Selection will honor “Emilia Pérez” director Jacques Audiard on the 2025 Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Competition with the Artistic Affect in Directing Award. The award can be bestowed as a part of Selection’s annual 10 Administrators to Watch and Artistic Affect Awards brunch on January 4. The accolade honors Audiard’s physique of labor, together with “Emilia Pérez,” “Rust and Bone,” “Dheepan,” and “A Prophet.” Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Edgar Ramírez will current the award to Audiard.
“Emilia Pérez” debuted at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition and gained the Jury Prize and the Finest Actress Prize, which was awarded to the 4 ladies of the ensemble for the primary time within the competition’s historical past. Audiard was awarded the Silver Medallion at Telluride Movie Competition, a tribute given to a few movie luminaries annually, the Douglas Sirk award at Filmfest Hamburg, and the Uncommon Pearl award on the Denver Movie Competition, amongst others.
For his earlier work, Audiard has gained each the César Award for Finest Movie and the BAFTA Award for Finest Movie Not within the English Language twice: in 2005 for “The Beat My Coronary heart Skipped” and in 2010 for “A Prophet,” which additionally gained the Grand Prix on the Cannes Movie Competition that very same 12 months. His movie “Rust and Bone” competed for the Palme d’Or on the 2012 Cannes Movie Competition, was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Finest Movie Not within the English Language, a Golden Globe Award for Finest International Language Movie, and gained the BFI London Movie Competition Award for Finest Movie. He gained the Palme d’Or on the 2015 Cannes Movie Competition for “Dheepan” and the Silver Lion for Finest Path on the Venice Movie Competition for “The Sisters Brothers.”
“From his Cesar Award-winning debut movie, ‘See How They Fall,’ 30 years in the past, writer-director Jacques Audiard has been on the forefront of worldwide cinema. With ‘Emilia Pérez’,” Audiard is now on the heart of the 2024 awards season, once more exhibiting his trademark qualities of bravado filmmaking, highly effective performances and riveting, provocative themes.” Steven Gaydos, Senior VP of World Content material, Selection.
The Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Competition runs Jan. 2 to 13, 2025. Passes and tickets are at present on sale. For extra info go to www.psfilmfest.org.