Best actress Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (for Dead Man Walking back in 1995) was at the 2009 edition of the Stockholm Film Festival, where she was handed the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award. (Photo: Kalle Mörck.)
Among Sarandon's screen credits, which span nearly 40 years, are Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, and The Client. She was nominated for best actress Academy Awards for those four films.
Susan Sarandon will next be seen in Peter Jackson's supernatural murder thriller/psychological drama The Lovely Bones, in which Sarandon plays Saoirse Ronan's grandmother. Also in the film's cast are Mark Wahlberg, Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz (for The Constant Gardener in 2005), and Stanley Tucci.
While in Stockholm, Sarandon also introduced a special screening of the 1975 cult musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which she plays opposite Barry Bostwick and Tim Curry.
Writer-producer-director Luc Besson, among whose directorial credits are The Big Blue, The Professional, La Femme Nikita, and The Fifth Element, receives the Stockholm Visionary Award from actress/model Emma Wiklund. Photo: Jenny Arner
Cary Fukunaga's socio-psychological drama Sin Nombre, about Central Americans trying to enter the United States, was voted best first film. Sin Nombre's male star, Edgar Flores, was chosen best actor. (Photo: Emi Stahl.)
Photos: Courtesy of the Stockholm Film Festival
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Great to see Susan Sarandon being so honored. Perhaps it's also time to give her a special Academy Award. She's been around for four decades. That's a very long time for an actress.