Two-time Oscar-winning editor Pietro Scalia will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Vision Award honoring technical achievements and advancements in film.Scalia, who was born in Sicily but grew up in Switzerland and studied film at UCLA, has won Oscars for “JFK” and “Black Hawk Down.” Over the past two decades he’s collaborated closely with top directors such as Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gus Van Sant, Rob Marshall, Sam Raimi and Michael Mann.
His recent work includes Mann’s upcoming “Ferrari.”Scalia will receive the Locarno award on Aug.
3 during a ceremony on the Swiss fest’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande, followed on Aug.
4 by an onstage conversation and screenings of two standout titles from his career: “Good Will Hunting” (1997) and “Black Hawk Down” (2001).“In the beginning there was the editing, as Eisenstein taught us, and as Hollywood formally defined it,” said Giona A.
Nazzaro,…
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