The Zurich Film Festival will honor director Martin McDonagh with its A Tribute To … Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cinema.
The filmmaker behind In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Banshees of Inisherin, will receive the award in Zurich at a gala screening of his new film, Wild Horse Nine. The dark comedy, starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as a pair of CIA officers sent to Easter Island ahead of the 1973 coup in Chile, will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival next month.
John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell in ‘Wild Horse Nine’
Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures/Diego Araya Corvalán
McDonagh’s last two features: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) were multiple-Academy Award nominees and both were nominated for Best Picture. Three Billboards won acting Oscars for Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell.
