Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will receive the Golden Lion for his career in the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival, announced the organizers of the event, to be held between the 28 August and 7 September on the island of Lido.

The decision was taken by the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale, where the Mostra Film is part, to consider the director as “the largest and most influential” Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel, EFE.

Director of “Women at the edge of a nervous attack” (1988) it “Everything about my mother” (1999) He accepted recognition and was “excited and honored” besides recalling his international debut with the premiere of “In darkness” (1983) in Show.

Venice also awarded his honorary Golden Lion British actress Julie Andrews, performer of unforgettable roles as Mary Poppins (1964) o en The Sound of Music (1965).