Penélope Cruz, decked in purple, was the honoree on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork’s 2021 Movie Profit this week, when the proceedings returned to in-person attendance for eye-grabbing stars of the silver display screen. Chanel, for which Cruz has been a model ambassador since 2018, collaborated with MoMA on the occasion to boost cash for MoMA’s Division of Movie, which dates again to 1935 and cares for greater than 30,000 movies and 1.5 million movie stills.
The gala featured tributes to Cruz delivered by Rebecca Corridor, Rosalía, Ricky Martin, and MoMA’s chief curator of movie, Rajendra Roy, together with pre-recorded tributes from Pedro Almodóvar and Lupita Nyong’o. The museum additionally screened the new Cruz-starring, Almodóvar-directed Parrallel Moms as a part of “The Contenders,” a collection for which the movie division picks films that appear certain for extra consideration as award season heats up.
In a press launch asserting Cruz because the honoree final month, Roy, the curator, mentioned, “Penélope Cruz has mesmerized cinema audiences since 1992 as an artist who’s as compelling in action-adventures as she is in auteur pushed footage. Maybe most beloved for her collaborations with Pedro Almodovar, her smashing efficiency in his movie Parallel Moms cements her standing as an artist of world stature. The primary Spanish actress to be nominated for and win an Academy Award, Penélope Cruz is actually in a class all her personal.”
Earlier MoMA Movie Profit honorees embody George Clooney, Laura Dern, Martin Scorsese, Julianne Moore, Tom Hanks, Cate Blanchett, Alfonso Cuarón, Tilda Swinton, Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodóvar, Kathryn Bigelow, Tim Burton, and Baz Luhrmann.