Aaron Taylor Johnson will be honored by Locarno Film Festival With the 2022 Davide Campari Excellence Award, which honors cinematic personalities who are making their mark on contemporary cinema.
The 32-year-old British actor, He will receive the award on the evening of August 3 at the Swiss Open Air Festival The Piazza Grande is where Locarno’s opening film “Bullet Train” by David Leitch will be released, in which Brad Pitt is among the other notable cast members.
Taylor Johnson is known for roles spanning from his breakout performance as John Lennon in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s 2009 film “Nowhere” and the title character in Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick-Ass” in 2010, to Count Vronsky in Joe Wright’s “Anna” Karenina”, and MCU character Peter Maximov in Avengers: Age of Ultron. In 2016, he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals”. Taylor Johnson recently got major roles in the two films “Godzilla” and “Tenet” by Christopher Nolan.
Locarno technical director Giona A.
He added that Taylor Johnson was the perfect choice to receive this award on the 75th anniversary of the festival, which is “looking to the future”.
Previous winners of the Locarno Prize for Excellence include Ethan Hawke, Matthew Kasowitz, Edward Norton, John Malkovich, Juliette Binoche, Isabel Hubert and Letitia Casta.
The 75th edition of the Locarno Film Festival will run from August 3-14.
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