{"id":119190,"date":"2026-08-22T20:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/119190\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:02:49","slug":"naomi-watts-to-receive-zurich-film-festivals-golden-eye-award-for-the-housewife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/119190\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Watts to Receive Zurich Film Festival&#8217;s Golden Eye Award for &#8216;The Housewife&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"><a id=\"auto-tag_zurich-film-festival\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/zurich-film-festival\/\" data-tag=\"zurich-film-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zurich Film Festival<\/a> is to honour actress <a id=\"auto-tag_naomi-watts\" href=\"http:\/\/au.variety.com\/t\/naomi-watts\/\" data-tag=\"naomi-watts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Watts<\/a> with the Golden Eye Award for her performance in Ben Shirinian\u2019s \u201cThe Housewife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">In Zurich, she will present the film, in which she portrays the enigmatic wife of a suspected Nazi. The actress will personally accept the award on Sept. 26 and offer insights into her career during a ZFF Masters session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">The festival described Watts, who has earned two Academy Award nominations, as \u201can artist renowned for her emotional depth, versatility and unwavering commitment to her roles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">In \u201cThe Housewife,\u201d she plays an elegant and inscrutable woman living in 1960s New York whose flawless fa\u00e7ade gradually begins to crack when a young journalist from the New York Times uncovers clues about her husband\u2019s dark past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">Christian Jungen, CEO of the festival, said, \u201cSince her breakthrough in David Lynch\u2019s \u2018Mulholland Drive,\u2019 Naomi Watts has been one of the most fascinating actresses of our time. Her greatest performances thrive on the tension between glamour and darkness, between what a character reveals and what she conceals \u2013 making her the kind of character actress Hitchcock would have loved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">\u201cIn \u2018The Housewife,\u2019 she masters this ambiguity as an elegant and mysterious woman. At the same time, the film tells a true story that powerfully illustrates how indispensable investigative journalism is in uncovering historical crimes. Naomi Watts delivers one of the most compelling performances of her career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">Watts said, \u201cIt is such an honor to be presented with the Golden Eye Award from Zurich Film Festival. I cannot wait to be there, accepting this award among such great company, and I thank the film festival for honoring my role in this film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Love Film &amp; TV?<\/p>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in music, film and TV in Australia and abroad.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/spinner.png\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/naomi-watts-zurich-the-housewife-1236838419\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Variety US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zurich Film Festival is to honour actress Naomi Watts with the Golden Eye Award for her performance in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[57295,51,27085],"class_list":["post-119190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-naomi-watts","tag-zurich","tag-zurich-film-festival"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117140954077512065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119190","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=119190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}