Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg might be honoured for his life’s work on the Berlin International Film Festival in February.
Festival organisers mentioned Tuesday that the 75-year-old American director, producer and screenwriter might be awarded an honorary Golden Bear, the annual occasion’s high prize, for a physique of labor that contains greater than 100 motion pictures and sequence.
The a number of Oscar winner’s work “is unique in the history of international cinema of the past 60 years for its immense variety,” the pageant mentioned.
Spielberg’s productions have included every part from “E.T.” to “Schindler’s List”. The Berlin festival will screen his latest film, “The Fabelmans.”
“With an unbelievable profession, Steven Spielberg has not solely enchanted generations of viewers everywhere in the world, however has additionally given a brand new which means to the cinema’ because the manufacturing facility of desires,” festival co-directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian said in a statement.
“Be it within the eternal magic world of youngsters or within the actuality that historical past has carved perpetually, his motion pictures take us to a special degree, the place the massive display screen turns into the sufficient floor for our feelings to be fulfilled.” The Berlin occasion, the primary of the yr’s main European film festivals, will run from February 16 to 26.