Actor Javier Bardem will receive a Donostia Award at the 71st edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The actor is also featured on the official poster of the festival.

The award ceremony will take place during the opening gala of the 71st edition, on Friday 22 September at the Kursaal Auditorium, thirty years after Bardem’s first visit to the Festival for the Official Selection screening of Golden Balls (Huevos de oro / Bigas Luna) in 1993.

Javier Bardem has won garnered more than a hundred awards, including an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for No Country for Old Men (2007), the Goyas for his work in Numbered Days (Días Contados) (1994), Mouth to Mouth (Boca a boca) (1995), Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol) (2002), The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) (2004), Biutiful (2010) and The Good Boss (El buen patrón) (2021), and for best documentary as the producer of Sons of the Clouds, the Last Colony (Hijos de las nubes, la última colonia) (2012). He also boasts accolades from the European Film Academy, the Platino Awards and the leading festivals: Best Actor at Cannes (Biutiful, 2010), the Volpi Cup in Venice (Before Night Falls, 2000 and The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) 2004 and San Sebastian’s Silver Shell for The Detective and Death (Días Contados and El detective y la muerte ) in 1994.

Javier Bardem is the sixth Spanish actor to receive the Festival’s most important honorary accolade, following Fernando Fernán Gómez (1999), Paco Rabal (2001), Antonio Banderas (2008), Carmen Maura (2013) and Penélope Cruz (2019).