Richard Gere, who a few months ago set his residence in Madrid, will receive the Goya International 2025 at the ceremony for the delivery of the Spanish Film Academy awards, which will be held in Granada on February 8, as reported on Thursday The institution. In the note, the Academy underlines its “extraordinary contribution to cinematographic art, starring some of the most iconic films in the history of cinema.” As an example, it highlights titles such as Days of heaven, Officer and gentleman, American Gigolo, The Cotton Club, Pretty Woman and the musical Chicagofor which he won the Golden Globe. He is also rewarded for “the social commitment, personally manifested and professional, developed for decades,” says the organizing entity of the Goya.
Worldly known, the American actor and producer will be distinguished with the fourth International Goya From the history of the awards, after Cate Blanchett, Juliette Binoche and Sigourney Weaver. The prize was created to recognize personalities that contribute to cinema as art that union cultures and spectators and spectators from the entire planet. In the statement, the academy emphasizes its “undoubted physical attractiveness”, which has shown for five decades on the big screen. In fact, Gere will collect this international Goya in the year in which the 50th anniversary of his debut on the big screen is fulfilled.
Gere was born in Philadelphia 75 years ago and grew in a small city in the upper part of the state of New York. He started as a musician – it has several instruments – before devoting himself to acting. Julia Roberts (with whom she rolled Pretty Woman y Girlfriend to escape), Kim basses (Dirty matters y Final analysis), Jodie Foster (Summer town), Winona Ryder (Autumn in New York), Susan Sarandon (Do we dance? y Fraud), Diane Keaton (Looking for Mr. Goodba), Diane Lane (The Cotton Club, Infiel y Storm nights) y a thurman (Final analysis And the recently released Oh, Canada) They have been some of Gere’s co -star, which in 2007 received the Donostia award of the San Sebastián Festival.
More than 30 years ago he founded the Gere Foundation to channel its intense activism in favor of the autonomy of Tibet and the preservation of the Tibetan culture raised by the Dalai Lama – it is necessary Rights of indigenous peoples, refugees and homeless. The actor is also a strong defender of environmental protection already through its foundation supports an ambitious natural conservation project, Sierra A Mar, in Mexico.