German filmmaker Werner Herzog will obtain the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement on the 82nd Venice Movie Competition (August 27-September 6).
The director has screened a number of movies on the competition together with 2009’s Unhealthy Lieutenant: Port Of Name New Orleans.
Of receiving the award, Herzog stated: “I’ve all the time tried to be a Good Soldier of Cinema, and this seems like a medal for my work. Thanks.
“Nevertheless, I’ve not gone into retirement. I work as all the time. A number of weeks in the past, I simply completed a documentary in Africa, Ghost Elephants, and at this second, I’m capturing my subsequent function movie, Bucking Fastard, in Eire. I’m creating an animated movie, based mostly on my novel, The Twilight World, and I’m performing the voice of a creature in Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming animated movie. I’m not executed but.”
Herzog has written, produced and directed over 70 movies together with Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God and Grizzly Man. In 2009, he was nominated for an Oscar in greatest documentary for Encounters At The Finish Of The World and was awarded a lifetime achievement on the European Movie Awards in 2019.
Venice director Alberto Barbera stated: “Herzog’s profession is each fascinating and unsafe as a result of it includes whole dedication and placing oneself on the road to the purpose of bodily danger, the place disaster continuously lurks.”