Get the latest gossip

CAA’s Roeg Sutherland To Receive Zurich Film Festival’s Game Changer Award

Co-Head of CAA’s Media Finance and its International Film Group, will be presented with award during Zurich Summit, in October within framework 20th Zurich Film Festival

“His impressive client list includes Oscar winners, nominees, and auteurs like Nadine Labaki, who he signed by specifically flying to Lebanon to meet the Capernaum filmmaker in person – one of my favorite anecdotes about Roeg highlighting his commitment and dedication.” Clients include Ladj Ly ( Les Misérables), Sam Mendes ( 1917), Rian Johnson ( Knives Out), Walter Salles ( I’m Still Here), Justine Triet ( Anatomy of a Fall); Jacques Audiard ( Emilia Perez); Roland Emmerich ( Midway); Martin McDonagh ( Banshees of Inisherin); Alejandro González Iñárritu ( The Revenant, Birdman); Ana Lily Amirpour ( Bad Batch); James Gray (Ad Astra, Lost City of Z); Labaki ( Capernaum); Juan Antonio Bayona ( A Monster Calls); Claire Denis ( High Life); Dan Gilroy ( Roman J. Israel, Nightcrawler); Paul Thomas Anderson ( Licorice Pizza); Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty); Darren Aronofsky ( The Wrestler, Black Swan); Gaspar Noé ( Climax); Terrence Malick ( A Hidden Life), Yann Demange ( ’71); Karim Aïnouz ( Invisible); Julian Schnabel ( In The Hand of Dante); Joe Talbot ( The Last Black Man In San Francisco); Khalil Joseph ( BLKNWS); and Steve McQueen ( 12 Years A Slave), plus Arthur Jafa and Morten Tyldum among others. He has also led the packaging, financing and sales of such projects as the Best Picture Academy Award-winning Coda, Conclave, Hit Man, May December, The Holdovers, Longlegs, The Trial of the Chicago Seven, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Pieces of a woman, The father, Greyhound, Malcolm & Marie, 12 Years A Slave, Her, Sicario, Nocturnal Animals, and You Were Never Really Here among others.

Get the Android app