Tom Hiddleston will receive the Golden Eye Award at the 22nd Zurich Film Festival. The British actor is being honored for his remarkable career across film, television and theatre: From his iconic role as Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to acclaimed performances in THE NIGHT MANAGER, WAR HORSE and MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, as well as his work on the London and New York stages. He will open this year’s festival on September 24 with the European premiere of TENZING, together with Co-Star Willem Dafoe and BAFTA-nominated director filmmaker Jennifer Peedom.
«Tom Hiddleston is one of the most versatile actors of his generation; he brings depth and charisma to his characters,» explains Christian Jungen, CEO of the ZFF. «In TENZING, he shows that you can make your big dreams come true if you believe in yourself and respect others. For his outstanding performance in the film, we will honor him with our Golden Eye Award at the opening of the 22nd Zurich Film Festival, and we look forward to his visit.»
Hiddleston, who portrays Edmund Hillary, is one of the most versatile stage and screen actors of his generation. The British actor rose to worldwide prominence alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Emily Watson as Captain James Nicholls in Steven Spielberg's WAR HORSE (2011), and as the mischievous god Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – a character with a devoted international fanbase that accompanied him for more than a decade, from THOR and several AVENGERS films to his own Disney+ series LOKI. Alongside these roles, he has repeatedly proven himself as a character actor: as F. Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen's MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, as Hank Williams in the biopic I SAW THE LIGHT, and as secret agent Jonathan Pine in the literary adaptation THE NIGHT MANAGER, for which he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor. His work on THE NIGHT MANAGER also earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, both as lead actor and as executive producer. Hiddleston is also regularly appears on the stages of London and New York, captivating audiences time and again in Shakespeare classics (Othello, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing) as well as in works by literary legends such as Anton Chekhov and Harold Pinter – his Broadway role in Pinter's Betrayal earned him a Tony Award nomination in 2020. In TENZING, he now takes on one of the most demanding roles of his career as Edmund Hillary, alongside co-star Genden Phuntsok as Tenzing.
