Eddie Redmayne to obtain high honor at Zurich Movie Competition

Sept. 6 (UPI) — Actor Eddie Redmayne will likely be awarded a Golden Eye, the highest honor on the upcoming Zurich Movie Competition in Switzerland, the group introduced Tuesday.

Redmayne will receive the award on Sept. 25, the place he will likely be attending the Swiss pageant to advertise his upcoming movie The Good Nurse previous to its European premiere.

“Eddie Redmayne is one in all up to date cinema’s most versatile actors. He furnishes his characters with a uncommon human depth and captivates us together with his extraordinary powers of expression,” mentioned the inventive director of the Zurich Movie Competition, Christian Jungen. “He furnishes his characters with a uncommon human depth and captivates us together with his extraordinary powers of expression.”

“In The Good Nurse, Redmayne as soon as once more proves his versatility with a efficiency that retains us riveted to our seats,” Jungen added.

This is not going to be the U.Ok. actor’s first time on the movie pageant, as Redmayne was beforehand at Zurich in 2007 for his movie Savage Grace, the place Redmayne, then a newcomer, starred alongside Julianne Moore.

The acclaimed actor is maybe finest identified for his starring function as Newt Scamander within the Harry Potter spinoff series Incredible Beasts starting in 2016.

Redmayne grew to become identified throughout Hollywood, nevertheless, for his work as noted physicist Stephen Hawking within the 2014 movie The Concept of Every part, a job that earned him the Academy Award for Finest Actor.

Redmayne was additionally nominated for a similar award for his function the next 12 months within the biographical drama The Danish Lady. Although he didn’t win, Redmayne’s performance as trans girl Lili Elbe obtained essential acclaim.

Past the Academy Awards, Redmayne has additionally gained or been nominated for quite a few different trade honors, together with three BAFTA nominations and a pair of Golden Globe nominations.

Redmayne would go on to win one in all every.

Receiving Zurich’s Golden Eye will put Redmayne in good firm, because the award has beforehand been given to actors like John Malkovich, Olivia Colman, Kristen Stewart and Jake Gyllenhaal.

The movie for which he’s attending the upcoming pageant, The Good Nurse, will see Redmayne star as real-life serial killing nurse Charlie Cullen alongside Jessica Chastain.

The Good Nurse is anticipated to generate vital awards buzz upon its premiere, and its director, Tobias Lindholm, praised Redmayne’s work in an announcement to the Zurich Movie Competition.

“Eddie was a pleasure to work with,” Lindholm mentioned. “He’s extremely caring, extremely properly ready, and extremely technical. His preparation permits him to work with nice freedom and — what appears like — nice ease.”

“He humanizes the inhuman. He warms the chilly. He glows at the hours of darkness. Undisturbed and with out blinking. It was not uncommon that I drove house from the set with the sensation of getting been near greatness,” Lindholm added.

The 18th Zurich Movie Competition will run from Sept. 22 to Oct. 2.