Tilda Swinton to Be Honored With Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear For Lifetime Achievement

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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Tilda Swinton will be celebrated by the Berlin Film festival with its Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement. “The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking,” said the festival’s artistic director Tricia Tuttle in a statement. “To cinema she brings so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humour and style, and she expands our ideas of the world through her work,” Tuttle added. “Tilda is one of our modern filmmaking idols, and has also long been part of the Berlinale family.

We are delighted to be able to present her with this Honorary Golden Bear,” she went on to note. The award will be presented to Swinton during the fest’s opening ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on Feb.

13, 2025. “The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his “Caravaggio,” said Swinton. “It was my portal into the world in which I have made my life’s work – the world of international filmmaking – and I have never forgotten the debt I owe it,” she added. “To be honoured in this way by this particular festival is deeply touching for me: it will be my privilege and pleasure to celebrate, once more next February, the seedbed that is this wide-eyed and reliably wonderful gathering.” More to follow.