious award has gone to an actress or actor Australia.
Stars like Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Naomi Watts and Reese Witherspoon paid tribute to the award-winning 56-year-old Australian actress. Oscar.
The Institute has been presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award since 1973 to honor people whose work has influenced American cinema.
In addition to Streep and Freeman, previous honorees include Scottish actor Sean Connery, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, Dustin Hoffman, Steven Spielberg, Diane Keaton, George Clooney and Denzel Washington.
Kidman walked with her husband, Australian singer Keith Urban, and their daughters Sunday Rose (15 years old) and Faith Margaret (13 years old) on the red carpet in front of the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, where the Oscars are held. .
“Dear, I am very proud of you,” Orban wrote on the platform “X” (formerly Twitter), adding that the list of previous winners is long.
As for Kidman, she wrote on her Instagram account, “So touched by all the global support. ” She thanked the American Film Institute for inducting her into this “honorable group”.
For her part, the institute praised Kidman and described her as “a true icon of cinema” who embodies the magic of old Hollywood and is characterized by boldness in her choice of roles.
Kidman appeared in films such as “Dead Calm,” “Days of Thunder,” “To Die For,” and “Eyes Wide Shut.” “Moulin Rouge,” “Dogville,” and “Being the Ricardos.”
Kidman won the Academy Award for the best actress in 2003 for the film “The Hours,” in which she appeared with a large nose as a decoration of the character of the British writer Virginia Woolf.
