{"id":117714,"date":"2026-08-20T04:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117714\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:24:10","slug":"naomi-watts-to-receive-zurich-fest-golden-eye-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117714\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Watts to Receive Zurich Fest Golden Eye Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) will honor two-time Oscar nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/naomi-watts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_naomi-watts_1\" data-tag=\"naomi-watts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Watts<\/a> this year with a Golden Eye Award for her performance in Ben Shirinian\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-housewife\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-housewife_1\" data-tag=\"the-housewife\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Housewife<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the \u201960s-set drama, based on a true-story, a young New York Times journalist, played by Tye Sheridan, tracks down a man he suspects of being a Nazi officer living secretly in Queens (Luke Evans). But when the reporter befriends the suspect\u2019s elegant and enigmatic wife (Watts), the implications of his investigation become much more unsettling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Housewife will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival before heading to Zurich. Watts will accept her Golden Eye honor in person in Zurich on Sept. 26 and take part in a ZFF masterclass. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cSince her breakthrough in David Lynch\u2019s Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts has been one of the most fascinating actresses of our time,\u201d said Zurich Festival CEO Christian Jungen, announcing the honor on Thursday. \u201cHer greatest performances thrive on the tension between glamour and darkness, between what a character reveals and what she conceals \u2014 making her the kind of character actress Hitchcock would have loved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn The Housewife, said Jungen, Watts \u201cmasters this ambiguity as an elegant and mysterious woman [and] delivers one of the most compelling performances of her career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWatts is a two-time Academy Award nominee, nominated for best actress in 2004 for her turn as a grieving mother in Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s 21 Grams; and in 2013 for her role as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami in J.A. Bayona\u2019s The Impossible. On the small screen, her performance as Baby Paley in the second season of Ryan Murphy\u2019s Feud earned her an Emmy nomination for best actress in a limited\/anthology series or TV movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPrevious winners of Zurich\u2019s Golden Eye Award include Kristen Stewart, Jude Law, Benedict Cumberbatch and Dakota Johnson. The 2026 Zurich Film Festival runs Sept. 24 \u2013 Oct. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) will honor two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts this year with a Golden Eye&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[10297,272,57295,57296,57297,51,54805],"class_list":["post-117714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-awards","tag-international","tag-naomi-watts","tag-the-housewife","tag-toronto-2026","tag-zurich","tag-zurich-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117125936943305193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}