Los Angels (USA)- Julia Roberts is being honoured in a big way.
The Oscar winner, 54, is set to receive the Academy Museum Gala Icon Award at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ second-annual gala this October.
As Academy Museum Director and President Jacqueline Stewart said in a release, “Throughout her expansive and renowned career, Julia has embodied iconic characters and memorable roles.”
“We are thrilled to honour her continued excellence in the industry and contribution to the arts,” Stewart added.
“Throughout her expansive and renowned career, Julia Roberts has embodied iconic characters and memorable roles,” said Jacqueline Stewart, the newly instated Director and President of the Academy Museum, in a statement. “We are thrilled to honour her continued excellence in the industry and contribution to the arts.”
Julia Roberts won an Oscar in 2000 for her leading role in “Erin Brockovich.”
Director Steve McQueen, actor Tilda Swinton and “Parasite” producer Miky Lee are also receiving awards at the gala on Oct. 15 in Los Angeles.
The gala serves as a fundraiser for the museum’s programming and educational initiatives. Last year’s inaugural event raised over $11 million. The museum also unveiled a starry Gala Host Committee, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Duvall, Regina Hall, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ariana DeBose and many more.
Roberts’ film career launched in the late 1980s with films like Mystic Pizza and Steel Magnolias, and she is known for becoming romantic-comedy royalty over the decades.
Pretty Woman launched Roberts into superstardom in 1990. She would later appear in beloved films like Hook, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Stepmom, Notting Hill, Runaway Bride, Ocean’s Eleven, and Mona Lisa Smile, Closer, Eat Pray Love and more. Roberts won her first Academy Award for 2000’s Erin Brockovich.
Recently, the actress — who will appear later this year in Ol Parker’s Ticket to Paradise, alongside her Ocean’s costar George Clooney — told The New York Times Magazine that she wouldn’t be opposed to doing another romantic comedy. Still, she hasn’t found anything “good enough.”
“People sometimes misconstrue the time that’s gone by that I haven’t done a romantic comedy as my not wanting to do one,” Roberts said. “If I had read something that I thought was that Notting Hill level of writing or My Best Friend’s Wedding level of madcap fun, I would do it. They didn’t exist until this movie that I just did that Ol Parker wrote and directed.”
