LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron, known for films such as “Gravity”, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and “Roma”, will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival.
The film festival will begin on August 7 in Locarno, Switzerland and end on August 17.
Cuaron will be presented with the award on August 11, which is considered a tribute to “film personalities with extraordinary careers.”
According to the festival’s official website, the event will be held at the Swiss city’s Piazza Grande, where viewers will be able to watch a panel discussion with him earlier in the day.
Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, described Cuaron as “a visionary writer with a playful and unbridled imagination”.
“By combining the experimental spirit with the diversity of the great popular writers, he has managed to capture the imagination and hearts of millions of viewers, and convey the same wonder he himself experienced as a child and adolescent immersed in the glow of classic Mexican cinema.”
“From coming-of-age novels to science fiction, from melodramas to grand sagas such as ‘Harry Potter,’ Alfonso Cuaron has reinvented himself as an artist with each new film, always at the service of the pleasure of cinema, thus creating truly multifaceted masterpieces,” Nazarro said in a statement.
The filmmaker has won two Academy Awards for the 2013 science-fiction thriller “Gravity” and three for 2018’s “Roma,” his black-and-white semi-autographic film about his upbringing in Mexico City. He won the Academy Award for best director for both films.
Cuaron’s upcoming project is the Apple TV series “Disclaimer”, a seven-part psychological thriller starring Cate Blanchett, Sacha Baron Cohen and Kevin Kline.
Director Jane Campion, Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan, producer Stacey Sher and Ben Burtt, the man who voiced iconic characters R2-D2, ET and Wall-E, will also be honoured at the Locarno Film Festival.
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