Kristen Stewart to receive Deauville Talent Award 2019
Tribute evening in her presence on September 13th, followed by the French premiere of Benedict Andrews’ Seberg.
She’s not even 30 years old, but already has a 20-year career behind her. Her unpredictable and stimulating filmography, from a globally-celebrated franchise to the most rigorous auteur cinema, traces a singular path through contemporary American film. We are thrilled to present a Deauville Talent Award to Kristen Stewart.
Making an impression at age 11 as Jodie Foster’s daughter in David Fincher’s Panic Room (2002), then in Sean Penn’s Into the Wild (2007), Kristen Stewart became a worldwide star thanks to the Twilight saga. Between shooting franchise installments, she leaned into the next phase of her career, a shift toward independence and risk-taking. French filmmaker Oliver Assayas (Deauville Jury President in 2011) made her a new muse of auteur cinema with Sils Maria (2014), earning her the only César Award given to an American actress to this day, for Best Supporting Actress in 2015. The director then cast her in the title role in supernatural thriller Personal Shopper (2016).
Symbol of a young generation carving out an identity beyond received ideas, her choices as an actress reflect a desire to question society, in particular how women are represented. This year, we’ll see her in Charlie’s Angels, a new adaptation of the cult 1980s series, this time directed by a woman, Elizabeth Banks. She’ll also carry two films inspired by true events: Justin Kelly’s JT Leroy, as the transgender alias of a female writer played by Laura Dern, and Benedict Andrews’ Seberg, about a rough episode in the life of actress Jean Seberg, who confronted FBI intimidation for her support of the Black Panther Party.
Having supported her career by presenting such films as Udayan Prasad’s The Yellow Handkerchief (2008), Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways (2010), Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys (2010), Peter Sattler’s Camp X-Ray (2014) and Kelly Reichard’s Certain Women (2016), the Deauville Festival is delighted to welcome one of the most brilliant actresses of her generation. More than ever at the intersection of all types of American film, Kristen Stewart couldn’t lend a more dazzling face to our 2019 Deauville Talent Award.
