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Rick Baker, nan seasoned make-up creator down Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video and Hollywood classics for illustration The Nutty Professor and An American Werewolf successful London, will beryllium awarded nan honorary Vision Award astatine this year’s Locarno Film Festival.
Baker will beryllium handed nan grant astatine nan festival’s Piazza Grande connected August 12.
“Rick Baker was responsible for a Copernican gyration successful cinema: visionary and revolutionary, he opened caller paths for nan imagination of full generations, showing what it genuinely intends to witnesser beingness transmutation connected nan large screen,” Locarno head Giona A. Nazzaro said successful a statement.
“His filmography includes collaborations pinch George Lucas and David Cronenberg, Brian De Palma and Joe Dante, Tim Burton and Peter Jackson, John Carpenter and Mike Nichols, among galore others. Presenting nan Vision Award successful Locarno to a pioneer and innovator for illustration him, an absolute brilliant and incomparable craftsman, is an honour done which nan Festival celebrates nan infinite possibilities of cinema and its container of tricks.”
The Vision Award honors trade artists. Previous winners see Italian costume designer Milena Canonero, American sound designer Ben Burtt, and movie editor Pietro Scalia.
This year’s Locarno Film Festival runs from August 5 to 15. Veteran American creator Cindy Sherman has designed nan charismatic show poster. Also receiving honorary awards astatine this year’s fest are Darren Aronofsky, Isabella Rossellini, and Asia Argento.
