UPDATED with newest: Adam Sandler will obtain the Palm Springs Movie Competition‘s 2026 Chairman’s Award for his “deeply shifting” efficiency in Netflix’s Jay Kelly starring George Clooney.
“Adam Sandler delivers a deeply shifting and career-best efficiency in Jay Kelly,” mentioned Competition Chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi. “It’s a efficiency which underscores his standing as one of the crucial versatile and revered actors of his technology. We’re proud to honor Adam — a singular expertise whose work continues to shock and encourage — with this yr’s Chairman’s Award.”
The competition runs January 2-11 within the desert metropolis east of Los Angeles, and its movie awards might be handed out January 3 on the Palm Springs Conference Heart. See the opposite introduced honorees under.
PREVIOUS, Nov. 5: The Palm Springs Movie Competition kicked off its giving season Wednesday, revealing that the solid of Joachim Trier’s Cannes hit Sentimental Worth will obtain its Worldwide Star Award — the primary time the award might be offered to an ensemble. Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning might be honored January 3 in the course of the fest’s Movie Awards on the Palm Springs Conference Heart.
Within the movie — which obtained a unprecedented 19-ovation for its premiere on the Grand Théâtre Lumière in Might — Reinsve performs Nora, an actress, who together with her youthful sister Agnes (Lilleaas) are reunite with their estranged father Gustav (Skarsgård), a once-famous director who presents Nora a job in what he hopes might be his comeback movie. When Nora turns it down, she quickly discovers he has given her half to an keen younger Hollywood star (Fanning). All come collectively in a swirl of complicated household dynamics.
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Reuniting Trier along with his The Worst Particular person within the World star Reinsve, Sentimental Worth is Norway’s entry for the Finest Worldwide Characteristic Movie Oscar race.
“This extraordinary group embodies the very spirit of worldwide cinema that our competition celebrates,” Competition Chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi mentioned. “Their deeply felt performances illuminate Joachim Trier’s shifting story of household and reconciliation. With Sentimental Worth representing Norway for Finest Worldwide Characteristic Movie, we’re thrilled to acknowledge a movie and solid whose affect resonates throughout cultures and continents.”
The competition, which runs January 2-11, will reveal its different award recipients within the coming weeks.
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