The Festival is also known for its annual Black Tie Awards Gala, honoring the best achievements of the filmic year by a celebrated list of talents who, in recent years, have included Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks, Matthew McConaughey, Julianne Moore, Brad Pitt, Eddie Redmayne, Julia Roberts, David O. Russell, Meryl Streep, and Reese Witherspoon.
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Honorees at the Palm Springs Film Festival gala were campaigning and practicing their awards speeches Saturday night.
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Matt Damon was awarded the Chairman’s Award for his role in science fiction blockbuster The Martian. It’s become a well-attended stop on the busy Hollywood awards circuit due to its timing during the Oscar nominations voting period and eight days before the Golden Globe Awards.
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Taking place at the Palm Springs Convention Centre in California, Michael Fassbender also received an award for his role in Jobs.
“What he’s given to cinema, it’s not an accident”, Damon said.
Mountains May Depart by Jia Zhangke from China, Utopians by Hong Kong director Scud, and The Assassin by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien were among them. There are a handful of them on planet earth, but he is one of them.
Again hosted by former “Entertainment Tonight” anchor Mary Hart, who called the event “the ground zero of the award season, which starts right here”, the evening featured award presenters as stellar as the recipients themselves.
Brie Larson won the breakthrough performance prize for starring in the thriller Room, saying: “I mean it’s all over-exciting and overwhelming and I’ve never experienced it before so I’m just trying to take it one step at a time. But… when I did ‘The Departed, ‘ we said it out loud a lot about Marty (Scorsese) and it panned out”.
“The bottom line is, he’s given more than enough to cinema”. I don’t know if you’re supposed to say that out loud. But… “This is going to take about 35 minutes”, he said, before praising wife Amber Heard.
Cate Blanchett, being lauded for her performance in “Carol”, was more magnanimous.
The actress has been tipped for Oscars glory for her role in the critically acclaimed lesbian love story.
The festival announced its awards ahead of time, minimizing anxiety for actors and allowing plenty of time for informal reunions.
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