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Locarno Film Festival: Juliette Binoche receives the Excellence Award Moët & Chandon

The French actress Juliette Binoche received on Saturday night the Excellence Award at the Locarno Film Festival. The official champagne of the festival, Moët & Chandon, rewards actors and actresses with this prize since 2004.

The previous years popular stars such as Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Huppert and Sir Christopher Lee received the Excellence Award.

Juliette Binoche - Excellence Award Moët & Chandon © Festival del film Locarno / Carlo Reguzzi

Juliette Binoche – Excellence Award Moët & Chandon © Festival del film Locarno / Carlo Reguzzi

It is in front of 8000 people that Juliette Binoche received hers on the Piazza Grande. The managing director for Moët Hennessy Switzerland, Mrs Nadine Fau, accompanied by the artistic director of the festival, Carlo Chatrian, handed out the prize to her.

Excellence Award Moët & Chandon. Juliette Binoche, actress and Olivier Assayas director of Sils Maria © Festival del film Locarno / Carlo Reguzzi

Excellence Award Moët & Chandon. Juliette Binoche, actress and Olivier Assayas director of Sils Maria © Festival del film Locarno / Carlo Reguzzi

Juliette Binoche is internationally known and has played roles in over 40 films such as the “Amant du Pont-Neuf” (1991), the “English Patient” (1996), for which she received an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, “Chocolat” (2000), “Caché” (2005) and “Camille Claudel 1915” (2013). Her latest film “Clouds of Sils Maria” is now on the screens.

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One thought on “Locarno Film Festival: Juliette Binoche receives the Excellence Award Moët & Chandon”

  1. Juliette Binoche interprète divinement le rôle de Maria dans Sils Maria,
    Superbe et grande actrice française !

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