Viola Davis is about to be honored at Cannes this month with the 2022 Girls In Movement Award, to be offered by the pageant in partnership with world luxurious group Kering.
As famous by a press launch saying the award ceremony, “Davis is among the few Hollywood personalities to have received a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, 4 SAG Awards, and what Hollywood calls the Triple Crown of Appearing: two Tony Awards, an Oscar, and an Emmy, for her roles within the stage play ‘King Hedley II,’ ‘Fences’ and its outstanding movie adaptation, and the TV sequence ‘ Get Away with Homicide.’”
The award will acknowledge Davis not only for her achievements as an actor and producer, but additionally for her activism — as a part of the Me Too motion, in calling out the historic underrepresentation and marginalization of individuals of colour and particularly Black ladies within the inventive industries, and her work combating poverty and baby starvation.
Along with her Greatest Supporting Actress Oscar for “Fences,” Davis has obtained nominations for “Ma Rainey’s Black Backside,” “Doubt,” and “The Assist.” Since founding her personal manufacturing firm, JuVee Productions, along with her husband Julius Tennon, she has produced movies akin to “Troop Zero” and Gina Prince-Bythewood’s upcoming “The Girl King,” by which she additionally stars.
Final month, Davis additionally revealed her memoir, “Discovering Me.”
Since 2015, the Girls in Movement program has acknowledged inspirational figures within the movie trade, rewarding and highlighting ladies’s creativity and contributions to tradition via its award and a sequence of talks. Earlier winners of the award embody Jane Fonda, Gong Li, and Salma Hayek.
Supply: Women And Hollywood