Honorary Golden Bear Articles

Meryl Streep, a likely Best Actress Academy Award contender for Phyllida Lloyd's Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady, will receive an Honorary Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival next February 14. As part of the ceremony, The Iron Lady will be screened at the Berlinale Palast. If Streep does get — the inevitable — Oscar nod for The Iron Lady, that'll be [...]

The 59th Berlin International Film Festival's Homage will be dedicated to Maurice Jarre, 84, who will receive the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement on February 12, 2009. Among Jarre's screen credits are the David Lean epics and sub-epics Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India, plus Les Yeux sans visage / Eyes Without a Face, The Collector, Grand Prix, [...]

This year's Berlin Film Festival will present the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement to the unabashedly political Italian filmmaker Francesco Rosi, 85, on February 14, 2008. Rosi's work includes Salvatore Giuliano (above), which earned him the best director Silver Bear in 1962; Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Mattei Affair (1972); and the Oscar nominated Three Brothers (1981). In conjunction with the homage, the Berlin Festival [...]

The 56th Berlin International Film Festival will present the 2006 Honorary Golden Bears to Polish director and screenwriter Andrzej Wajda (above, left) and British actor Ian McKellen (above, right). Andrzej Wajda, one of Poland's best-known filmmakers, has had several of his films in competition in Berlin, including Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania, Miss Nobody, and Holy Week. Among his forty or so features, [...]