Curated playlist
Honorary Golden Bear recipients
- Martin ScorseseMartin Scorsese's love of movies began because asthma kept him out of games.
- Steven SpielbergSteven Spielberg walked into Universal Studios without a pass, and the guard waved him in.
- Ian McKellenIan McKellen came out as gay on BBC radio in 1988, while Parliament weighed Section 28.
- James StewartJames Stewart gave his Oscar to his father for the shop window.
- Meryl StreepDino De Laurentiis insulted Meryl Streep in Italian, not knowing she spoke it. She answered him in Italian too.
- Kirk DouglasKirk Douglas insisted on giving blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo an on-screen credit for Spartacus.
- Willem DafoeWillem Dafoe's screen career began with a part that almost nobody saw. In 1980 he spent the first three months of an eight-month shoot on Michael Cimino's epic Western Heaven's Gate, playing a cockfighter who worked for the character…
- Elia KazanIn 1952, Elia Kazan gave a congressional committee the names of eight former colleagues.
- Dustin HoffmanWhen Dustin Hoffman told his family he wanted to be an actor, his Aunt Pearl had a ready answer. "You can't be an actor. You are not good-looking enough." Hoffman was born in Los Angeles in 1937, and her prediction aged badly. He went on…
- Alec GuinnessAlec Guinness privately called Star Wars "fairy-tale rubbish" in letters to friends.
- Helen MirrenDame Helen Mirren was born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff on the 26th of July 1945, at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in the Hammersmith district of London. Neither the first name nor the surname on that record would last. The woman who…