Acclaimed British actor Benedict Cumberbatch shall be honored at this 12 months’s Zurich Movie Pageant with the competition’s Golden Eye award.
The 2-time Oscar nominee will obtain the distinction in individual in Zurich on Sept. 29 and can current his newest function, The Factor With Feathers, which he additionally produced by way of his firm SunnyMarch and Lobo Movies. Cumberbatch will even participate in Zurich’s masterclass program, ZFF Masters.
“Benedict Cumberbatch is likely one of the most versatile character actors of his era. He comes from the theater, masters his craft in each position and provides his characters emotional depth – whether or not as Alan Turing in The Imitation Recreation or as superhero Physician Unusual within the Marvel universe,” stated Zurich competition director Christian Jungen. “We now have proven a lot of his movies on the ZFF lately and are delighted to have the ability to welcome him to Zurich in individual for the primary time – each as an actor and because the producer of The Factor With Feathers.”
Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘The Factor with Feathers.’
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Seven of Cumberbatch’s movies, from 2007’s Atonement by way of 2021’s The Energy of the Canine, have screened on the Zurich competition, however it will mark the actor’s first in-person go to.
“I’m honoured to be invited to the Zurich Movie Pageant to obtain the Golden Eye Award,” Cumberbatch stated in a press release. “This competition is necessary in recognising, encouraging and supporting all filmmakers internationally, with emphasis on inspiring new expertise and voices, one thing near my coronary heart. I’m delighted to be accepting this particular award.”
Cumberbatch is the uncommon performer who has excelled on stage, in TV and movie, with each broadly industrial and extremely inventive work. He’s performed Sherlock Holmes within the BBC’s megahit Sherlock and Physician Unusual within the Marvel Cinema Universe, voiced the dragon Smaug in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, and performed Khan in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek into Darkness (2013), whereas additionally incomes greatest actor Oscar noms for his starring roles in Morten Tyldum The Imitation Recreation (2014) and Jane Campion’s The Energy of the Canine (2021), approval for supporting turns in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave (2013), Joe Wright’s Atonement (2007) and, most just lately, proving he additionally has well-developed comedian muscle tissue, in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme.
In Dylan Southern’s The Factor With Feathers, which premiered at Sundance, Cumberbatch each starred and produced, by way of his firm SunnyMarch. His subsequent function shall be The Roses, starring alongside Olivia Colman in Jay Roach’s modern-day, British reboot of 1989 black comedy traditional The Struggle of the Roses.