Iconic Filmmaker Werner Herzog Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at the 82nd Venice Film Festival
German director Werner Herzog will receive a Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The acclaimed director of Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man will be celebrated during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, which takes place from August 27 to September 6.
“I feel deeply honored to receive a Lifetime Achievement Honorary Golden Lion from the Venice Biennale. I have always tried to be a Good Soldier of Cinema, and this feels like a medal for my work,” Herzog remarked. “However, I have not gone into retirement. I work as always.”
Herzog’s extensive filmography includes notable works such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Signs of Life, Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call: New Orleans, Nosferatu the Vampyre, and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. In addition to his directing, he has appeared as an actor in Jack Reacher and Disney+’s The Mandalorian. He recently completed a new documentary titled Ghost Elephants, is currently filming a feature called Bucking Fastard, is developing an animated adaptation of his novel The Twilight World, and provided voice work for Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming animated film, The Valley.
Alberto Barbera, the director of the Venice Film Festival, commended Herzog as one of the key innovators of New German Cinema. “Herzog has never ceased testing the limits of film language, challenging the traditional distinction between documentary and fiction,” Barbera remarked. “A brilliant narrator of unusual stories, Herzog embodies the last heir of the great tradition of German romanticism, a visionary humanist, and a tireless explorer.”
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