Julia Roberts, probably the most enduring stars of this period, will obtain the Academy Museum Gala Icon Award on the second annual Academy Museum Of Movement Footage Gala October 15, 2022. She joins the beforehand introduced honorees Miky Lee, Steve McQueen, and Tilda Swinton.
The Museum has additionally introduced its Host Committee which incorporates Ariana DeBose, Awkwafina, Colman Domingo, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Eddie Redmayne, Eiza González, Gwyneth Paltrow,Jennifer Garner, Jonathan Majors, Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann, Leonardo DiCaprio, Letitia Wright, Regina Corridor, Ruth Negga, and Selma Blair.
The awards offered on the Gala will embrace:
- The Icon Award, offered to Julia Roberts, celebrating an artist whose profession has had a big international cultural affect.
- The Vantage Award, offered to Steve McQueen, honoring an artist or scholar who has helped to contextualize and problem dominant narratives round cinema.
- The Visionary Award, offered to Tilda Swinton, honoring an artist or scholar whose intensive oeuvre has superior the artwork of cinema.
- The Pillar Award, offered to Miky Lee, which acknowledges exemplary management and help for the Academy Museum.
“Over the course of her expansive and famend profession, Julia has embodied iconic characters and memorable roles,” mentioned Jacqueline Stewart, Director and President of the Academy Museum. “We’re thrilled to be honoring her continued excellence within the business and contribution to the humanities. We’re deeply grateful to Julia, Miky, Steve, and Tilda, to Rolex, and to our co-chairs and host committee for making our second annual Gala a night to recollect.”
Roberts was most not too long ago seen as Martha Mitchell within the Starz Restricted Sequence, Gaslit, and shall be seen this Fall reverse George Clooney in Common’s comedy Ticket To Paradise.
The Host Committee moreover contains Adrien Brody, Amanda Seyfried & Thomas Sadoski, Billie Lourd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chloë Sevigny, Darren Criss, Elle Fanning, Emma Roberts, George C. Wolfe, Glenn Shut, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jessica Alba, Joe Jonas & Sophie Turner, Jon Hamm, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Keke Palmer, Child Cudi, Kirsten Dunst, Lily Collins, Lucy Liu, Natasha Lyonne, Orlando Bloom, Robert Duvall, Ron Howard. and extra.
The awards, offered yearly on the Academy Museum Gala, mirror the museum’s mission to advance the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema and to broaden information and dialog about cinema as a world artform and cultural pressure. The night raises funds to help the museum’s entry, training, and programming initiatives. The inaugural 2021 gala raised greater than $11MM.
Overseeing occasion manufacturing and design are Gala Artistic Director Lisa Love, and Inventive Director Raul Àvila.
The night is offered by Rolex and co-chaired by Academy Award-winning actor and Academy Museum supporter Halle Berry, Academy Museum Trustee and producer Jason Blum, Academy Museum Trustee and screenwriter-director-producer Ryan Murphy, and Academy Award-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o.
