Stellan Skarsgård is the star who will obtain this yr’s Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo on the thirty first version of the Sarajevo Movie Competition, organizers unveiled on Friday.
He’ll get to honor “in recognition of his distinctive contributions to the movie trade and his outstanding appearing profession.”
Stated the star: “The Sarajevo Movie Competition stays unwavering and pushed in its intention to spotlight topics of nice consequence, underscored by an intense lust for all times. I like going there.”
Skarsgård, “a longtime buddy of the Sarajevo Movie Competition, in addition to a curator and one of many patrons of the Katrin Cartlidge Basis – whose scholarships have been awarded on the Sarajevo Movie Competition – offered the inspiration’s scholarship to Juanita Wilson on the pageant’s fifteenth version in 2009,” organizers highlighted.
Stated Jovan Marjanovic, director of the Sarajevo Movie Competition: “It’s a true honor to current the Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo to Stellan Skarsgård, an actor of outstanding depth, power, and integrity. Stellan has been a longtime buddy of Sarajevo, and we’re delighted to welcome him again. His profession is crammed with unforgettable roles in movies that problem, transfer, and stick with audiences. This award is a heartfelt thanks for his excellent contribution to cinema and for the continued help he has proven to our pageant.”
Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino was beforehand unveiled as this yr’s filmmaker receiving the Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo award in the course of the thirty first version of the Sarajevo Movie Competition, which can even function a retrospective of his films screened as a part of the fest’s “tribute to” program.
The Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo Award was established in 2005 with the intention of recognizing “people for his or her excellent contribution to the affirmation and improvement of the movie trade and the help and improvement of the Sarajevo Movie Competition.”
Previous recipients of the honour embrace Meg Ryan (2024), Lynne Ramsay (2023), Jesse Eisenberg (2022), Ruben Östlund (2022), Wim Wenders (2021), Michel Franco (2020), Mads Mikkelsen (2020), Tim Roth (2019), Isabelle Huppert (2019), Alejandro González Iñárritu (2019), Paweł Pawlikowski (2019), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2018), Oliver Stone (2017), John Cleese (2017), Stephen Frears (2016), Robert De Niro (Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016), Benicio Del Toro (2015), Danis Tanović (2014), Gael García Bernal (2014), Jafar Panahi (2011), Angelina Jolie (2011), Steve Buscemi (2007), Mike Leigh (2006), and Marco Müller (2005).
This yr’s Sarajevo fest runs Aug. 15-22.