Princess of Asturias Awards: Martin Scorsese, mountaineers and anti-FGM campaigners
Monday, October 22, 2018 @ 8:13 AM
FORMERLY the 'Prince of Asturias Awards', but renamed the 'Princess of Asturias Awards' in 2014 when said Prince became King, these Royal honours are often referred to as Spain's answer to the Nobel Prize – and are becoming more and more international.
In fact, this year, none of the recipients is Spanish – compared with previous years when practically all of them were.
Running since 1981, the prestigious prizegiving – which took place late on Friday in Oviedo, Asturias – comes in eight categories: Arts; Communication and Humanities; International Cooperation; Concordance; Sports; Letters; Social Sciences; and Science and Technology Research.
Probably the most famous face at the 2018 awards, after King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, was legendary film director Martin Scorsese, the guest of honour
Arts Award: Martin Scorsese
Italian-American director Scorsese, 75, was lauded by the King for 'the greatness of his works', his 'constant search for truth and redemption', his 'passion for life' and his 'ability to flesh out...the ambivalence of human feelings'.
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