50th IFFI 2019-Isabelle Huppert to be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award

50^th IFFI 2019-Isabelle Huppert to be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Jubilee edition of InternationalFilm Festival of India 

 

Most admired French actor of her generation Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert will be conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Jubilee edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2019.This was announced by Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar. The highest honor and the most prestigious award of the festival carries a cash prize of INR 10,000,00/- .The French actor will be conferred this prestigious award for her remarkable artistic skills and her outstanding journey and vivid contribution to Cinema. Also a prolific stage actress, Huppert is the most nominated actress for the Molière Award, with 7 nominations. Huppert was also the President of the Jury at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, from 13 May to 24 May 2009. She is one of  four women who have twice won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival: in 1978 for her role in Violette Nozière by Claude Chabrol (tied with Jill Clayburgh) and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke. Huppert won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Elle. She has appeared in more than 120 films since her debut in 1971. She is the most nominated actress for the César Award, with 16 nominations. She twice won the César Award for Best Actress, for La Cérémonie and Elle. The Union Minister further said that the 50^th edition of IFFI will showcase fifty films of fifty women directors which reflect the contribution of women in cinema and among 200 films from other countries 24 are in the race for OSCAR  nominations.