Tilda SWINTON honored with the Honorary Golden Bear at berlinale

Tilda SWINTON, CHANEL Ambassador honored with the Honorary Golden Bear, wore a custom navy blue coat dress embroidered with pearls and crystals and embellished with feathers and jewelled buttons.

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The 75th Berlin International Film Festival awarded Scottish actress Tilda Swinton the Honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievements, during the Opening Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 13, 2025.

“The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking. To cinema she brings so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humour and style, and she expands our ideas of the world through her work. Tilda is one of our modern filmmaking idols, and has also long been part of the Berlinale family. We are delighted to be able to present her with this Honorary Golden Bear,” says Festival Director Tricia Tuttle.

“The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his Caravaggio. It was my portal into the world in which I have made my life’s work - the world of international filmmaking - and I have never forgotten the debt I owe it. To be honoured in this way by this particular festival is deeply touching for me: it will be my privilege and pleasure to celebrate, once more next February, the seedbed that is this wide-eyed and reliably wonderful gathering,” says Tilda Swinton.

Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton has been closely linked to the Berlin International Film Festival for many years, serving as the President of the International Jury in 2009 and starring in 26 films in the festival programme ranging from Caravaggio, which won the Silver Bear for the 1986 Berlinale, The Beach (2000), Derek (2008), Julia (2008), The Garden(1991), and Last and First Men (2020).