Ethan Hawke who plays the role of GOODNIGHT ROBICHEAUX in The Magnificent Seven has recently received the Donostia Career Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
He has received this award ahead of the release of the film. The film has already got conversations going and this award only gives audiences one more reason to go catch the film which releases on 23rd September!
Hawke secured his first film role in 1985’s Explorers, in which he played an alien-obsessed schoolboy alongside River Phoenix, but it was ‘Dead Poets Society’ where he made his breakthrough appearance, playing Todd Anderson, a shy student opposite Robin Williams’s inspirational English teacher.
As a lead actor it was White Fang (1991) which was followed by “Before Sunrise’ where Hawke again received critical acclaim, this time for his performance in Richard Linklater’s 1995 drama.
In Training Day (2001) which was a blockbuster hit, Ethan Hawke played a rookie cop Jake Hoyt, alongside Denzel Washington, as one of a pair of narcotics detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department spending 24 hours in the gang neighborhoods of South Los Angeles.
Ethan Hawke’s landmark performance was while working with the Spierig brothers on the science fiction thriller Predestination, in which he plays a time-traveling agent on his final assignment.
His upcoming films are ‘Maudie’ which is expected to release soon and then the 2017 release ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’.
