The celebrity jury for the GOLDEN CAMERA from HÖRZU judged the nominees in several categories: Find all the prize winners of the 44th GOLDEN CAMERA from HÖRZU right here.
Clint Eastwood is the quintessential filmmaker. He has cultivated cinema for over four decades in his diversity as an actor, director and producer. And he has been consistent in doing it as well. Clint Eastwood is a constant presence. And whatever he takes on is a guarantee for high artistic quality. He is, without a doubt, one of the most eclectic actors and one of the most productive and versatile directors that the film industry has ever experienced.
66 films as an actor. 33 films as a director. There is no genre that Eastwood has left untouched. He has made films for young and old, men and women, for the action-buffs and those who like to bask in grand emotion. Clint Eastwood is not an artist who is dedicated to one particular niche. His affection has always been directed to the entire audience.
His career began in 1955, when he appeared in a monster film as an anonymous mime. Eastwood didn’t achieve superstar fame before the age of 41, in the 1971 film “Dirty Harry”. With this role, Eastwood established the poster character of the tough and unconventional detective. Harry Calahan became an immortal cult figure.
Eastwood didn’t stop there. Nor did he let himself be lulled by the many awards that he received. He started to intervene, to liberate himself from the dependence as an actor and to make his own films. Controversial themes. Themes that nobody had taken into account. Themes whose working-class heroes often came from the bottom of the ladder, just like he did.
His high demands and his quest for high standards were a constant conflict for the profit-oriented skeptics in the film studios. He was able, just as constantly, to counter their doubts with his continual success in both an artistic as well as a commercial sense. His work convinced the bosses time and time again.
Thereby, the budgets of his films were never obscenely large. Eastwood’s works never gobbled up hundreds of millions. His motto might very well be: The star is the story! A story – and that has always meant a lot to him – that hadn’t been told hundreds of times before.
Clint Eastwood has sustainably influenced cinematic art. The deserved honor of THE GOLDEN CAMERA from HÖRZU is being awarded to him for his lifetime achievement.
