Tilda Swinton to be given prestigious award for career achievements
Oscar winning actress Tilda Swinton is set to be honored for her incredible career
The Berlin Film Festival is set to honor accomplished actress Tilda Swinton with an Honorary Golden Bear for her incredible career. The Doctor Strange star will receive the honor at the Berlinale Palast on February 13, 2025.
Festival Director Tricia Tuttle showered praise on the star, saying, “The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking. To cinema she brings so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humour 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,” she added.
Swinton in turn shared thanks for the award, saying, “The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his Caravaggio. 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 gushed over the prestigious award: “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.”
Academy Award-winning Tilda Swinton most recently appeared in The Room Next Door.
