Painter-turned-filmmaker Julian Schnabel (73) will be honored with the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award this summer at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.
Once a crowned prince of the New York art world in the late 70s and early 80s, Schnabel turned to filmmaking in the mid-90s with Basquiat. An underappreciated biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a fellow titan in the 1980s New York art scene, that starred Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, and Dennis Hopper.
Since then, Schnabel has continued to make an impact in the film community by directing five more feature films with a sixth on the way (In the Hand of Dante.) His 2007 biographical drama The Diving Bell and the Butterfly earned four Academy Award nominations and a Best Director award at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.
The Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award is dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry and has seen recent recipients that include Wes Anderson and Claude Lelouch. After an Out of Competition screening of Schnabel’s new picture, In the Hand of Dante, at the main theater of the Sala Grande on September 3, Schnabel will be honored with the prestigious award.
In the Hand of Dante is based on a novel by Nick Tosches and follows a timid scholar who is tasked by the New York City mob to authenticate an original manuscript of The Divine Comedy and stars Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, John Malkovich, Martin Scorsese, Jason Momoa, and Franco Nero.
In regard to the news of his honor, Schnabel said, “I never dreamed that I would become a filmmaker, let alone be honored with this award and be included alongside so many filmmakers I admire, because in fact I am a painter,” he continued. “But I guess I am a filmmaker as well. I’ve now shown my films at the Venice Film Festival for almost 30 years, and to receive the Glory to the Filmmaker Award for the world premiere of my new film, In the Hand of Dante, means so much to me, as tracking Dante and Nick’s trajectory in this film has somehow mirrored my own life. Thank you. I couldn’t be happier about this.”
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