- Member of the 'Cinéfondation and Short Films' jury at the 55th Cannes International Film Festival in 2002.
- Member of the 'World Dramatic Competition' jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, together with Shunji Iwai and Lucrecia Martel.
- President of the Jury at the 2nd Hanoi International Film Festival in 2012. The jury's decision to give a 'Jury award' to Sword of the Assassin (2012), directed by Vietnamese-American Victor Vu, was controversial, because of public accusations that Vu plagiarized other films.
- Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 9th Vladivostok 'Pacific Meridian' International Film Festival in 2011.
- Member of the German Film Academy, the European Film Academy and since 2000 of the Akademie der Künste Berlin-Brandenburg in the section 'Film- und Medienkunst' [Film and Media Art].
- Director of the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) between 2010 and 2014.
- Worked three times with acclaimed German dramatist/novelist/screenwriter Thomas Strittmatter, who co-wrote the screenplays for his first three feature films Drachenfutter (1987), Winckelmanns Reisen (1990) and Auf Wiedersehen Amerika (1994). Strittmatter collaborated on the research, location scouting, casting and was always present at the shoots. Schütte and Strittmatter wanted to continue their successful working relationship and were in the early stages of planning a feature set in Berlin, when Strittmatter unexpectedly died of heart failure. The three films they created together are probably still their best known works.
- Dean of the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory in Los Angeles since Oct. 2014.
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