EXCLUSIVE: A protracted-lurking monster will creep into the Palm Springs Movie Pageant subsequent month.
The occasion is ready to current the 2026 Visionary Award to Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro and stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth throughout its awards ceremony in January. It’s going to mark the primary time the award has gone to a film’s director and solid, noting “one of many 12 months’s most daring and unforgettable achievements.”
“Guillermo del Toro delivers a daring reimagining of a timeless basic, infusing the story with a profound emotional resonance that urges us to contemplate what it really means to be human,” pageant Chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi stated. “Oscar Isaac’s haunting portrayal of Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi’s deeply affecting efficiency as The Creature and Mia Goth’s mesmerizing flip as each Elizabeth Harlander and Claire Frankenstein illuminate the movie’s central themes with extraordinary energy.”
Frankenstein premiered at Venice in late August, drawing a monster 15-minute ovation. It’s two-time Oscar winner del Toro’s longtime ardour challenge — a retelling of Mary Shelley’s genre-defining novel of life and demise and what it means to be human, to crave love and search understanding. Isaac performs the sensible however tortured scientist Victor Frankenstein, who embarks on an ego-driven quest to deliver new life into this world, leading to The Creature (Elordi). Christoph Waltz additionally stars as Elizabeth’s rich uncle, Harlander.
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Previous winners of the Visionary Award embody Greatest Image winners embody Denis Villeneuve for Dune final 12 months, Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), Alfonso Cuarón (Roma) and Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) — the latter two occurring to win the Greatest Director Oscar throughout their respective 12 months.
Leonardo DiCaprio is ready for the pageant’s Desert Palm Achievement Award, and Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet will obtain its Vanguard Award. See the opposite 2026 honorees right here.
The Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Pageant launched in 1990 within the desert metropolis east of Los Angeles, and its 2026 occasion runs January 2-11. Its movie awards will probably be handed out January 3 on the Palm Springs Conference Middle.
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