Pedro Almodovar is the next winner of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Chaplin Award for Film.
The Oscar-winning writer-director will host an event at Lincoln Center on April 28, 2025, featuring excerpts from his work and appearances by co-stars, friends and colleagues.
The announcement comes ahead of the U.S. premiere of Almodovar’s first English-language feature and a New York Film Festival centerpiece gala screening next door roomstarring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.
next door room The film, which won the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, is scheduled to be released in Los Angeles and New York on December 20, then expanded to select cities on December 25 and released nationwide in January.
Almodovar is one of Spain’s best-known filmmakers, his feature films include woman on the verge of nervous breakdown (1988); Tie me up! Tie me down! (1989); everything about my mother (1999), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; talk to her (2002), for which Almodóvar won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; return (2006); and pain and glory (2019). He also produced the critically acclaimed short film 2023 strange lifestylestarring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal.
“Pedro Almodóvar is a master storyteller whose artistry, creativity and exceptional talent captivated audiences and films,” said Lesli Klainberg, president of Films at Lincoln Center. Filmmaker. “From his earliest films, he has immersed us in emotionally rich, vibrant, complex and compassionate worlds. Pedro’s belief in the power of cinema to entertain and illuminate the human experience has moved him Hearts of film lovers everywhere. Films at Lincoln Center is proud to honor Pedro Almodovar with the 50th Chaplin Award.
Wendy Keys, secretary of the Film Board of Lincoln Center, added: “Pedro burst into our lives in 1985 with the premiere of his irreverent and darkly humorous film. What have I done to deserve this? In New Directors/New Movies. I had a huge party that night at my apartment and that’s when I fell in love. Over the years, he screened 15 films at the New York Film Festival and helped found the Walter Reade Theater, which screened High heel 1991. We are very pleased that Pedro is the winner of the 50th Chaplin Award.
next door roomSony Pictures Classics’ “Almodóvar” is the 15th time Almodóvar has been shortlisted for the New York Film Festival, with 9 films participating in the grand awards ceremony, setting a record high. Almodóvar’s past film festival films include The Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Bad Education, Wolfer, Living Flesh, Talking to Her, Broken Embraces, Parallel Mothers, My Secret Flower, The Skin I Live In, Juliet, Pain and glory, human voice and strange lifestyle.
