Stockholm Film Festival Honors Susan Sarandon with Lifetime Achievement Award

Stage and screen star Susan Sarandon will be the 2009 recipient of the Stockholm Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award.  The actress will be presented the prize during the festival in Sweden, which runs November 18-29.  This will mark the Festival's 20th anniversary.

Also honored at the Festival will be director/producer Luc Besson who will be receiving the Visionary Award.

175 films from 53 countries will be screened at this year's festival, including seven world premieres. Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" will launch the Festival, which will close with Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air."  Additional screenings include John Hillcoat's "The Road," Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," Tarik Saleh's "Metropia," Jaco van Dormael's "Mr Nobody," Xavier Dolan's "I Killed My Mother," Cherien Dabis' "Amreeka" and Giorgios Lanthimos' "Dogtooth." 

Susan Sarandon was last seen on Broadway opposite Geoffrey Rush in the critically acclaimed Exit the King, which played at limited engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 2009.  She has also appeared on Broadway in An Evening with Richard Nixon and... Additional theater credits include Extremities for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, for which she also received a Drama Desk nod. Sarandon received five Academy Award nominations for best actress, in Atlantic City (1981), Thelma & Louise (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), and The Client (1994), finally winning in 1995 for Dead Man Walking. Her other movies include Stepmom (1998), Anywhere but Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999), The Banger Sisters (2002), Shall We Dance (2004), Alfie (2004), Romance & Cigarettes (2005), Elizabethtown (2005) and Enchanted (2007).