Overview

• The Zurich Film Festival has officially selected Cumberbatch as this year’s Goldenes Auge awardee.
• He will personally accept the prize on August 29, just weeks before the festival opens on September 25.
• Festival director Christian Jungen praised Cumberbatch as one of the most versatile character actors of his generation.
• In his self-produced drama The Thing With Feathers, Cumberbatch portrays a father of two navigating life after his wife’s death.
• Cumberbatch gained global acclaim for the BBC’s Sherlock and brought the dragon Smaug to life with voice work and motion capture in the Hobbit trilogy.