Tilda Swinton to Receive Honorary Golden Bear From Berlin Festival
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival is honoring Berlinale favorite Tilda Swinton with an honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement. The award will be presented at the opening ceremony of the Berlinale Palast on Feb. 13, 2025.
“The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking,” said Berlinale festival director Tricia Tuttle. “She brings so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humor and style, and she expands our ideas of the world through her work. 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.”
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Swinton has been a regular at the Berlinale for decades, starring in 26 films that have screened at the festival in various sections off the years. Highlights include Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, which won the Silver Bear at the 1986 Berlinale, Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel, which opened the 2014 festival and 2016 Berlinale opener Hail, Cesar! from the Coen brothers. She served as president of the Berlin competition jury in 2009.
“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 in a statement. “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. To be honored 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 recently, Swinton is making the award season rounds for Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door (2024), the Spanish director’s English-language feature debut, in which she stars alongside Julianne Moore. Swinton just picked up a Golden Globe and a Spanish Goya best actress nomination for her performance.
The 75th Berlinale runs Feb. 13-23, 2025.
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