Category: Awards + Tributes

The Career Achievement Tribute honors an actor or actress whose work has had a major impact and advanced the frontiers of cinematic artistry around the world.

An internationally acclaimed actor with over fifty films to his credit, Depp has starred in some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters and earned critics’ praise for his commanding performances. He has garnered three Academy Award® Best Actor nominations -- for his memorable performances as a singing barber in Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd”; as Sir James Matthew Barrie in Marc Forster’s family drama “Finding Neverland;” and for his iconic role as Captain Jack Sparrow in Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.”

He has received both critical and popular acclaim from his unique work in a variety of memorable films but when he was cast as Captain Jack Sparrow in “The Pirates of Caribbean” trilogy, his characterization of the plundering pirate captivated international moviegoers, made box office history, and catapulted Depp to an all new level of international stardom.

Depp’s screen credits include “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “The Libertine,” “Once Upon a Time in Mexico,” “Blow,” “Chocolat,” ‘Sleepy Hollow,” “Ed Wood,” “Donnie Brasco,” “Don Juan Demarco,” “Edward Scissorhands,” “The Ninth Gate,” “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “From Hell,” “Before Night Falls,” “Secret Window,” “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” “Benny and Joon” and “Platoon,” to name a few.

Most recently, Depp portrayed famed Chicago bank robber, John Dillinger, in Michael Mann’s period heist, “Public Enemies” and is one of three actors selected by filmmaker Terry Gilliam to substitute in the starring role left behind by the tragic death of actor Heath Ledger in “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus”.

Depp will next be seen starring in Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Rum Diary.”