Jean-Pierre Léaud will be awarded this year's Pardo alla Carriera (lifetime achievement award) at the Locarno Film Festival

Jean-Pierre Léaud will be receiving the Pardo alla Carriera – Locarno Film Festival’s lifetime achievement award.

Actor, director and icon of the French new Wave, Léaud is most famous for having interpreted the character of Antoine Doinel, alter ego of filmmaker Francois Truffaut from the 1959 classic The 400 Blows to the 1979 work Love On the Run.

Throughout his career, Léaud also collaborated with other filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Eustache, Olivier Assayas, Bertrand Bonello, Jerzy Skolimowski, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Highly regarded for his soft spoken line deliveries, enigmatic movements, deadpan facial expressions and that peculiar and unique mannerism of running his hand through his hair, this award certainly honours a stand out career in the history of world cinema.