The American Movie Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees will bestow his forty ninth AFI Life Achievement Award on Oscar winner Nicole Kidman at their June 10, 2023 ceremony on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Kidman is the primary Australian actor to obtain this honor.
“Nicole Kidman has enchanted audiences for many years with the daring of her artistry and the glamour of a display icon,” mentioned Kathleen Kennedy, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. “She is a drive each courageous in her decisions and daring in every efficiency. AFI is honored to current her with the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award.”
Kidman’s cinematic canon has spanned work with such filmmakers as Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Baz Luhrmann, Aaron Sorkin, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Lars von Trier and Stanley Kubrick.
She was nominated 5 instances on the Oscars –4x for Main Actress for Moulin Rouge!, The Hours, Rabbit Gap and this 12 months’s Being the Ricardos for her portrayal as Lucille Ball and as soon as in Supporting Actress for Lion. She gained Greatest Actress in 2003 for Stephen Daldry’s The Hours taking part in the position of Virginia Woolf.
Her breakthrough position got here in Phillip Noyce’s 1989 thriller Useless Calm. All through her profession, Kidman has gained a BAFTA Award, two Emmys–for Lead Actress Restricted Collection and Excellent Restricted Collection for HBO’s Massive Little Lies, and 6 Golden Globes. She co-founded her manufacturing firm Blossom Movies in 2010.
She starred this 12 months in Robert Eggers’ viking epic The Northman from Focus Options. Her high grossing options embody Aquaman (the best grossing DC film ever at $1.1 billion WW; the sequel of which, Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom comes out Christmas 2023), Completely happy Toes ($384M), The Golden Compass ($372M), Batman Endlessly ($337M), and Paddington ($272M).
In theater, Kidman made a highly-lauded London stage debut within the fall of 1998, starring with Iain Glen in The Blue Room, David Hare’s trendy adaptation of Schnitzler’s La Ronde. For her efficiency, Kidman gained London’s Night Normal Award and was nominated within the Greatest Actress class for a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2015, Kidman was seen on the West Finish stage in Anna Ziegler’s {Photograph} 51, for which she obtained a London Night Normal Award.
In January of 2006, Kidman was awarded Australia’s highest honor, the Companion within the Order of Australia. She was additionally awarded the Berlin Movie Pageant’s Silver Bear award for her efficiency in The Hours. In 2017, the Cannes Movie Pageant honored Kidman with the 70th Anniversary Prize for her physique of labor and longstanding historical past with the competition. She is one among solely eight folks to ever obtain this honor.
Kidman has served as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Girls for practically 20 years. Alongside together with her husband, Keith City, she has helped elevate thousands and thousands through the years for the Stanford Girls’s Most cancers Program which is a world-renowned middle for analysis into the causes, remedy, prevention, and eventual remedy of ladies’s most cancers.
Kidman’s many upcoming initiatives embody Lulu Wang’s Expats for Amazon, Lioness for Paramount+, and Holland, Michigan for Amazon.
