Actress Naomi Watts will be honored at the Zurich Film Festival with the Golden Eye Award for her performance in Ben Shirinian’s The Housewife, in which she portrays the enigmatic wife of a suspected Nazi.
“It is such an honor to be presented with the Golden Eye Award from Zurich Film Festival. I cannot wait to be there, accepting this award among such great company, and I thank the film festival for honoring my role in this film,” says Naomi Watts.
Naomi Watts achieved her international breakthrough in 2001 with David Lynch’s mystery drama Mulholland Drive, for which she won multiple critics’ awards. Since then, she has moved effortlessly between intimate independent productions and major Hollywood successes.
Besides David Lynch, she has collaborated with directors including David Cronenberg, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Peter Jackson, consistently demonstrating a remarkable instinct for portraying women grappling with societal expectations.
In The Housewife, she plays an elegant and inscrutable woman living in 1960s New York whose flawless façade gradually begins to crack when a young journalist from The New York Times uncovers clues about her husband’s dark past. Also starring in the film are Tye Sheridan, Michael Imperioli, Luke Evans, Lena Olin, and Debi Mazar.
“Since her breakthrough in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts has been one of the most fascinating actresses of our time. Her greatest performances thrive on the tension between glamour and darkness, between what a character reveals and what she conceals – making her the kind of character actress Hitchcock would have loved. In The Housewife, she masters this ambiguity as an elegant and mysterious woman. At the same time, the film tells a true story that powerfully illustrates how indispensable investigative journalism is in uncovering historical crimes. Naomi Watts delivers one of the most compelling performances of her career, and we are proud to honor her with the Golden Eye Award,” says Christian Jungen, CEO of the Zurich Film Festival.
Previous recipients of the award include Jude Law, Kristen Stewart, Dakota Johnson, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
The 22nd edition of Zurich Film Festival will take place from September 24 to October 4, 2026, and Watts will personally accept the award on September 26 and offer insights into her career during a ZFF Masters session.
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