John Turturro is heading to Switzerland with a trophy waiting for him. The Zurich Film Festival has named the veteran actor its Golden Eye Award recipient for the 22nd edition, running September 24 through October 4, and he'll pick it up in person on September 26 before sitting down for a career-spanning ZFF Masters conversation the next day.

The honor comes for his turn in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, written and directed by Noah Segan. Turturro plays Harry, a career pickpocket whose tightly managed life falls apart when a job goes sideways, kicking off a chain reaction that plays out over 36 tense hours on the streets of his hometown. Trade coverage out of Deadline, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter all flagged the film as one already picking up awards-season chatter.

"I am grateful to the Zurich Film Festival for this honor," Turturro said, adding that Segan's script pulled him in immediately. "There's a sense of tension as the clock works against Harry, balanced by a finely drawn character-driven story set in a particular time and place in New York. As a lifelong New Yorker, the world felt rich and evocative, and there was a delicacy about it that felt almost radical about the story Noah was telling."

ZFF CEO Christian Jungen didn't hold back either. He called Turturro an actor whose characters "leave a lasting, memorable impression" and said the new film doubles as a personal love letter to New York. "Even though he portrays the antihero, we find ourselves rooting for him right until the end," Jungen said. "That's exactly what John Turturro is characterized by."

It's a fair summary of a four-decade run. Spike Lee gave him his start with Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever. The Coen brothers kept bringing him back, through Miller's Crossing, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and, of course, The Big Lebowski, where he built Jesus Quintana into a cult figure out of maybe ten minutes of screen time. Barton Fink won him Best Actor at Cannes in 1991. He picked up an Emmy for a Monk guest spot and Emmy nominations for both seasons of Severance. Behind the camera, his directorial debut Mac took the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1992.

He isn't the only Golden Eye recipient this year. Zurich-born actress Elisabeth Baume-Schneider is also getting one, for her work in Eurotrash and the animated De Rägebogefisch, making her the youngest actor to receive the award, according to the festival. Julianne Moore, meanwhile, has been named this edition's Golden Icon Award honoree. Past Golden Eye winners include Jude Law, Kristen Stewart, Dakota Johnson, Jake Gyllenhaal and Benedict Cumberbatch, which puts Turturro in fairly loud company.

Zurich runs its full ten days from September 24. Whether The Only Living Pickpocket in New York picks up a distributor and a proper release date out of the festival circuit is the next thing to watch.