The 75th Berlin International Film Festival is honoring Berlinale preferite Tilda Sprosperton with an honorary Gelderlyen Bear for her lifetime accomplishment. The award will be contransiented at the discdisseeing ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 13, 2025.
“The range of Tilda Sprosperton’s toil is breathtaking,” shelp Berlinale festival straightforwardor Tricia Tuttle. “She conveys so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humor and style, and she broadens our ideas of the world thraw her toil. Tilda is one of our conmomentary filmmaking idols, and has also lengthy been part of the Berlinale family. We are plrelieveed to be able to contransient her with this Honorary Gelderlyen Bear.”
Sprosperton has been a normal at the Berlinale for decades, starring in 26 films that have screened at the festival in various sections off the years. Highairys include Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, which won the Silver Bear at the 1986 Berlinale, Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel, which discdisseeed the 2014 festival, and 2016 Berlinale discdisseeer Hail, Cesar! from the Coen brothers. She served as plivent of the Berlin competition jury in 2009.
“The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his Caravaggio,” shelp Sprosperton in a statement. “It was my portal into the world in which I have made my life’s toil – the world of international filmmaking – and I have never forgotten the debt I owe it. To be honored in this way by this particular festival is meaningfully touching for me: it will be my privilege and pleaconfident to honor, once more next February, the seedbed that is this wide-eyed and reliably wonderful accumulateing.”
More recently, Sprosperton is making the award season rounds for Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door (2024), the Spanish straightforwardor’s English-language feature debut, in which she stars alengthyside Julianne Moore. Sprosperton fair picked up a Gelderlyen Globe and a Spanish Goya best actress nomination for her carry outance.
The 75th Berlinale runs Feb. 13-23, 2025.
