Antonio Banderas will receive the honorary Golden Biznaga at the Malaga Festival

Antonio Banderas will receive the honorary Golden Biznaga at the Malaga Festival On this occasion the Municipal Archives will host an exhibition that recognizes the career of actor and director from Malaga.

The M laga Festival this year celebrates his desire, already expressed previously but never materialized until this 20th Edition, recognize the brilliant career of Antonio Banderas at the time that the continued support received from who, since the first edition, is its Honorary President.

This award ceremony will take place during the Gala de Clausura of the 20th Edition of the Festival, which Cervantes, place of special significance for Antonio Banderas, will be held on Saturday, March 25, from 8 in the afternoon, in the theatre since his training as an actor was in Malaga, in theatres and venues of the city , where he lived his early years and professional illusions.

The Gala de Clausura will thus have a pointed Malaga value, since, as well as Antonio Banderas, as presenter of the Act have the singer Diana Navarro, also born in Malaga. Both share friendship and mutual admiration, so their meeting onstage at the Cervantes will reach an intimate complicity in moments which, undoubtedly, will be of special significance to the actor and director from Malaga.

Reason for this distinction, the Municipal Archives of Malaga Andr s Padr n about Antonio Banderas exposes the photographic collection with a series of images that makes a tour of the trajectory of the Malaga performer, stages which are reflected through photographs of shoots, promotional images and national premieres. Padr n is a recognized collector that has a file that has with thousands of images and crowd of stands, photographs in paper and slides of cinema the exhibition is close the Sunday 26 of March and the entry is free to complete capacity.

Flags, a life dedicated to the film Since his arrival in American cinema, Antonio Banderas is indisputably one of the most important international players of his generation. He has received rave reviews for his performances in film, television and theatre, as well as behind the scenes as film director. In 2005, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He made his debut as a director with Crazy in Alabamastarring Melanie Griffith. His second feature, the English road, is a story about of age following the first loves and obsessions during the holidays a few friends at the end of the 70s.

In 2003, flags won a nomination to the Tony to the Best Actor of Musical by his debut on Broadway in the production Nine from the Roundabout Theater Company, directed by David Leveaux, a musical inspired by the film 8 of Fellini. He also received the Drama Desk Award, Theatre World Award and Drama League award New York Critics Circle Award for her performance in the musical.

Banderas has worked with some of the best directors and actors in Hollywood and in Desperado, Robert Rodriguez, with Salma Hayek; The Mexican, with Johnny Depp; Original sin, with Angelina Jolie; It avoids, Alan Parker, with Madonna, for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor; The mask of Zorro, Martin Campbell, with Catherine Zeta-Jones, for which he received his second nomination for Golden Globe Best Actor, and its sequel, The legend of Zorro; Interview with the Vampire, Neil Jordan, with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt; Philadelphia, from Jonathan Demme, with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington; The House of the spirits, Bille August, with Meryl Streep and Glenn Close; and Femme Fatale, of Brian de Palma. It was nominated for the third time to the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his performance as the infamous Pancho Villa at the launch of Featuring Pancho Villa HBO in 2003.

Born in Malaga, Banderas studied at the school of dramatic art in his hometown, and after graduating began his career as an actor working in a small theatre company based in that city. He later moved to Madrid and became a member of the company of the prestigious National Theatre of Spain.

In 1982, Pedro Almod var gave him a role in Labyrinth of passion. It was the first of the seven films that would do with Spanish director and screenwriter. Others were Matador, law of desire, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown and Tie me down!. The international success of these films led him to Hollywood. Is also the protagonist of The Skin I Live In and Passengers loversalso written and directed by Almod var.

Also included in his filmography: Automat, Knight of Cups, 3, Bob Esponja mercenaries: a hero out of the water, the Avengers, Justin and the swords value, Ruby, the girl of my dreams, indomitable, Black Gold, the Prince of the desert, Puss in boots, you will meet the man of your dreams, the particle of God, The Other Man, Shrek 2: return to fairy tale, Shrek third , Shrek 4, happy forever, the trilogy of Spy Kids, Rhapsody in Miami, Four Rooms, murderers, never talk to strangers, Two Much, the 13th Warrior, until the last round and Enemies: Ecks vs Sever.

Banderas also starred in The 33, dirigida por Patricia Riggen, junto a Juliette Binoche y Rodrigo Santoro. Los pr ximos proyectos de Banderas incluyen la pel cula de acci n de Simon West, Salty, con Olga Kurylenko; Black Butterfly, con Piper Perabo y Jonathan Rhys Meyers, y la pel cula de acci n de Alan Derroche, Security. Recientemente ha participado en la producci n de Stoic, de Isaac Florentine, con Paz Vega, Karl Urban y Robert Forster.

Coming soon will be protagonist of Beyond The Edge, de Aleksandr Boguslavskiy, y del biopic de Andrea Bocelli, The Music of Silence, de Michael Radford.

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