Trieste Science+Fiction Festival announces that the Lifetime Achievement Silver Urania Award 2016 will be awarded to Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, world-renowned for his performance in Blade Runner by Ridley Scott. Rutger Hauer will attend Trieste’s event and will receive the award on Friday, November 4th at the official ceremony in the Tripcovich Hall.
«I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… Time to die.»
It is the famous monologue uttered by replicant Roy Batty – alias Rutger Hauer – in Blade Runner by Ridley Scott. In the BBC’s documentary Dangerous Days: On the Edge of Blade Runner, Hauer, director Ridley Scott and screenwriter David Peoples declared that it was the Dutch actor who himself wrote the monologue of one of the most memorable and touching sequences in the history of cinema.
With that role, Rutger Hauer became an absolute icon of modern cinematographic science fiction.
Among the over eighty films played by Rutger Hauer: Turkish Delight and Kitty Tippel by Paul Verhoeven, Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf by André Delvaux, Nighthawks by Bruce Malmuth, Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, Eureka by Nicholas Roeg, Osterman Weekend by Sam Peckinpah, Ladyhawke by Richard Donner, The Hitcher by Robert Harmon, La leggenda del santo bevitore by Ermanno Olmi, Blind Fury by Phillip Noyce, In una notte di chiaro di luna by Lina Wertmüller, Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Fran Rubel Kuzui, I banchieri di Dio – Il caso Calvi by Giuseppe Ferrara, Confessions of a dangerous mind by George Clooney, Dracula III – Legacy by Patrick Lussier, Sin City by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, Batman Begins by Christopher Nolan, Goal II – Living the dream by Jaume Collet-Serra, Dracula 3D by Dario Argento, 2047 – Sights of Death by Alessandro Capone.
