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Lifts Lid On Remarkable Career From ‘Alien’ To ‘Avatar’, ‘Working Girl’ To ‘Ghostbusters’ And ‘Star Wars’ Role To Come

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On Eve Of Her Venice Lifetime Achievement Award. Long interview.

https://deadline.com/2024/08/sigourney-weaver-interview-venice-film-festival-golden-lion-award-alien-avatar-1236052005/

Two years ago, Sigourney Weaver handed the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to the filmmaker Paul Schrader. As she explains to us in a rare sit-down, she didn’t imagine that two years later she would be receiving the same accolade.

Looking over her career is to be quickly reminded that there are few actresses working today who are more deserving. Between Alien, Ghostbusters and Avatar, Weaver has left an indelible mark on some of cinema’s most iconic sci-fi franchises. As Ellen Ripley, she represented a heroine unprecedented in the action and sci-fi genre up to that point.

But the three-time Oscar nominee is perhaps most worthy of the Venice award she will receive at the festival Wednesday for her remarkable range, and her ability in the words of Venice festival director Alberto Barbera to “side-step labels that sought to restrict her”: “She constantly challenged her persona through choices that ranged from genre movies to comedies, art-house films to children’s movies…”

The New Yorker becomes only the third American actress ever to receive Venice’s career award after Jane Fonda and Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Sigourney Weaver Accepts Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion At Venice Film Festival Opening Ceremony: “I Want To Roar”
https://deadline.com/2024/08/sigourney-weaver-venice-film-festival-opening-ceremony-1236071382/

The Venice Film Festival officially kicked off Wednesday evening with an emotional Sigourney Weaver receiving the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award. Enthused Weaver from the Lido’s Sala Grande stage, “I want to roar!” The three-time Oscar nominee thanked the festival for what she called a “jet-fuel of encouragement,” adding, “I can’t believe I’m here.”

During the Weaver tribute, a videotape message had previously been sent from Weaver’s Aliens and Avatar director James Cameron who wished her “massive congratulations.” He continued, “I am blessed to know her as a friend … our working bond of trust and respect has only gotten stronger with every new project.”

He further noted that Weaver received her first Academy Award nomination for their first collaboration, 1986’s Aliens, and said she is “way overdue for that Oscar.”

In her acceptance, Weaver thanked Cameron for the message and also had special praise for her Year of Living Dangerously director Peter Weir who is also receiving a career achievement Lion during the festival. Weir made her “fall in love with film,” she said.