{"id":2157504,"date":"2025-11-14T22:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2157504"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:23:17","slug":"michelle-yeoh-to-be-honored-at-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michelle-yeoh-to-be-honored-at-berlin-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Yeoh to be honored at Berlin Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span class=\"story_dl\">Nov. 14 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> <i>Wicked <\/i>actress Michelle Yeoh is set to receive the Honorary Golden Bear during the Berlin International Film Festival&#8217;s opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Recipients, who have also included Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg and Tilda Swinton, are chosen for their enduring impact on the film industry, a press release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Michelle Yeoh is a visionary artist and performer whose work defies boundaries &#8212; whether geographic, linguistic or cinematic,&#8221; director Tricia Tuttle said in a statement. &#8220;Her commanding presence, fearless artistic choices and unmistakable style have left a lasting impression on generations of filmmakers and fans at the Berlinale and across the globe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yeoh&#8217;s popularity skyrocketed after she starred in the 1997 film <i>Tomorrow Never Dies. <\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Michelle Yeoh attends the Directors Guild of America Awards in February. File Photo by Chris Chew\/UPI\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"569\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/p3uGor4osPANkACoTbJiRQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTEzNTA7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/united_press_international_articles_356\/3e71faed56d134a7143c8f18928430f6\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Michelle Yeoh attends the Directors Guild of America Awards in February. File Photo by Chris Chew\/UPI<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She is<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRCUXiTDCjF\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:also well-known;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> also well-known<\/a> for her roles in <i>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Everything Everywhere All at Once <\/i>and, more recently <i>Wicked. <\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Michelle Yeoh arrives on the red carpet at Paramount+'s &quot;Star Trek: Section 31&quot; premiere in January. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"679\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/5smWQlhiwN3wrHlf9gsplA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTExMzE7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/united_press_international_articles_356\/6ed6b4eebded63951729e8649fb5bfa6\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Michelle Yeoh arrives on the red carpet at Paramount+&#8217;s &#8220;Star Trek: Section 31&#8221; premiere in January. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Academy Award winning actress reprises her role as Madame Morrible in <i>Wicked: For Good<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Berlin has always held a special place in my heart,&#8221; Yeoh said in a statement. &#8220;It was one of the first festivals to embrace my work with such warmth and generosity. Returning after all these years, in recognition of my journey in cinema, feels truly meaningful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Michelle Yeoh arrives on the red carpet for the National Board of Review Gala in January. File Photo by Derek French\/UPI\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/OHI7lB4KIyAashftHL1Krw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/united_press_international_articles_356\/e0425c42d01d3fdb7419d0456051baca\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Michelle Yeoh arrives on the red carpet for the National Board of Review Gala in January. File Photo by Derek French\/UPI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 14 (UPI) &#8212; Wicked actress Michelle Yeoh is set to receive the Honorary Golden Bear during the Berlin International Film Festival&#8217;s opening ceremony. Recipients, who have also included Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg and Tilda Swinton, are chosen for their enduring impact on the film industry, a press release states. &#8220;Michelle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2157505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[305425,350033,309280,351288],"class_list":["post-2157504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-michelle-yeoh","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-tilda-swinton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Michelle-Yeoh-to-be-honored-at-Berlin-Film-Festival.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157506,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157504\/revisions\/2157506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}