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Pardo d’onore Manor

For the last 33 years the Locarno Film Festival's Pardo d’onore has been awarded to one of the most outstanding personalities of cinema ever previous recipients include filmmakers of such stature as Manoel de Oliveira, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, Terry Gilliam, Aleksandr Sokurov, William Friedkin, Alain Tanner, Jia Zhang-ke, Leos Carax, Werner Herzog, Agnès Varda, Michael Cimino, Marco Bellocchio, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jean-Marie Straub, Todd Haynes, Bruno Dumont and, John Waters, John Landis, Kelly Reichardt, and in 2023 Harmony Korine.

Since 2017, the Pardo d’onore award has been supported by Manor, Main Partner of the Locarno Film Festival.

Pardo d’onore Manor 2023 to Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine is hard to pin down, difficult to categorize as a filmmaker, but he is an artist whose touch is unmistakable in whatever form. A rebellious anarchist – both dangerous and poetic in his amused, cultivated radicalism – Korine redefined the term “maverick” in U.S. cinema, without ever losing the smile on his face or the sheer fun of it all. An auteur in the present indicative. Now that a key cult movie like Spring Breakers has chalked up its tenth anniversary, giving the Pardo d’onore Manor award to Korine is a celebration of the infinite forms of cinema.

Giona A. Nazzaro

Past winners

1989 Ennio Morricone
1990 Gian Maria Volonté
1991 Jacques Rivette
1992 Manoel de Oliveira
1993 Samuel Fuller
1994 Kira Muratova
1995 Jean-Luc Godard
1996 Werner Schroeter
1997 Bernardo Bertolucci
1998 Joe Dante
1999 Daniel Schmid
2000 Paul Verhoeven and Paolo Villaggio
2001 Sundance Institute
2002 Sydney Pollack
2003 Ken Loach
2004 Ermanno Olmi
2005 Terry Gilliam, Abbas Kiarostami and Wim Wenders
2006 Aleksandr Sokurov
2007 Hou Hsiao-Hsien
2008 Amos Gitai
2009 William Friedkin
2010 Alain Tanner and Jia Zhang-ke
2011 Abel Ferrara
2012 Leos Carax
2013 Werner Herzog
2014 Agnès Varda
2015 Marco Bellocchio and Michael Cimino
2016 Alejandro Jodorowsky
2017 Jean-Marie Straub and Todd Haynes
2018 Bruno Dumont
2019 John Waters
2021 John Landis
2022 Kelly Reichardt
2023 Harmony Korine

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