Julianne Moore Pushes for Extra Tales Centering the Feminine POV at Kering Girls in Movement Awards: ‘I F—ing Love Actresses’

Julianne Moore has obtained loads of accolades all through her 40-year profession — an Oscar, an Emmy, plus awards from Berlin, Venice and Cannes, to call a number of — however the Kering Girls in Movement award is exclusive. This prize, launched in 2015 by Kering in affiliation with the Cannes Movie Competition, celebrates how cinema can advance the function of ladies in society —and that’s a mission near Moore’s coronary heart.

“I fucking love actresses,” Moore declared in the midst of an impassioned speech in regards to the want for extra tales centering the feminine POV, looking at a crowd that included actresses like Demi Moore, Ruth Negga, Vicky Krieps, and previous Girls in Movement honorees Salma Hayek Pinault and Isabelle Huppert.

“This is something that makes me crazy,” Moore mentioned when she stepped to the rostrum on the Place de la Castre in Cannes to obtain the award on Sunday night. “There is a cultural assumption, particularly in the United States, that women’s stories are less interesting or smaller, or that if we’re at the center of a narrative, we need to be strong or accomplishing something great, or doing something that is particularly male, if we want someone to watch us — if we want men to watch us. And I think that’s untrue.”

It’s an assumption that completely ignores the feminine viewers and what they wish to watch, Moore defined. Not solely does she select what cinema she desires to observe based mostly on who she’s going to be taking a look at for 2 hours, however she additionally tries to heart girls as she navigates her on a regular basis life.

“I see the women in my elevator, on the subway, and in the airport. If I need information, I approach a woman,” she mentioned. “When my kids were little, I told them, if you’re ever lost or in trouble, to look for a lady, she will help you. I read books about women. My yoga group is all female, and all of my representatives, my agents, and my managers are female.”

“I’m not saying this to be particularly binary,” Moore continued.  “Or to say the relationships I have with men or male-identifying people are not important to me, but to celebrate the fact that female point of view matters, matters to me, and that’s paramount in storytelling. What is the point of view, and how is it specific? I feel it as an actor when the story and direction are specific, and the audience feels it too.”

There’s a troubling narrative about invisibility for ladies, Moore argued, each in cinema — the place current statistics present that simply 37.1% of roles had been performed by girls and solely 9 girls out of 111 administrators helmed top-grossing movies within the U.S. in 2025 — and within the wider world.

“I’m always curious about that narrative. I want to know where they feel invisible, why they feel invisible, and have we been cultured to only be seen by a particular audience, or to only value that gaze,” Moore mentioned. “I’m also curious at times when I don’t want to be seen, when I want to avoid any gaze, and that’s a lot of the time. But I am always interested in what I want to see. I am more curious about what I observe, what I learn, and what I experience through my own lens. And that’s the most important thing of all: what we as women see, and what we are here to celebrate tonight.” Moore ended her remarks with a easy name to motion: “We need more female voices in our industry, more writers, more directors, more actresses to carry that vision forward.”

Laura Wandel, Salma Hayek Pinault, Margherita Spampinato, Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao and Ruth Negga

Luckily, with accepting the Girls in Movement Award, Moore joins a singular sorority of changemakers dedicated to carrying that banner — together with Jane Fonda, Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Patty Jenkins, Gong Li, Viola Davis, Michelle Yeoh, NBCUniversal Leisure & Studios chairman Donna Langley and her “The Hours” co-star, Nicole Kidman.

Moore was introduced with the award by Cannes president Iris Knobloch — who opened the dinner with remarks in regards to the significance of “turning visibility into real opportunity” for ladies — and Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux — who saluted her for her involvement in political life in addition to cinema. Frémaux then launched a reel of Moore’s performances, together with “Magnolia,” “Boogie Nights,” “Nine Months,” “Hannibal,” “Far From Heaven,” “A Single Man,” “Crazy Stupid Love,” “The Kids Are All Right,” “May December” and the Oscar-winning “Still Alice.”

The clip reel was a deal with for Moore, who giggled, “That’s like watching your life flash before your eyes,” and the well-heeled crowd available to salute her. “I’m such a fan, I got so shy when I walked in and saw her,” Halsey instructed Selection on the black carpet. “She can play everything,” Charlotte Le Bon mentioned, selecting “Magnolia” and “Safe” as her favourite of the actress’s performances. Harry Melling talked about “The Big Lebowski” as a standout: “It’s just a cameo, but my word, she’s absolutely extraordinary in it.”

This 12 months, Moore was feted alongside Italian filmmaker Margherita Spampinato (“Gioia Mia”), who obtained the Rising Expertise Award, which acknowledges a feminine director for her first characteristic movie. The prize comes with a €50,000 grant to assist the filmmaker in making their second characteristic. Final 12 months’s Rising Expertise Awardee, Brazilian director Marianna Brennand, introduced Spampinato with the honour.

“I am grateful and happy to receive this special prize,” Spampinato mentioned onstage. “This award moves me because it supports the creativity and freedom of new female voices in cinema and art around the world. The mixture of talent, together with financial support, represents an important milestone that women are beginning to achieve today, despite the inequality that still exists in the industry.”

Spampinato mentioned she appears to be like on the Kering award as “encouragement to continue telling the stories I love and I believe in.” Her movie, “Gioia Mia,” she defined, is impressed by her grandmother, her grandmother’s cousins and her shut buddies, who helped form her creativeness. “I’m sure that they will be happy and proud to know that we are receiving this award, and that the world, at last, is beginning to change.”

Attendees on the black-tie gala included Jordan Firstman (whose movie “Club Kid” sold in a massive deal to A24 on Monday morning), Sebastian Stan (“Fjord”), Odessa A’zion, Diego Calva (“Club Kid”), Harris Dickinson, Colman Domingo, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Halsey, Vicky Krieps (“Diamond”), Le Bon (“Full Phil”), Rami Malek (“The Man I Love”), Melling (“Butterfly Jam”), Jeremy Pope and “Her Private Hell” stars Sophie Thatcher, Havana Rose Liu and Kristine Frøseth. Director Park Chan-Wook and the pageant’s competitors jury, together with Stellan Skarsgård, Laura Wandel, Chloé Zhao, Diego Céspedes, Isaach De Bankolé and Paul Laverty additionally attended the stylish celebration. Scroll on for a glance inside.