Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) unveiled Academy Award-nominated actress Sharon Stone as the recipient of its Golden Icon Award for 2021. Stone will be presented with the award, the most prestigious one handed out by ZFF, at the ceremony held on September 25th.
The Basic Instinct star will be the fifth actress in a row to receive the honor. Juliette Binoche won the award in 2020 while the list of past Golden Icon Award recipients includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cate Blanchett, and Glenn Close, among others.
Following the ceremony, the festival will screen Martin Scorsese’s 1995 classic Casino, which stars Stone in the lead role. The work on the movie earned Stone a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and Academy Award nomination in the same category.
“Sharon Stone is a true icon of the seventh art,” said ZFF’s Artistic Director Christian Jungen in a statement. “She is a woman that Hitchcock would have loved. Her distinguishing qualities include an irresistible charm, a great human depth, the talent to play a whole range of roles, and the ability to captivate an audience like no other.”
Sharon Stone found success as both a movie star and television actress. Besides Basic Instinct and Casino, she had prominent roles in features like Total Recall, Sliver, and The Mighty. Stone’s most recognizable television works include the legal drama The Practice and murder mystery Mosaic. She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress for the former one.
More recently, Stone was part of Netflix’s psychology thriller series Ratched and starred in Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat.
