Sharon Stone To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award At Taormina

Italy’s Taormina Film Festival will honor Sharon Stone with a Golden Cariddi for Lifetime Achievement at is upcoming 70th edition this month.

The actress will follow in the footsteps of previous honorees 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 and Monica Vitti.

Stone, who will receive the award on the closing night of the festival, will also participate in an on-stage conversation on her career as part of honor.

Since her big screen debut in Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories in 1980, Stone has ratcheted up more than 150 film and TV credits, with highlights including Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Sliver and Casino, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress and an Oscar nomination.

It will mark Stone’s first appearance in Taormina which hosted the Italian premiere for Basic Instinct in 1992.

The Taormina Lifetime Achievement award joins a raft of past honors for Stone including the title of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2005 in France, the Gold Medal of Merit of the Italian Red Cross in Italy in 2021, and the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters again in France.

The festival runs from July 13 to 19.