Zurich Film Festival: Stars line up for awards

Kingsley as Itzhak Stern in Schindler's List

Ben Kingsley and Liam Neeson will be joining Diane Kruger, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Eddie Redmayne for the up-and-coming 18^th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) at the end of September.

Kingsley will be honoured with the Golden Icon and providing an insight into the wonderful world of film and his incredible characters which range from Ghandi to Itzhak Stern in Schindler’s List, the psychotic Don Logan in Sexy Beast, and now Salvador Dali which will be premiering this month and at ZFF in Daliland.

Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger will be presenting their latest film Marlowe, a film noir thriller by Oscar winner Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) Kruger plays a femme fatale who hires a private detective, Philip Marlowe (Neeson) to shadow her ex-husband in 1930s Hollywood.

English film score composer Rachel Portman will also be honoured with a Career Achievement Award. Portman is the first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score for Emma by Douglas McGrath starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor.  She was also the first female composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award, which she received for the film Bessie by Dee Rees. She has received two further Academy Nominations for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat by Lasse Hallström, which also earned her a Golden Globe Nomination as well as Bafta nominations for Oranges are not the only fruit and The Woman in Black.

Neesom as Oskar in Schindler's List

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Eddie Redmayne will receive a Golden Eye for their careers and the Green Carpet will also be rolled out for Swiss film. The programme includes 146 films from 49 countries and includes 49 debut works. A record 38 films will be screened as World or European premieres.

The 18th Zurich Film Festival takes place from September 22 until October 2, 2022.

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