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American film director Richard Linklater The film will receive the Honor Award at the BCN Film Festival in Barcelona on April 26, the international competition organization reported Monday.

Linklater will receive the award during the festival's closing ceremony on April 26, in which he will present his latest film, “Hit Man,” an unusual comedy hailed by the Venice Film Festival as one of his best works. His career.

The competition gives him the award of honor that Wim Wenders received last year in recognition of his professional career. “One of the most important and personal directors of contemporary world cinema, the author of films that have distinguished different generations of film lovers.”

Born in Houston in 1960, Linklater was a major exponent of independent cinema in the 1990s, whose films include “Slacker” (1990) and “Dazed and Confused” (1993), and his acclaimed trilogy “Before Sunrise” (1995). (1995). “Before Sunset” (2004) and “Before Midnight” (2013), starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” (2022).

With Boyhood (2014), filmed intermittently for 12 years with the same cast, Linklater received great recognition from audiences and critics, and awards such as the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale, 3 Golden Globe Awards, 2 Spirit Awards. And the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette.

Linklater is the artistic director of the Austin Film Society, one of the nation's largest film organizations, which operates a movie theater that shows films from around the world, operates a film studio, and has awarded more than $2.2 million in grants to Texas filmmakers.

With information from EFE

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