Javier Bardem, Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Festival: with or without Penélope Cruz?

The Madrid actor increases his record. This Friday, the San Sebastian Film Festival has presented the posters for the next edition, which will be held from September 22 to 30, and has announced its brand new winner, Javier Bardem, who will receive a tribute for his prolific and successful film career. The presence of the new Disney Triton is assured, but what about that of Penelope Cruz?

There are few occasions in which we have been able to enjoy marriage on a red carpet, especially in Spain. His busy schedules and his tense relationship with the national press have not made it easy. The last one, at the 2022 Goya Awards gala. A month later, they also posed at the Oscars. The recognition of Bardem in Donosti would be a great opportunity to see them show off their love again after 23 years of marriage and two children together.

Bardem (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1969) will receive this distinction four years after his wife, Penélope Cruz, who was the image of the 67th edition and received the Donostia Award from her friend Bono, the U2 singer.

The actor has starred in the festival’s launch video along with other familiar faces, such as Robert De Niro, Julia Roberts, John Malkovich or Woody Allen. “San Sebastián for me is a gift, it all started here,” says Bardem in the video. And it is that Donosti already awarded him the Silver Shell in 1994 for Numbered Days and The Detective and Death. “This award was a pending issue”, said the director of the Festival, José Luis Rebordinos. “I told him about it two years ago and he couldn’t, and last year it was also impossible. Now he’s really very happy because he loves the festival a lot, although when he told me that this time he could, I was even happier than he was,” he said. has explained.