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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo · Lifetime achievement No. 22 2016
Sarajevo Honorary Heart — Robert De Niro (2016)
The first lifetime-achievement Honorary Heart — Robert De Niro, at the 22nd edition in 2016.
- Recipient
- Robert De Niro
- Awarded
- 2016 · 22nd edition
- Role
- Actor, film director and producer
- From
- American
- For
- Lifetime achievement — the first award of its kind at the festival.
Robert De Niro received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2016, at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival — and not just any Honorary Heart. He was the first recipient of the newly created lifetime-achievement variant, the moment the award acquired its second, heavier meaning.
He needs little introduction: the American actor of Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990) and a dozen other landmarks of postwar cinema, and co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, which itself emerged as a response to a city’s wound — New York after 2001 — in a way Sarajevo’s audience understood.
From 2016 the roll changes register. The builders and patrons never stopped appearing, but the lifetime-achievement award added a parallel list of the world’s great film artists, and De Niro’s name opened it.
Also honoured in 2016
- Stephen Frears Film director
- Wolfgang Amadeus Brülhart Swiss diplomat, former cultural counsellor in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sources & further reading
What they said in Sarajevo
I was impressed by the beauty of the city, and I think it's a shame that such a city could be attacked.