Berlin movie fest provides director Steven Spielberg lifetime achievement award

Steven Spielberg shall be honoured for his life’s work on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition in February.

Competition organisers stated on Tuesday (Nov 22) that the 75-year-old American director, producer and screenwriter shall be awarded an honorary Golden Bear, the annual occasion’s prime prize, for a physique of labor that includes greater than 100 films and sequence.

The a number of Oscar winner’s work “is exclusive within the historical past of worldwide cinema of the previous 60 years for its immense selection”, the pageant stated.

Spielberg’s productions have included every part from E.T. to Schindler’s Checklist. The Berlin pageant will display screen his newest movie, The Fabelmans.

“With an unimaginable profession, Steven Spielberg has not solely enchanted generations of viewers everywhere in the world, however has additionally given a brand new that means to the ‘cinema’ because the manufacturing facility of goals,” pageant co-directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian stated in a press release.

“Be it within the eternal magic world of youngsters or within the actuality that historical past has carved perpetually, his films take us to a special stage, the place the large display screen turns into the satisfactory floor for our feelings to be fulfilled.”

The Berlin occasion, the primary of the 12 months’s main European movie festivals, will run from Feb 16 to 26.