The Academy Museum of Movement Photos stated Thursday that Penélope Cruz, Walter Salles, Bruce Springsteen and SNL‘s Bowen Yang would be the honorees for its fifth annual Academy Museum Gala.
They are going to be honored October 18 at an occasion that serves as a key fundraiser to help the museum’s exhibitions, training initiatives and public programming. Final yr’s gala, which featured honorees Rita Moreno, Paul Mescal and Quentin Tarantino, raised greater than $11 million.
Cruz will obtain the Icon Award, Salles the Luminary Award and Yang the Vantage Award. Springsteen is ready to obtain the inaugural Legacy Award and is scheduled to carry out stay. Springsteen’s honor goes to “an artist whose physique of labor has impressed generations of storytellers and deeply influenced our tradition.”
Disney’s Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Ship Us From Nowhere starring Jeremy Allen White will open in theaters the week following the red-carpet occasion, on October 25.
The 2025 gala is being co-chaired by Jon M. Chu, Widespread, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey, Jennifer Hudson and Academy Museum trustee Alejandro Ramírez Magaña.
“The Academy Museum Gala is a particular night devoted to bringing collectively people to champion the celebration, development, and preservation of cinema. As we collect for a fifth yr, we’re honored to acknowledge Penélope Cruz, Walter Salles, Bruce Springsteen, and Bowen Yang — storytellers whose affect has been confirmed to resonate in movie and past,” stated Academy Museum director and president Amy Homma. “We’re so grateful to founding supporters of the museum, together with our accomplice Rolex, for his or her long-standing dedication to cinema, and our co-chairs for internet hosting this vital occasion.”
