M.att Dillonthe 58-year-old actor of masterpieces of the New Hollywood like Rusty the Savage, last night he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Locarno Film Festival, the Lifetime Achievement Award. He showed up at the event with his Italian girlfriend, the Roman actress Roberta Mastromichele.
From left: Matt Dillon, actor; Roberta Mastromichele, actress; Marco Solari, President of the Locarno Film Festival. Locarno, 04 August 2022 © Locarno Film Festival / Tix-Press / Massimo Pedrazzini
Mat Dillon in Locarno 75
The 75ª edition of the Swiss film festival sealed the event with the screening of two of the numerous films that dot Dillon’s career. Cowboy Drugstore by Gus Van Sant from 1989 (his first participation in the event coincides with the debut of this film) and City of Ghosts, directed by the artist himself exactly twenty years ago.
Matt Dillon’s career
Newcomer just a teenager in Over the Edge by Jonathan Kaplan in the late 1970s, Dillon is part of the large group of first-time actors launched by the Francis Ford Coppola’s cult generational film The boys of 56th street, of 1983, shot alongside Hollywood stars of the caliber of Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise and Patrick Swayze.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Matt Dillon with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 75 Locarno Film Festival. © Locarno Film Festival / Ti-Press / Alessandro Crinari
The same year he will also participate in Rusty the savagealso by Coppola, next to Mickey Rourke and Nicolas Cage and from then on he will rise to the role of Hollywood superstar.
In the following years he ventured into the most diverse genres, abandoning the roles of a young rebel to try his hand at comedy with Everyone’s crazy about Mary in 1998 with the girlfriend of the time (it lasted five years) Cameron Diaz and in the drama with Crash – physical contact (2004) next to Sandra Bullock.
The prize
In Locarno he showed up wearing a sober blue suit to receive the award from the festival director Giona A Nazzaro, after having walked on the red carpet with his girlfriend Roberta Mastromichele, gracefully dressed in pink, with which she has shared her existence – between New York and Rome – for the past eight years.
Matt expressed his gratitude by expressing astonishment at the sheer size of the spectacular Piazza Grande in which his two films would be shown shortly after. He then joked about the fact of being too young to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award and concluded by admitting that he had been active in the sector for so long that he deserved the statuette of the Golden Leopard.
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