US filmmaker Alexander Payne will obtain the honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo award on the 2024 Sarajevo Movie Competition (August 16-23).
Payne will current a masterclass on the competition about movie manufacturing, directing and writing in addition to different elements of his profession. He may also current a screening of his 2004 comedy-drama Sideways, which gained the Oscar for finest tailored screenplay.
He will probably be joined by longtime collaborator Jim Taylor, who wrote Payne’s movies Election, About Schmidt and Sideways, and produced 2011’s The Descendants.
Payne beforehand attended the competition in 2005, presenting his movies in a ‘Tribute to’ programme. His final characteristic The Holdovers obtained 5 Oscar nominations, successful finest supporting actress for Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph.
“It feels becoming to award Alexander Payne with Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo as a result of within the centre of all his tales are individuals with the large coronary heart,” mentioned Sarajevo director Jovan Marjanovic.
Earlier recipients of the honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo award embody Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro and Isabelle Huppert, in addition to final 12 months’s awardees Mark Cousins, Lynne Ramsay and Charlie Kaufman.
Sarajevo unveiled its competitors sections final week, with 5 characteristic world premieres throughout the competitors and out of competitors sections.