Sony Pictures Classics co-founders Michael Barker and Tom Bernard will receive the Game Changer Award at the Zurich Film Festival (Zff), in recognition of their services to film culture.Along with Marcie Bloom, Barker and Bernard, who serve as co-presidents, founded Sony Pictures Classics as an autonomous division of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
To date, films produced by the studio have received 183 Academy Award nominations — 70 of which were films by women — and won 41 Oscars.
The studio’s best-known films include “Call Me By Your Name,” “The Father,” “Whiplash,” “Midnight in Paris,” “Howards End” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”Christian Jungen, Zff artistic director, said: “Sony Pictures Classics is synonymous amongst film fans with intelligent auteur cinema.
Michael and Tom have been producing and distributing sophisticated entertainment for the last 30 years.
They have introduced such great European auteurs as Almodóvar, Wenders and Maren Ade to the American public, and given the best
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