Best Performance Award (Locarno International Film Festival)

{{Short description|Award given to the best performance at the Locarno Film Festival}}

{{Infobox award

| name = Pardo for Best Performance

| awarded_for = Two best performances by both actresses and actors

| presenter = Locarno International Film Festival

| year = 2023

| year2 = 2024

| holder = Kim Min-hee for By the Stream
Gelminė Glemžaitė, Agnė Kaktaitė, Giedrius Kiela, Paulius Markevičius for Drowning Dry

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The Pardo for Best Performance{{Cite web|url=https://www.locarnofestival.ch/festival/awards.html|title=Locarno Film Festival · 77 Years of Honoring the Best of World Cinema|website=Locarno Film Festival|access-date=18 August 2024|archive-date=August 12, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812144306/https://www.locarnofestival.ch/festival/awards.html|url-status=live}} (English: Leopard for Best Performance; {{langx|it|Pardo per la migliore interpretazione}}) is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival. It was first awarded in 2023. In 2022, the Locarno Film Festival announced that the two acting categories would be retired and replaced with one gender neutral category, with both Best Actor and Best Actress merging into two Pardo Awards for the Best Performances category.{{Cite web|url=https://www.locarnofestival.ch/press/press-releases/2022/locarno-film-festival-acting-awards-to-switch-to-gender-neutral-categories-from-2023.html|title=Locarno Film Festival: acting awards to switch to gender-neutral categories from 2023|website=Locarno Film Festival|date=14 September 2022 |access-date=18 August 2024|archive-date=August 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815203303/https://www.locarnofestival.ch/press/press-releases/2022/locarno-film-festival-acting-awards-to-switch-to-gender-neutral-categories-from-2023.html|url-status=live}}

Award winners

Year	Performer	Film ! class="unsortable"\|Ref
class="wikitable sortable"
rowspan=2\|2023	Dimitra Vlagopoulou	Animal	rowspan="2" \|{{Cite news\|author=Zac Ntim\|title=Locarno Film Festival Winners: ‘Critical Zone’ By Persecuted Iranian Filmmaker Ali Ahmadzadeh Takes Top Prize\|url=https://deadline.com/2023/08/locarno-film-festival-winners-critical-zone-ali-ahmadzadeh-iran-golden-leopard-1235460883/\|website=Deadline Hollywood\|date=August 12, 2023\|access-date=August 18, 2024\|archive-date=August 12, 2023\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812134354/https://deadline.com/2023/08/locarno-film-festival-winners-critical-zone-ali-ahmadzadeh-iran-golden-leopard-1235460883/\|url-status=live}}{{Cite web\|title=The Pardo d’oro at Locarno76 goes to Mantagheye bohrani (Critical Zone) by Iranian filmmaker Ali Ahmadzadeh, a hymn to freedom and resistance in Iran\|url=https://www.locarnofestival.ch/press/press-releases/2023/the-pardo-d-oro-at-locarno76-goes-to-mantagheye-bohrani-critical-zone.html\|website=Locarno Film Festival\|date=August 12, 2023\|access-date=August 18, 2024\|archive-date=August 12, 2023\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812221127/https://www.locarnofestival.ch/press/press-releases/2023/the-pardo-d-oro-at-locarno76-goes-to-mantagheye-bohrani-critical-zone.html\|url-status=live}}
Renée Soutendijk	Sweet Dreams
rowspan=2\|2024	Kim Min-hee	By the Stream	rowspan="2" \|{{Cite news\|author=Guy Lodge\|title=Lithuanian Teen Drama ‘Toxic’ Wins Big at Locarno Film Festival\|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/lithuanian-teen-drama-toxic-wins-at-locarno-film-festival-1236109849/\|website=Variety\|date=August 17, 2024\|access-date=August 17, 2024\|archive-date=August 17, 2024\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240817142910/https://variety.com/2024/film/news/lithuanian-teen-drama-toxic-wins-at-locarno-film-festival-1236109849/\|url-status=live}}{{Cite web\|title=Locarno77: The Pardo d’Oro goes to Akiplėša (Toxic) by Saulė Bliuvaitė, a striking vision of the teenage female body as a battleground\|url=https://www.locarnofestival.ch/press/press-releases/2024/palmares-locarno77-pardo-d-oro-to-akiplesa.html\|website=Locarno Film Festival\|date=August 17, 2024\|access-date=August 18, 2024\|archive-date=August 17, 2024\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240817213653/https://www.locarnofestival.ch/press/press-releases/2024/palmares-locarno77-pardo-d-oro-to-akiplesa.html\|url-status=live}}
Gelminė Glemžaitė Agnė Kaktaitė Giedrius Kiela Paulius Markevičius	Drowning Dry

References

External links

{{IMDb event|0000400|Locarno International Film Festival}}

Category:Swiss film awards

Category:Lists of films by award

Category:Locarno Film Festival