Stellan Skarsgård will obtain the Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo on the thirty first Sarajevo Movie Pageant in recognition of his contribution to the movie trade and his performing profession.

Skarsgård created headlines world wide just lately when he shared his views on Ingmar Bergman. Talking at Karlovy Differ Movie Pageant, he stated: “Bergman was manipulative. He was a Nazi through the struggle and the one individual I do know who cried when Hitler died.”

Sarajevo Movie Pageant chief Jovan Marjanović described Skarsgård as “an actor of exceptional depth, energy, and integrity,” and a longtime good friend of Sarajevo. He added: “His profession is stuffed with unforgettable roles in movies that problem, transfer, and stick with audiences. This award is a heartfelt thanks for his excellent contribution to cinema and for the continued assist he has proven to our pageant.”

Skarsgård stated the pageant “stays unwavering and pushed in its purpose to focus on topics of nice consequence, underscored by an intense lust for all times. I really like going there.”

Skarsgård was a curator and one of many patrons of the Katrin Cartlidge Basis – whose scholarships have been awarded at Sarajevo. He offered the muse’s scholarship to Juanita Wilson on the pageant’s fifteenth version in 2009.

Skarsgård, who has greater than 150 TV and movie initiatives on his resumé, started performing on the age of 15 within the Swedish TV collection “Bombi Bitt and I,” and went on to work extensively with the distinguished Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm, whereas additionally showing in a variety of Swedish movies.

His worldwide breakthrough got here in 1982 with Hans Alfredson’s “The Easy-Minded Assassin,” for which Skarsgård gained the Berlinale Silver Bear for greatest actor. He went on to work with different main Scandinavian administrators reminiscent of Bo Widerberg and Kjell Grede.

His first important Hollywood position got here in 1990 when he portrayed a Russian submarine captain in “The Hunt for Purple October.” He went on to star in a number of worldwide productions, together with “Zero Kelvin” (1995), his first of many movies with Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland, and “Breaking the Waves” (1996), which launched his long-running collaboration with Danish auteur Lars von Trier. The latter movie gained the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes and introduced Skarsgård widespread recognition. He later appeared in von Trier’s “Dogville,” “Melancholia” and “Nymphomaniac.”

Skarsgård has since labored with an array of influential filmmakers, together with Gus Van Sant (“Good Will Searching”), Steven Spielberg (“Amistad”), John Frankenheimer (“Ronin”), Paul Schrader (“The Exorcist: Dominion”), David Fincher (“The Woman with the Dragon Tattoo”) and Miloš Forman (“Goya’s Ghosts”).

He entered the blockbuster realm as Bootstrap Invoice Turner in two “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies and charmed world audiences in “Mamma Mia!” and its sequel. He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as physicist Erik Selvig in “Thor” and reprised the position in 4 extra MCU titles.

On tv, in 2015 Skarsgård starred within the poignant BBC collection “River” by Abi Morgan. He then went on to obtain an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe win for his haunting efficiency in HBO’s “Chernobyl.” Within the 2020s, he continues to stability status and fashionable work with a voice cameo in “The Simpsons,” a number one position in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” movies and acclaimed turns in “Andor” and the Cannes 2025 Grand Prix winner “Sentimental Worth.”

The thirty first Sarajevo Movie Pageant will happen from Aug. 15 to 22.