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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo No. 25 2019
Sarajevo Honorary Heart — Alejandro González Iñárritu (2019)
The Mexican director of Birdman and The Revenant — honoured at the 25th edition in 2019.
- Recipient
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Awarded
- 2019 · 25th edition
- Role
- Film director
- From
- Mexican
- For
- For his contribution to the art of cinema.
Alejandro González Iñárritu received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2019, at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival, in a class of four that also included Isabelle Huppert, Paweł Pawlikowski and Tim Roth. He is the Mexican director of Amores Perros (2000), Birdman (2014) and The Revenant (2015) — the back-to-back Best Director Oscars of 2015 and 2016 are a rare feat in recent Academy history.
He arrived as one of the most decorated working directors of his generation. The 2019 class was the festival’s twenty-fifth-year statement: four international names at the top of world film, given together.
Also honoured in 2019
- Isabelle Huppert Actress
- Paweł Pawlikowski Film director
- Tim Roth Actor and film director
Sources & further reading
What they said in Sarajevo
The Heart of Sarajevo carries extra weight because of everything connected to this festival.