Tilda Swinton: championing talent, regardless of gender | Rebecca Nicholson
The star was the first to welcome the abolition of male and female awards at the Berlin film festival
by Rebecca Nicholson
Sep 05, 2020
3 minutes
It is rare that a move being described as “eminently sensible” is newsworthy; still, at the Venice film festival last week, this is how Tilda Swinton referred to the fact that the Berlin film festival will no longer be handing out acting awards by gender.
“I think it’s pretty much inevitable that everybody will follow. It’s just obvious to me,” she said. Cate Blanchett also expressed her support, explaining that she prefers to be known as an actor. “I am of the generation where the word actress was used almost always in
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