The Locarno Movie Pageant is ready to honour filmmaker Alexander Payne with the Pardo d’Onore, its honorary award for excellent achievement in cinema.
Payne will even current his movies The Descendants (2011) and Nebraska (2013) at Locarno, and take part in a public dialogue with the competition viewers.
Payne’s movies have collectively received three Academy Awards, three BAFTAs, and eight Golden Globes.
His author and director credit embody Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004), and most just lately the The Holdovers (2023).
The Pardo d’Onore has beforehand been awarded to filmmakers together with Manoel de Oliveira, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Jean-Luc Godard, Concord Korine, and Jane Campion.
Giona A. Nazzaro, inventive director of the Locarno Movie Pageant, stated: “Alexander Payne is an erudite auteur with an encyclopedic cinephile information. Gifted with an unerring sense for the bittersweet sides of human comedy, he’s a filmmaker with sensibilities directly exquisitely classical and trendy.
The 78th version of the Locarno Movie Pageant will happen from August 6-16 August.