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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo No. 23 2017
Sarajevo Honorary Heart — John Cleese (2017)
The Monty Python man — honoured at the 23rd edition in 2017, in the same class as Oliver Stone.
- Recipient
- John Cleese
- Awarded
- 2017 · 23rd edition
- Role
- Actor and film producer
- From
- British
- For
- For his contribution to the art of cinema.
John Cleese received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2017, at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival, in the same class as Oliver Stone. He is the British comedian and actor of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and Life of Brian (1979), co-writer and star of Fawlty Towers, and the screen’s definitive deadpan authority figure.
He was one of the festival’s most photographed honourees of that era — the camera loves a man who can make the audience laugh before he has said anything. His page belongs to the string of comedy and character actors who took the award in the 2010s and reminded everyone that a film festival is allowed to smile.
Also honoured in 2017
- Oliver Stone Film director and producer
Sources & further reading
What they said in Sarajevo
This is a time when the world needs comedians more than ever.