EXCLUSIVE: Oscar successful actor Geoffrey Rush is the most recent addition to the Taormina Movie Pageant lineup, and can obtain the occasion’s Excellence Award through the 71st version which runs June 10-14 within the hilltop Sicilian city.
Rush will even current his newest function, The Rule of Jenny Pen, as a part of the official competitors choice. The psychological thriller from director James Ashcroft and co-starring John Lithgow debuted on the pageant circuit final 12 months and can make its Italian premiere in Taormina.
Rush gained the Academy Award for Greatest Actor in 1997 for Shine, and has additionally obtained three BAFTAs, two Golden Globes, a Tony Award, an Emmy Award and 4 Display screen Actors Guild Awards, together with three extra Oscar nominations in different classes.
Tiziana Rocca, Inventive Director of the Taormina Movie Pageant, mentioned: “We’re honored to welcome an artist of Geoffrey Rush’s caliber to Taormina. His presence is a tribute to the greatness of appearing in all its varieties. His dedication, sensitivity and mastery have impressed generations of actors and audiences world wide. Presenting him with the Taormina Excellence Award is a strategy to have fun a residing icon of cinema and make this version of the pageant much more unforgettable.”
Rush joins such different huge names who will attend Taormina this 12 months as Martin Scorsese, Michael Douglas, Catherine Deneuve, Helen Hunt and Olivia Wilde.
The worldwide jury shall be led by Oscar-winner Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, with panel help from British actor Rupert Everett, three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell and extra. Lionsgate’s John Wick spinoff Ballerina will open the pageant.
