Penelope Cruz has been awarded this Monday with the Countrywide Movie Award, corresponding to the 12 months 2022, at the proposal of the assembled jury, as claimed by the Ministry of Culture and Athletics, which yearly awards the award.

The jury of the prize, endowed with 30,000 euros, has unanimously awarded the award to the actress “for the successes reached in 2021, which join all individuals collected in an remarkable career“.

Final year she turned the initial Spanish actress to get the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Competition. And her fourth nomination for her Oscar awards elevates her as “the most nominated Spanish actress in history.”

In addition, the jury has indicated that these prizes are additional to many others that “they have now regarded his talent“as the award for most effective feminine effectiveness in Cannes, alongside with her co-stars from ‘Volver’, the Oscar for most effective supporting actress, the honorary Cesar, the Donostia Award in San Sebastián, and the thirteen Goya nominations, of which he has won a few.

Also, the jury has highlighted Penélope Cruz as “one of the seen heads of a generation, that of the 90s, which led to a renewal of Spanish cinema, collaborating in many of the emblematic and internationally acclaimed films”.

“Considering that then, his monumental talent and versatility have opened the doorways for him to collaborate with filmmakers from all above the earth when also keeping a company hyperlink with Spanish cinema”, the jury pointed out, highlighting the actress’s commitment “to her job”.

For the jury, the lookup for “excellence” in her function has led Penélope Cruz to create some of the “most unforgettable people in the history” of Spanish cinema. “For all these good reasons, Penélope Cruz is an iconic actress whose good legacy enriches the Spanish cultural heritage“, additional the jury in inspiration.

The National Cinematography Award benefits the most outstanding contribution in the Spanish cinematographic area, ideally evidenced by way of a do the job produced general public or a specialist work carried out in the course of the yr 2021, or, in excellent conditions duly inspired, it is granted as recognition to a vocation route.

The award, which the Minister of Society and Athletics ordinarily awards in the framework of the San Sebastian Competition, recognized José Sacristán in its previous edition, signing up for a long checklist of personalities from Spanish cinematography, which include Isabel Coixet, Antonio Banderas or Fernando Trueba, amongst others.

The jury was chaired by Beatriz Navas Valdés, standard director of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), and Elisa Rodríguez Ortiz, deputy normal director of Advertising and International Relations of the ICAA, acted as vice president.

As vocals have acted Virginia Yagüe Romo, at the proposal of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain Olatz Arroyo Abaroa, at the proposal of Literary Authors of Audiovisual Media María Aranzazu Aranguren Ilarregui, at the proposal of the Union of Actors and Actresses Almudena Carracedo Verde, at the proposal of the Affiliation of Ladies Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) and María José Blanes Martínez, Gonzalo de Pedro Amatria and Francisco Javier Calvo Guirao, at the proposal of the ICAA.