Sony Pictures Classics’ Michael Barker and Tom Bernard to receive Zurich honour

Co-founders to receive festival’s Game Changer Award.Zurich Film Festival is to honour Sony Pictures Classics co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard with its Game Changer Award.The Game Changer Award is presented during the festival to recognise outstanding achievements in the film industry.

It comes as Sony Pictures Classics, which was founded by Barker and Bernard, marks its 30 year anniversary this year.To date, Sony Pictures Classics has received 183 Academy Award nominations and scooped 41 Academy Awards.The studio’s best-known films includes titles like Call Me By Your Name, The Father, Whiplash, Midnight In Paris, Howards End and Crouching Tiger,

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