Cannes 2025: Nicole Kidman wins Kering Women In Motion award, champions gender equality at star-studded event
The Hindu
Australian actor Nicole Kidman vowed to keep pushing for gender equality in cinema at an exclusive party on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday
Australian actor Nicole Kidman vowed to keep pushing for gender equality in cinema at an exclusive party on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday. The actor was awarded the Kering Women In Motion award at the Women in Motion dinner at Cannes, part of a program set up by luxury group Kering in 2015.
"I'm just an advocate and want to continue to keep moving forward with that, with my pledge from 2017, so it ain't over," said the actor.
Kidman, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours in 2002, has worked with many of the leading male directors of her generation, but she pledged in 2017 to shoot with a female director every 18 months.
She told journalists in the French Riviera resort town earlier on Sunday that in the eight years since, she's worked with 27 female directors, including projects in development.
"Part of it is protecting and surrounding the women with almost like a force field of protection and support," she said.
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