The Locarno Film Festival is set to honour filmmaker Alexander Payne with the Pardo d’Onore, its honorary award for outstanding achievement in c
The Locarno Film Festival is set to honour filmmaker Alexander Payne with the Pardo d’Onore, its honorary award for outstanding achievement in cinema.
Payne will also present his films The Descendants (2011) and Nebraska (2013) at Locarno, and participate in a public discussion with the festival audience.
Payne’s films have collectively won three Academy Awards, three BAFTAs, and eight Golden Globes.
His writer and director credits include Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004), and most recently the The Holdovers (2023).
The Pardo d’Onore has previously been awarded to filmmakers including Manoel de Oliveira, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Jean-Luc Godard, Harmony Korine, and Jane Campion.
Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, said: “Alexander Payne is an erudite auteur with an encyclopedic cinephile knowledge. Gifted with an unerring sense for the bittersweet facets of human comedy, he is a filmmaker with sensibilities at once exquisitely classical and newfangled.
The 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival will take place from August 6-16 August.
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