76 awards for Jodie Foster, champion of "Taxi Driver" and "The Silence of the Lambs"
Despite her gentle features and calm demeanor, beautiful Jodie Foster achieved her fame through two of Hollywood's most bloody and controversial films, The Taxi Driver and The Silence of the Lambs, in addition to dozens of films ranging from horror, thriller and crime.
Foster combines acting, directing and production, and sees acting as a life for her, and directing is a cure for all worries and problems. The Cannes Festival honored her in its last edition and gave her an honorary Golden Palm. She won two Oscars, and she does not hide her greed for a third coronation, whether in acting or directing.
Throughout her film career, Foster has received 199 award nominations, and won 76 awards including all major awards, the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTAs, including Honors at Cannes and Berlin.
Jodie Foster or Alicia Christian Foster was born on November 19, 1962, in California. She did not waste time in art, and entered advertising at the age of three.
At the age of nine, she began her film career, and starred at the age of 12, as she played the role of a child exploited by adults in the famous movie Taxi Driver, and for her eyes, he attempted to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan to draw her attention to him.
She met the famous director Martin Scorsese at the age of ten, where she acted as his director in the movie "Alice Is Not Here Anymore" in 1974.
Two years later, she met him in the movie, which introduced her strongly to the audience, and became a mark of international cinema, "Taxi Driver".
The film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes at the time, and Foster was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, but did not win the award.
It is difficult to enumerate the prominent films of Jodie Foster, because her participation in any film is a recognition of its quality and distinction, but there are films that are signs in the cinema thanks to Foster's efforts, including, for example, the French film The Blood of Others by Claude Chabrol, which was shown in 1984, in which she played the role of French seamstress in World War II.
She then starred in Jonathan Deem's Silence of the Lambs, which was shown in 1991, and co-starred in front of the fearsome giant Anthony Hopkins, and played the role of a young detective tasked with interrogating a serial killer and cannibal, Anthony Hopkins, who played a match in intelligence and cunning, and deserved the Oscar for Best Actress. For her role in the film, and not only that, she also won prestigious international awards in the same year, such as BAFTA and Golden Globe.
Foster played a wonderful role in the 1976 mystery thriller "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane", in which she played a 13-year-old girl or teenager who is harassed by her neighbors.
And she returned to win the Oscar for the second time for the movie "The Accused", which is also a crime movie, and revolves around a girl who is raped and then morally assassinated.
In the movie Nell, she gave an impressive performance and won many awards in 1994, playing a girl who lives in isolation with her family.
Foster believes that filmmaking is the best cure for all mental illnesses, because it teaches its owner how to deal with and lead others.
Despite winning the Oscar twice, she hopes to repeat the achievement, and enters the race for the most prestigious award with veteran Meryl Streep.
Foster describes the joy of winning an Oscar as worth a lifetime, and she hopes to achieve it in light of legitimate competition with her colleagues.
