Glenn Close is heading to Palm Springs and she’ll leave with a new decoration for her mantelpiece. The six-time Oscar nominee is set to be honored with the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Icon Award for her performance in “The Wife,” Variety reports. The awards ceremony will be held January 3, and the fest runs from January 3-14.
Meryl Streep is among the previous recipients of the award. The fest recognized Close with the Career Achievement Award for her performance in 2011’s “Albert Nobbs.”
“Glenn Close is a rare and enduring talent who has consistently brought challenging characters to life on film, television, and stage for over four decades,” said festival chairman Harold Matzner.
Based on the Meg Wolitzer novel of the same name, “The Wife” centers on a woman who has dedicated her life to supporting her husband and his career as a successful author. Just as he’s about to receive the Nobel Prize, she begins to reevaluate their relationship. The film made its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, where Close’s performance was met with awards buzz.
Close has already received Oscar nods for “Albert Nobbs,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Fatal Attraction,” “The Natural,” “The Big Chill,” and “The World According to Garp.” She received two Emmys for her role in FX legal thriller “Damages,” and another for TV movie “Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story.”
“The Wife” took over a decade to be be made. “In a strange way I’m really grateful it took 14 years for this film to be made because if it was made and released back in the early 2000s, the movie would have disappeared because the culture and the studio system wouldn’t have been ready to really embrace the film,” screenwriter Jane Anderson told us. “And what’s kind of marvelous is that the grand, frustrating delay in pushing the boulder for 14 years is that the movie is now being released when it is now speaking to a zeitgeist that’s happening. I find that utterly thrilling and I’m just sitting here grinning.”
Close is also set to be honored at the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
