The Leopard of Honour is a career achievement award given annually at the Locarno Film Festival since 1989. The award especially denotes recognition of auteur cinema and creative and audacious filmmaking.
Winners
1980s YearRecipientProfessionNationality of RecipientRef.1989Ennio MorriconeComposer and conductorItaly
1990s YearRecipientProfessionNationality of RecipientRef.1990Gian Maria VolontéActorItaly1991Jacques RivetteFilmmaker and film criticFrance1992Manoel de OliveiraFilmmakerPortugal1993Samuel FullerFilmmaker, writer and actorUnited States1994Kira MuratovaFilmmakerSoviet Union, Ukraine1995Jean-Luc GodardFrance1996Werner SchroeterGermany1997Bernardo BertolucciItaly1998Joe DanteUnited States1999Daniel SchmidFilmmaker and theatre directorSwitzerlandFrancesco RosiFilmmakerItalyGerard BlainActor and filmmakerFrench
2000s YearRecipientProfessionNationality of RecipientRef.2000Paul VerhoevenFilmmakerNetherlandsPaolo VillaggioActor and directorItaly2001Chen KaigeFilmmakerChinaSundance InstituteNon-profit organisationUnited StatesCahiers du CinémaFilm magazineFrance2002Sydney PollackFilmmakerUnited States2003Ken LoachUnited Kingdom2004Ermanno OlmiItaly2005Terry GilliamUnited KingdomAbbas KiarostamiIranWim WendersGermany2006Alexander SokurovSoviet Union, Russia2007Hou Hsiao-hsienTaiwan2008Amos GitaiIsrael2009William FriedkinUnited States
2010s YearRecipientProfessionNationality of RecipientRef.2010Jia ZhangkeFilmmakerChinaAlain TannerSwitzerland2011Abel FerraraUnited States2012Leos CaraxFrance2013Werner HerzogGermany2014Agnès VardaFrance2015Marco BellocchioItalyMichael CiminoUnited States2016Alejandro JodorowskyChile, France2017Todd HaynesUnited StatesJean-Marie StraubFrance2018Bruno Dumont2019John WatersUnited States
2020s YearRecipientProfessionNationality of RecipientRef.2021John LandisFilmmaker and actorUnited States2022Kelly ReichardtFilmmaker2023Harmony Korine2024Jane CampionNew Zealand2025Alexander PayneUnited States2026Darren Aronofsky
See also Locarno Film Festival
References
External links Official site