Emma Thompson to receive award at Locarno Film Festival
British actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson has been chosen to receive the Locarno Film Festival's Leopard Club Award. This will be presented to her on August 8 on the Piazza Grande.
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Thompson “boasts an extraordinary career as an actor, screenwriter and producer for film and television,” the Locarno Film Festival wrote.
She has won many awards throughout her career, including an Oscar for Best Actress in Howards End (1992), a film that made her internationally known. In 1996, she won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for the film adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility.
Thompson is also known to the general public for playing Divination professor Sybill Trelawney in the Harry Potter saga.
In Locarno, on August 8 on the Piazza Grande, after the awards ceremony there will be the world premiere screening of Brian Kirk’s thriller The Dead of Winter, in which Thompson plays the lead role as well as executive producer.
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“Honouring the talent of such a brilliant and multifaceted performer as Emma Thompson with the Leopard Club Award is due recognition to an artist who has moved us, made us think, entertained us and, most importantly, never ceased to surprise us,” says Locarno Film Festival artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro in the statement.
The 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival runs from August 6 to 16. The award has been given in the past to actors including Irène Jacob, Hilary Swank, Meg Ryan, Faye Dunaway and Mia Farrow.
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