Darren Aronofsky

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Darren Aronofsky

US filmmaker Darren Aronofsky will receive an honorary Pardo d’Onore award at the 79th Locarno Film Festival (August 5-15).

Aronofsky will receive the award at a ceremony in the main Piazza Grande venue on Friday, August 14.

Giona Nazzaro, artistic director of the festival, described Aronofsky as “an auteur who has made the sheer force of creativity, invention and audacity his trademark. [He] has never failed to challenge conventions and expectations… Darren Aronofsky embodies the pleasure of cinema as risk and constant challenge.”

Alongside the award, Aronofsky’s films The Fountain and Mother! will be presented in the festival programme.

Aronofsky’s films have won three Independent Spirit Awards and a Golden Lion from the Venice International Film Festival, alongside nominations for an Academy Award, Critics’ Choice Award and Golden Globe.

His credits as director include Pi, Requiem for A Dream, Black Swan and The Whale. Most recently, Aronofsky directed last year’s Caught Stealing, starring Austin Butler and distributed by Sony Pictures.

He is currently working with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn on an original erotic thriller for Sony Pictures.

The Pardo d’Onore has previously been awarded to filmmakers including Jean Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Jane Campion, Harmony Korine, Manoel de Oliveira and Bernardo Bertolucci.

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