The Locarno Film Festival will honor U.S. director James Gray with its career achievement award, the Pardo alla Carriera, at the festival’s 79th edition in August. Both Deadline and Variety report that Gray will receive the honor on August 9. In connection with the award, the festival will screen Gray’s most recent film, “Paper Tiger,” as part of the event programming. Deadline specifies that “Paper Tiger” will be shown in an open-air screening at Locarno’s Piazza Grande, which seats about 8,000 people, describing the screening as a festival highlight. Variety similarly links the award date to the “Paper Tiger” screening and notes that the film launched earlier this year, premiering in May from Cannes. Together, the two outlets frame the event as a career retrospective moment for Gray, centered on his latest feature presented during the festival week.