Sigourney Weaver to receive Donostia Award of San Sebastian Festival

Sigourney Weaver will receive the 2016 Donostia Award for career achievement at the 64th San Sebastian Festival, the Festival announced through a press release on Tuesday.

Weaver will receive a Donostia Award on Sept. 21 and the latest movie by Juan Antonio Bayona, A Monster Calls, where she stars, will premier in Europe at the Festival participating out of competition.

The film is based on the novel, selected as the best young-adult book in Britain, of the same name by Patrick Ness, who is also the screenwriter. Along with Weaver, the cast includes Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall and Liam Neeson.

The Festival emphasized the important career of Weaver, "whose name has presided over some of the biggest productions in the last few decades, under the direction of moviemakers such as Ridley Scott, Peter Weir, James Cameron, Mike Nichols, Roman Polanski, Ang Lee and David Fincher".

She broke through in Ridley Scott's Alien in 1979 but she had already worked in cinema in Woody Allen's Annie Hall two years before. She participated in Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992) and Alien Resurrection (1997) and won two golden globes, for Gorillas in the Mist and Working girl.

Weaver has already been to the Festival in 1979 and 1999 presenting Alien and A Map Of the World respectively.

The Donostia Award was launched in 1986 and was given to different figures of Hollywood and European cinema such as Al Pacino or Robert de Niro. The Festival will be held between Sept. 18 and 26 in Spain's northern city of San Sebastian. Endit