Annette Bening will be honored with the Career Achievement Award at the 28th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, which runs from January 2–16, 2017.
Bening is a four-time Academy Award nominee, two-time Golden Globe winner, and two-time recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Award. With amazing performances in films like “The Kids Are All Right,” “American Beauty,” “The American President,” “Bugsy,” “Regarding Henry,” “The Grifters,” and “Being Julia,” Bening is one of Hollywood’s finest actresses.
“Throughout her career, Annette Bening has brought to the screen many memorable performances,” said Festival Chairman Harold Matzner. “Bening creates yet another memorable award-winning role portraying Dorothea, a free-spirited single mother raising her teenage son in Mike Mills’ upcoming film ‘20th Century Women.’ It is our great honor to present the Career Achievement Award to Annette Bening.”
Set in Santa Barbara, California, “20th Century Women” follows Dorothea Fields (Bening), “”a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women in Jamie’s upbringing — via Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields’ home, and Julie (Elle Fanning), a savvy and provocative teenage neighbor.
It’s predicted that Bening will earn herself another Oscar nomination for playing Dorothea, and has been nominated for the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Golden Globes, Gotham Awards, and Independent Spirit Awards already. Her upcoming films include “The Seagull” and “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.”
Previous female recipients of Palm Springs’ Career Achievement Award include include Sally Field, Glenn Close, and Lynn Redgrave.
The 2017 Palm Springs International Film Festival will also honor Nicole Kidman with the International Star Award, and the cast of “Hidden Figures” with the Ensemble Performance Award.