Director Isabel Coixet was awarded the European Achievement in World Cinema award, given by the European Film Academy to “pay tribute to and recognize her career”. “An impressive contribution to the world of cinema.”
The director, who recently released his last feature film ‘Un amor’, thus became the first Spanish director to receive the award, which was also received by Isabelle Huppert, Juliete Binoche, Lars Von Trier or Roman Polanski, among others. Spaniard Antonio Banderas in 1999, Victoria Abril in 2002 and Pedro Almodóvar in 2013.
Born in Barcelona, his first feature film was ‘Too Old to Die Young’ (1989), It earned him his first nomination for Best Director Revelation at the Goya awards. He went to the United States in 1996 and shot the film ‘Things I Never Told You’, which premiered at the Berlinale.
In 2000, she founded Miss Wasabi Films, a producer of music videos and documentaries. Then came films like ‘My Life Without Me’ (2003). ‘The Secret Life of Words’ (2005), ‘Elegy’ (2008) and ‘No one wants the night’ (2015). It won multiple Goya Awards for ‘Library’ (Best Film and Best Director) in 2018.
The documentary ‘Yellow Roof’ (2022), which is about a group of students who filed a sexual abuse complaint, was premiered in 2020. San Sebastián and Gaudí won the Catalán award In the Best Documentary category. Thanks to the investigation for the film, the prosecutor’s office reopened the case regarding sexual abuse at a drama school.
He received the famous award from France’s Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2015 and the National Film Award in 2020. Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports. With a total of nine awards, Isabel Coixet is the director with the most Goya awards.
She is also the honorary president of the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (EWA). Isabel Coixet will be the guest of honor at the 36th European Film Awards Ceremony to be held in Berlin on December 9.