Mary Harron Receives the Stockholm Lifetime Bronze Horse and Premieres “Charlie Says”

Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron was honoured with the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award at the 29th Stockholm International Film Festival in November 2018 — the heaviest film award in the world, a 7.3kg Bronze Horse. Harron was recognised for a career that reshaped independent cinema: her debut feature I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), starring Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, announced a singular directorial voice; her second feature, American Psycho (2000) with Christian Bale, became a defining work of American satire.

Harron also used the Stockholm platform to premiere her latest film, Charlie Says (2018), starring Matt Smith as Charles Manson — completing a career-long trilogy of films about extreme, outsider figures. Harron was born in Bracebridge, Ontario, studied at Oxford University, and was the first journalist to interview the Sex Pistols for an American publication. Previous recipients of the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award include Lauren Bacall, David Lynch, Oliver Stone and Susan Sarandon.