Susan Sarandon, the star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, The Client, and one of the leads in Peter Jackson's upcoming The Lovely Bones, was honored with the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award. Sarandon, who won an Oscar for Dead Man Walking, was in Stockholm to receive her special Bronze Horse. Photo: Johan Gunnarsson
Among Sarandon's other screen credits are The Other Side of Midnight, Loving Couples, The Hunger, The Buddy System, The Witches of Eastwick, Bull Durham, Twilight (not the Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart vampire tale), Elizabethtown, The Greatest, In the Valley of Elah, Enchanted, Speed Racer, and the upcoming Peacock and Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.
Sarandon has been touted as a potential best supporting actress contender for the 2010 Academy Awards for her work in The Lovely Bones.
Susan Sarandon. Photo: Jenny Arner
Susan Sarandon introduced a special screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The 1975 cult musical co-stars Barry Bostwick and Tim Curry as a transsexual vampire. Jim Sharman directed. Photo: Johan Gunnarsson
Photos: Courtesy of the Stockholm Film Festival
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