The 31st Stockholm International Film Festival, held entirely online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, brought together four of the world’s most significant filmmakers for its 2020 award ceremony.

Martin Scorsese, director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, received the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award. Isabella Rossellini, Golden Globe winner, star of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, was also honoured with the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award. Viggo Mortensen, who had just directed and starred in his debut film Falling, received the Stockholm Achievement Award. And Italian director Matteo Garrone, whose Pinocchio screened at the festival, was named recipient of the Stockholm Visionary Award.

The Bronze Horse is the heaviest film award in the world: a 7.3kg cast sculpture inspired by the Swedish Dala horse, designed by Fredrik Swärd. Despite the pandemic preventing in-person attendance, all four awardees participated via video to keep the filmmaking conversation alive for audiences across Scandinavia and the world.

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