hilaryswank to be Honored at LocarnoFestival
Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank will be honored at the 2019 Locarno International Film Festival with a lifetime achievement award.
Swank will receive the festival's Leopard Club Award, given to “a major film personality whose work has made a lasting impact on the collective imagination.” Making the announcement Wednesday, Lili Hinstin, Locarno's new artistic director, called Swank “an actress whose roles and life story are emblematic of female strength and tenacity.”
Swank will attend Locarno to receive the award, which will be presented at the Swiss festival on Aug. 9. Locarno will also screen the two films for which Swank won Oscars: Kimberly Peirce's 1999 drama, in which Swank plays transgender teen Brandon Teena, who was raped and murdered in Nebraska in 1993; and Clint Eastwood's, in which Swank plays a female boxer who, after a brutal fight, is left a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic.
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