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A Golden Icon Award to Sharon Stone at ZFF
The 17th Zurich Film Festival will honour the US actress Sharon Stone with a Golden Icon Award. She will accept the award on Saturday, September 25th. Sharon Stone is the fifth actress in a row to receive the Golden Icon Award.
Previous recipients of the Golden Icon Award include Juliette Binoche, Cate Blanchett, Glenn Close, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Douglas, Richard Gere and Sean Penn.
“It is an honor to engage with the global community and celebrate the profound depth of our art,” says Stone about receiving the Golden Icon Award. “I am thrilled to be recognized in this capacity.”
Sharon Stone with Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s CASINO (1995)
A screening of Martin Scorsese’s thriller CASINO will be shown just after the ceremony. As Ginger in Martin Scorsese’s epic gangster movie CASINO, which sees Stone set out to hustle casino manager Sam «Ace» Rothstein (Robert De Niro). There has never been a stronger female figure in a Scorsese movie. The role brought Stone a Golden Globe and an Oscar Nomination.
Sharon Stone will hold a ZFF Masters where she will offer the public a fascinating insight into her creative process and remarkable career.
Who doesn’t remember her in the femme fatale role of Catherine Tramel in BASIC INSTINCT or in the drama THE MIGHTY (1998) and the comedy THE MUSE (1999)? Recently she has played with great success in TV series, in the Netflix hit production RATCHED (2020), which followed convincing performances in THE NEW POPE (2019) and the HBO series MOSAIC (2017), all after winning the 2004 Emmy for Guest Actress in a Drama Series category for her performance in THE PRACTICE (2004).
“Sharon Stone is a true icon of the seventh art,” explains Christian Jungen, Artistic Director of the Zurich Film Festival. “She is a woman that Hitchcock would have loved. Her distinguishing qualities include an irresistible charm, a great human depth, the talent to play a whole range of roles and the ability to captivate an audience like no other. At a time when the film business was dominated by men, she stood her ground to fight against sexism and in doing so became a major role model for many women in the film business.”
The program of the 17th Zurich Film Festival *Sept 23rd/Oct 3rd* will be published on ZFF website on September 9th.
