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The Zurich Film Festival will honor John Turturro with the Golden Eye Award at the 22nd edition, which runs from Sept. 24 to Oct. 4.
Turturro will receive the award for his performance in “The Only Living Pickpocket
in New York,” written and directed by Noah Segan. He will accept the award on Sept. 26, and will share insights into his career during a ZFF Masters session on Sept. 27.
“John Turturro is an iconic actor who made himself unforgettable with films like ‘Barton Fink’ and ‘The Big Lebowski’ – his characters leave a lasting, memorable impression,” Christian Jungen, CEO of the Zurich Film Festival, said. “ ‘In ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,’ he carries the film from the very first minute to the very last, while also turning it into a deeply personal love letter to his hometown. Even though he portrays the antihero, we find ourselves rooting for him right until the end. That’s exactly what John Turturro is characterized by: he creates characters that are exaggerated for the screen yet feel completely true to life at the same time. With the Golden Eye Award, we honor an actor who has left his unmistakable signature on cinema for decades.”
In “The Only Living Pickpocket In New York,” Turturro stars as Harry, a seasoned pickpocket whose carefully controlled life is thrown into turmoil when a job goes wrong, setting off a tense chain of events that unfolds over the course of 36 hours.
Turturro said, “I was immediately drawn to Noah’s script and to the world he created in ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.’ There’s a sense of tension as the clock works against Harry, balanced by a finely drawn character-driven story set in a particular time and place in New York. As a lifelong New Yorker, the world felt rich and evocative, and there was a delicacy about it that felt almost radical about the story Noah was telling.”
