Sharon Stone will light up the closing night of the 70th edition of the Taormina Film Festival

The Hollywood star will receive the Golden Cariddi for Lifetime Achievement on the closing night at the 70th edition of the Taormina Film Festival

Sharon Stone will light up the closing night of the 70th edition of the Taormina Film Festival, which will present her with the Cariddi d’oro alla carriera (Golden Cariddi for Lifetime Achievement), the glorious honour that over the years has been awarded to the leading figures of Italian and international cinema, to talents such as Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, Richard Gere, Colin Firth, Isabelle Huppert, Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, just to name a few.

The internationally recognised actress and producer will meet the press and the audience on the occasion of a conversation on how she redefined what it meant to be a woman on screen, becoming a global cultural icon over the decades. Sharon Stone’s appearance in Taormina – curated by Marco Fallanca – marks her first attendance at the festival, which hosted Basic Instinct’s Italian premiere in 1992.

After her debut in 1980 with a cult cameo in Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories, Stone became undisputedly famous worldwide in the ‘90s with films such as Total Recall, in which she acted opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, and especially with the iconic role of Catherine Tramell in Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct, in Phillip Noyce’s thriller Sliver, in the western The Quick and the Dead opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and in Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Casino, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress and an Oscar nomination.

Over the years she continued to work both in cinema and on TV, earning two Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for Peter Chelsom’s The Mighty in 1999 and Albert Brooks’ The Muse in 2000, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for The Practice in 2004. In 2014 Stone was in the cast of the Italian film Un ragazzo d’oro, directed by Pupi Avati, and, in 2020, she appeared as herself in an introduction to the fifth episode of Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope.

Sharon Stone has always been committed to issues relating to civil rights and for nearly 30 years has served as spokesperson of amfAR, founded by Elizabeth Taylor to support research against AIDS. For her charity projects around the world, she has been honoured with a Nobel peace Summit Award, a Harvard Humanitarian Award, a Human Rights Campaign Humanitarian Award and an Einstein Spirit of Achievement Award among many other accolades.

In 2005, the actress was also awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, in 2018 she received the Gold Medal of Merit of the Italian Red Cross and in 2021 she has been made Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters again in France.



TAORMINA FILM FESTIVAL 2024
70th Edition, July 12-19

Taormina Film Festival is an event promoted by the Sicilian Regional Authority - Department of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment and organized by Fondazione Taormina Arte Sicilia with the support of the Sicilia Film Commission, the Municipality of Taormina and of the Ministry of Culture – General Directorate for Cinema and Audiovisual (MiC)