The Zurich Movie Pageant (ZFF) will honor two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts this yr with a Golden Eye Award for her efficiency in Ben Shirinian’s The Housewife.
Within the ’60s-set drama, primarily based on a true-story, a younger New York Occasions journalist, performed by Tye Sheridan, tracks down a person he suspects of being a Nazi officer residing secretly in Queens (Luke Evans). However when the reporter befriends the suspect’s elegant and enigmatic spouse (Watts), the implications of his investigation turn out to be far more unsettling.
The Housewife can have its world premiere on the Toronto Movie Pageant earlier than heading to Zurich. Watts will settle for her Golden Eye honor in particular person in Zurich on Sept. 26 and participate in a ZFF masterclass.
“Since her breakthrough in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts has been one of the fascinating actresses of our time,” mentioned Zurich Pageant CEO Christian Jungen, saying the consideration on Thursday. “Her best performances thrive on the strain between glamour and darkness, between what a personality reveals and what she conceals — making her the sort of character actress Hitchcock would have beloved.”
In The Housewife, mentioned Jungen, Watts “masters this ambiguity as a chic and mysterious lady [and] delivers one of the compelling performances of her profession.”
Watts is a two-time Academy Award nominee, nominated for finest actress in 2004 for her flip as a grieving mom in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams; and in 2013 for her position as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami in J.A. Bayona’s The Unattainable. On the small display, her efficiency as Child Paley within the second season of Ryan Murphy’s Feud earned her an Emmy nomination for finest actress in a restricted/anthology sequence or TV film.
Earlier winners of Zurich’s Golden Eye Award embody Kristen Stewart, Jude Regulation, Benedict Cumberbatch and Dakota Johnson. The 2026 Zurich Movie Pageant runs Sept. 24 – Oct. 4.
