Isabella Rossellini to Receive Locarno Film Festival Excellence Award
Actress Isabella Rossellini is set to be honored with the Excellence Award at the Locarno Film Festival. The Swiss festival will laud the icon for her 'joyfully unconventional, consistently brilliant' career.
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The Locarno Film Festival will honor Isabella Rossellini with its Excellence Award that pays tribute to film personalities who are making their mark on contemporary cinema. Rossellini — whose most recent credits include Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera” (2023) and Edward Berger’s “Conclave” (2024), for which she scored an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress — […]
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"Virtually synonymous with artistic daring and technical excellence, Rossellini has long fused the technical brilliance of Hollywood with the European spirit of artistic fearlessness."
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Isabella Rossellini will be feted at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, which runs from August 5 to 15. The festival will give Rossellini its Excellence Award. Previous recipients of Locarno’s Excellence Award include Susan Sarandon, John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Michel Piccoli, Anjelica Huston, Carmen Maura, Isabelle Huppert, and, in 2025, Golshifteh Farahani. Locarno Artistic Director […]
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