On October 19, 2018, King Felipe VI, Queen Letizia and former Queen Sofia of Spain attended the 2018 Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony, held at the Campoamor Teather in Oviedo. US film director Martin Scorsese received the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts 2018 from King Felipe. Other laureates are the nonprofit Amref Africa group, which uses planes and mobile technology to deliver health care across that vast continent; American political philosopher Michael J. Sandel; Mexican investigative journalist Alma Guillermoprieto; and mountaineers Reinhold Messner from Italy and Krzysztof Wielicki from Poland. |