Francis Ford Coppola awarded the Prize of Princess … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The American director Francis Ford Coppola (n. Detroit, 1939) was awarded Wednesday in Oviedo, Spain, with the Princess of Asturias Award of Arts.

                     

                         The jury of the 35th edition of this award, chaired by businessman and politician José Fernández-Urrutia Lladóy justifies the award of the prize to the director of Apocalypse Now considering it “an exceptional narrator,” occupying “a place prominent in the history of cinema. “

The minutes of the jury adds that Coppola’s career” has been an ongoing struggle to keep the overall entrepreneurial and creative independence in all aspects developed as a director, producer and screenwriter ” .

The acclaimed author of the series The Godfather – a summit figure of so-called movie brats , the generation that reinvented the American cinema in the 1970s – has performed more than three dozen films, almost as many wrote and produced more than seven dozen, most of them with the seal of his American Zoetrope, who founded in 1969

“The Francis Ford figure. Coppola is essential to realize the transformation and contradictions of industry and film art, to whose growth he contributed decisively “, the jury remains, which still ranks the author of Heart Fund as a” reformer thematic and formal “, whose films have explored the nature of power and” the horrors and the absurdity of war, “making it” collective and universal icons of the imaginary and the contemporary culture. “

The Prize of Princess Asturias Arts – the first in a series of eight, the Princess of Asturias Foundation gives every year around this time – is intended, moreover, to distinguish “the scientific work, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian done by people, institutions, groups of persons or institutions internationally. “

The application Coppola was presented by a member of the jury, Fernando Rodriguez Lafuente, teacher, film critic and literature, who directed the cultural supplement of the Spanish newspaper ABC .

At this year’s Arts Award were submitted 31 applications from various countries.

Launched in 1981 with headquarters in Oviedo, the Princess of Asturias Award of Arts has distinguished other figures of world cinema, from the Spanish filmmakers Luis Garcia Berlanga and Pedro Almodóvar, and the actor of the same nationality Fernando Fernan-Gomez, to Woody Allen and Michael Haneke. The last awarded in 2014, was the American architect Frank O. Gehry.

The prize consists of a sculpture by Joan Miró and a sum of 50,000 euros, plus a diploma and insignia, which will be delivered to the winners in the autumn, at a ceremony presided always by the kings of Spain.