Steven Spielberg will receive the Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival

Steven Spielberg will receive a tribute and will be honored with the honorary Golden Bear of the 73rd edition of the Berlin Film Festival for his long career as a director, producer and screenwriter.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
22 November 2022 Tuesday 11:50
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Steven Spielberg will receive the Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival

Steven Spielberg will receive a tribute and will be honored with the honorary Golden Bear of the 73rd edition of the Berlin Film Festival for his long career as a director, producer and screenwriter. Precisely, his latest film, The Fabelmans, an autobiographical look at what it means to grow up as a movie-obsessed teenager, will also be seen in the competition, which will be held from February 16 to 26, 2023. Universal Pictures will premiere the film film starring Michelle Williams and Paul Dano - originally scheduled for later this year - in Spanish cinemas on February 10.

"With an incredible career, Steven Spielberg has not only inspired generations of viewers around the world, but has also given a new meaning to 'cinema' as the factory of dreams", said the directors of the Berlinale Mariette Rissenbeek. and Carlo Chatrian in a statement.

“Whether in the eternal magical world of adolescents or as our reality forever shaped by history: his films transport us to another level where the screen provides the right surface to unleash our emotions. If the Berlinale 2023 represents a new beginning, we could not find a better start than the one offered by Spielberg's great work ”, they add.

Throughout a long and glorious career, Spielberg has been nominated for a Hollywood Academy Award a total of 19 times and has won three golden statuettes: two as director and best film for Schindler's List and another as director for Saving Private Ryan. In 1987 he also received an Irving Thalberg Memorial Award. "He is one of the most recognized filmmakers in the world" and "most successful of all time" and his work, with more than a hundred films and series, is "unique for its diversity in the history of international cinema of the last sixty years" , highlights the statement.

As part of this tribute to Hollywood's 'King Midas', the Berlinale will screen several of the most outstanding titles in the director's filmography, who will be 76 years old on December 18.

His distinctions include numerous Golden Globes and Emmys for his film work, as well as awards for his social commitment. For example, in 1998 he received the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Shoah Foundation he created and for Schindler's List. Queen Elizabeth II named him a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 2015 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then US President Barack Obama.