The Locarno Movie Competition is about 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 gained three Academy Awards, three BAFTAs, and eight Golden Globes.
His author and director credit embody Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004), and most 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 Competition, 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 without delay exquisitely classical and fashionable.
The 78th version of the Locarno Movie Competition will happen from August 6-16 August.