Stockholm Film Festival Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos (top); Mo’Nique in Precious (middle); Edgar Flores in Sin Nombre (bottom) In Giorgos Lanthimos‘ Dogtooth, winner of the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival’s Bronze Horse for best film, a patriarch (Christos Stergioglou) tries to shield his cloistered wife (Michelle Valley) and two daughters (Aggeliki Papoulia and Mary Tsoni) from the outside world. Apart from selected home video entertainment and Frank Sinatra records [...]

2009 Stockholm Film Festival Awards 2009 Stockholm Film Festival: Nov. 18-29, 2009 2009 Stockholm Film Festival Award winners   Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos   BRONZE HORSE AWARDS Best Film: Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos Best First Feature: Sin Nombre by Cory Juji Fukanaga Best Actress Mo’Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Best Actor Edgar Flores in Sin Nombre Best Screenplay Eran Creevy [...]