Nebraska director Alexander Payne will obtain the Pardo d’Onore on the Locarno Movie Competition.
The American filmmaker can be introduced with the honorary leopard on Friday, August 15. He can even current his 2011 pic The Descendants and 2013 title Nebraska and take part in a public dialogue.
Payne, a writer-director additionally behind the likes of Sideway and The Holdovers, has gained two Academy Award for Greatest Tailored Screenplay and been nominated for Greatest Director on three events.
After learning filmmaking at UCLA, Payne wrote and directed politically-charged comedy Citizen Ruth, starring Laura Dern, in 1996. It premiered at Sundance and led to a run of seven influential movies, which have starred the likes of Paul Giamatti, Reese Witherspoon and Jack Nicholson.
“Alexander Payne is an erudite auteur with an encyclopaedic cinephile data,” stated Giona A. Nazzaro, Creative Director of the Locarno Movie Competition. “Gifted with an unerring sense for the bittersweet sides of human comedy, he’s a filmmaker with sensibilities without delay exquisitely classical and fashionable.
“An impeccable director of actors, who has labored with such names as Jack Nicholson, George Clooney, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Matt Damon, Bruce Dern and Paul Giamatti, in Payne we discover a data of the savoir-faire of Hollywood cinema, its poetry, and its uniqueness… Creator of a novel filmography by which he has at all times addressed the complexities of the human situation with a smile in a continuing dialogue with audiences worldwide.”
Earlier winners of the Pardo d’Onore embrace Manoel de Oliveira, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, Terry Gilliam, Alexander Sokurov, William Friedkin, Alain Tanner, Jia Zhang-ke, Leos Carax, Werner Herzog, Agnès Varda, Michael Cimino, Marco Bellocchio, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jean-Marie Straub, Todd Haynes, Bruno Dumont, John Waters, John Landis, Kelly Reichardt, Concord Korine and Jane Campion.
Locarno can be held this yr from August 6-16 in Switzerland.
