John Malkovich to Be Honored with Zurich Film Fest's 'Golden Eye' Award

Double Oscar-nominee John Malkovich will be honored for his life's work with the Golden Eye award at this year's Zurich International Film Festival.

Malkovich's career stretches back nearly three decades and has included everything from the acclaimed period drama Dangerous Liaisons to action thrillers In the Line of Fire, Con Air and the RED franchise to the self-referential dramedy of SPIKE Jonze's Being John Malkovich in 1999.

Malkovich will receive his Golden Eye honor on Saturday from German actress Veronika Ferres, with whom Malkovich appeared in a TV mini-series version of Les Miserables in 2000. Erin Brockovich producer Michael Shamberg is also among the Zurich festival honorees this year.

John Malkovich is a founding member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has worked on 33 productions with the company since 1976. In 1983 he won an Obie for his performance in Sam Shepard's True West. The following year, he appeared with Dustin Hoffman in the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, which earned him an Emmy in 1985 when it was made into a television film. He rose to fame in cinema with his interpretation of Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears, alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Glenn Close. After this role he acted in more than 70 movies internationally, receiving Academy Award nominations for Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire and playing a version of himself in the films Adaptation and Being John Malkovich.

He has periodically returned to Chicago to act and direct, and was recently seen in the international tour of The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a serial killer. This production traveled to nearly 20 countries and received its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music in November 2011. He also directed his third theatre production in Paris, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, at the Théâtre de l'Atelier following the success of Hysteria (2002) and The Good Canary (2007) for which he was awarded the Molière Award for best staging.

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