Emma Thompson will be honored by the Locarno Film Festivalwhich will premiere her new film, Brian Kerk’s action thriller ‘The Dead of Winter’.

The English actresswhich is also a leading and executive producer of the film, is the only one in the history of the American Academy of Film Arts and Sciences that has won an Oscar for both “Howard’s End” and a script (“Sense and Sensibility”).

Emma Thompson will be honored by the Swiss Festival, which is Europe’s top event dedicated to independent cinema, with the Leopard Club award.

Thompson is praised by the organizers of the Locarno Festival for her career in acting, writing and production that extends to both television and cinema, independent films and major overproduction. “Thompson’s willingness to risk with her roles means that she has remained a vital force on stage and the screen for four decades, a proof of the depth of love that feeds on her many generations of fans,” the festival said in a statement.

The movie “The Dead of Winter” will premiere in Locarno on August 8 and on the same night Emma Thompson will receive her award at the Piazza Grand of the Swiss city.

The artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, Jona A. Najaro commented: “Emma Thompson embodies the best of a tradition of interpreters who continue to be able to infiltrate every role with the deeper knowledge of the actor’s work.”.

“Working with screenwriters as excellent as herself, facing constantly changing characters, moving from Shakespeare to James Aivori, from the magic of” Harry Potter “to the transformations of” Nanny McPhee “, he continued to surprise the audience in a career that has two in a career of two, two of her. Golden Globes, Three Bafta, a Golden Leo and an Emmy »he stressed.