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Sigourney Weaver Accepts Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion At Venice Film Festival Opening Ceremony: “I Want To Roar”


The 2024 Venice Film Festival officially kicked off with Sigourney Weaver receiving the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Venice Film Festival officially kicked off Wednesday evening with an emotional Sigourney Weaver receiving the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award. 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. Continuing, the actress whose remarkable range of films also includes Ghostbusters, Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl, added, “I have been able to soar all over the world like a hummingbird, darting through time and space and genre, managing to elude whatever box Hollywood might want to put me in… or maybe i’m just too tall.”

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