Faye Dunaway Deauville Icon Award at the 52^nd Deauville American Film Festival on Tuesday, September 8

For more than fifty years, Faye Dun­away has cap­ti­vat­ed audi­ences with her abil­i­ty to embody strong and com­plex women, caught between vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty and deter­mi­na­tion. From the young out­law of Bon­nie & Clyde to the for­mi­da­ble Diana Chris­tensen of Net­work, to the god­dess in dis­tress in Barfly, she has left an indeli­ble mark on Amer­i­can cin­e­ma with roles that have become leg­endary. A muse of New Hol­ly­wood, she has man­aged to tra­verse gen­res with an ele­gance and inten­si­ty that belong only to her. It is this extra­or­di­nary tra­jec­to­ry that the Deauville Fes­ti­val cel­e­brates this year by pre­sent­ing her with the Deauville Icon Award, on the occa­sion of its 52^nd edition.

Born in Flori­da, Faye Dun­away is one of the defin­ing actress­es of Amer­i­can cin­e­ma. She rose to inter­na­tion­al fame in 1967 with Otto Pre­minger’s Hur­ry Sun­down, earn­ing both the BAFTA and Gold­en Globe Awards for Most Promis­ing New­com­er. That same year, her unfor­get­table por­tray­al of Bon­nie Park­er in Arthur Pen­n’s Bon­nie and Clyde estab­lished her as an inter­na­tion­al star and earned her the first of three Acad­e­my Award nom­i­na­tions. She reunit­ed with Arthur Penn for Lit­tle Big Man (1970) and went on to deliv­er a series of icon­ic per­for­mances in films includ­ing Nor­man Jew­ison’s The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Roman Polan­ski’s Chi­na­town (1974) and Syd­ney Pol­lack­’s Three Days of the Con­dor (1975).

In 1977, she won the Acad­e­my Award for Best Actress for her por­tray­al of ambi­tious tele­vi­sion exec­u­tive Diana Chris­tensen in Sid­ney Lumet’s Net­work. Over a career span­ning more than five decades, she has col­lab­o­rat­ed with many of the world’s most cel­e­brat­ed film­mak­ers, star­ring in Irvin Ker­sh­n­er’s The Eyes of Lau­ra Mars (1978), Frank Per­ry’s Mom­mie Dear­est (1981), Bar­bet Schroed­er’s Barfly (1987), Emir Kus­turi­ca’s Ari­zona Dream (1993), John McTier­nan’s remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), James Gray’s The Yards (2000), and Roger Avary’s The Rules of Attrac­tion (2002). Her work on tele­vi­sion has been equal­ly acclaimed, earn­ing her an Emmy Award for Colum­bo and two Gold­en Globe Awards for her per­for­mances in Ellis Island and Gia. 

An icon whose influ­ence extends from film to fash­ion and pop­u­lar cul­ture, Faye Dun­away con­tin­ues to embrace new projects. She will next appear in Pri­ma direct­ed by the Morel­li Broth­ers, along­side Nico­la Peltz Beck­ham, who will be in atten­dance at Deauville.

The pre­sen­ta­tion of the Deauville Icon Award to Faye Dun­away will take place on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 8.

I’m reserv­ing my seat for the cer­e­mo­ny on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 8 : tick­et office