Javier Cámara wins the Malaga-SUR Award of the 27th Malaga Festival
The event recognises the actor with this award, which rewards professionals with a long and recognised film career
As its 27th edition (from the 1st to the 24th of March), Malaga Festival will give Javier Cámara the Malaga-Sur Award. The Festival gives this award, in collaboration with Diario Sur, to professionals with a long and recognised film career, as is the case of Javier Cámara, one of the most multitalented, versatile, and beloved actors on the current scene.
Javier Cámara, from La Rioja, has been a regular in Spanish film, television, and theatre for more than three decades. He has won two Goya Awards, for Best Supporting Male Actor for Truman by director Cesc Gay and Best Leading Male Actor for Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados directed by David Trueba. At the Malaga Festival he has won the Biznaga de Plata award for Best Actor twice: in 2003 for Torremolinos 73 by Pablo Berger, and in 2008 for Fuera de carta, directed by Nacho G. Velilla.
He has received five more Goya nominations, four Unión de Actores awards, two Feroz awards (the last one in 2022 in the category of best comedy actor in a TV series for his role as Venga Juan). A MiM SERIES Award for best comedy actor (for the same character in Vota Juan), a Medal from the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos and an Espiga de Honor award for his whole career, awarded by the Valladolid International Film Festival at its 65th edition in 2021. The latest award was last year, when he was given one of the most prestigious awards in this country, the 2022 Ondas Award for Best Actor.
He has worked with director Pedro Almodóvar in Hable con ella, La mala educación and Los amantes pasajeros. He simultaneously premiered La vida secreta de las palabras by Isabel Coixet and Malas temporadas by Manuel Martín Cuenca in 2005. Since then, he has continued to be present in cinema, especially with Isabel Coixet, David Trueba and the director Cesc Gay.
Although he has participated in many films in recent years, such as Ficción, Una pistola en cada mano, Sentimental (all three directed by Cesc Gay), Es por tu bien, Fe de etarras, La reina de España, El tiempo de los monstruos, Perdiendo el norte and the aforementioned Truman and Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados, Javier Cámara has also had time to leave his mark on the small screen with series such as 7 vidas, ¡Ay señor, señor! Periodistas, Lex or more recently, giving life to the politician Juan Carrasco, in Vota Juan and its sequel, Vamos Juan, for Movistar+, in which he has made his debut as a director, directing one of the episodes. His last appearance in this field was in the two seasons of the series Rapa, produced by Portocabo, which he has just finished filming its third season, in which, as well as repeating his starring role, he is once again behind the camera as director of one of the episodes.
He is no stranger to the theatre, either. We still remember his role in Realidad, the great classic by Harold Pinter at the María Guerrero Theatre in Madrid. We were able to see him in Los farsantes last year, with libretto and direction by Pablo Remón for the Centro Dramático Nacional, a director for whom he will work again under his direction in 2024, starring in Vania x Vania for the CDN, which will soon begin rehearsals.
In his international career, his work stands out in productions such as Narcos, The Young Pope and The New Pope (the latter two directed by Paolo Sorrentino), and the Colombian film El olvido que seremos, a film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Héctor Abad Faciolince, a film in which Javier returns to work under the direction of Fernando Trueba and which closed the San Sebastián Festival in 2021.
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