Already the owner of an Oscar, an Emmy, and two European Film Awards, Susanne Bier is adding another major honor to her list of accolades. The Danish writer-director is set to receive the European Film Academy’s lifetime honor, the European Achievement in World Cinema Award. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news.
The first woman director to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and a European Film Award, Bier’s most recent credits include Netflix smash “Bird Box” and HBO’s Nicole Kidman-starrer “The Undoing.” She won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, now known as Best International Feature Film, in 2011 for thriller “In a Better World,” and took home an Emmy in 2016 for AMC spy series “The Night Manager.”
Bier is currently filming “The First Lady,” a Showtime drama that focuses on the lives of American first ladies and counts Viola Davis among its cast. The Oscar winner will be portraying Michelle Obama.
Bier will receive her European Achievement in World Cinema Award at the 2021 European Film Awards ceremony, which is being held December 11 in Berlin.
