2025 AWARD RECIPIENTS

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Emilia Pérez

Vanguard Award
Cast Includes: Karla Sofia Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Edgar Ramírez
Netflix

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Colman Domingo

Spotlight Award, Actor
Sing Sing
A24

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Mikey Madison

Breakthrough Performance Award
Anora
NEON

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Conclave

Ensemble Performance Award
Cast Includes: Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Lucian Msamati

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Adrien Brody

Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
The Brutalist
A24

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Nicole Kidman

International Star Award
Babygirl
A24

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Angelina Jolie

Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Maria
Netflix

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Kieran Culkin

Breakthrough Performance Award, Actor
A Real Pain
Searchlight Pictures

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Timothée Chalamet

Chairman’s Award
A Complete Unknown
Searchlight Pictures

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Ariana Grande

Rising Star Award
Wicked
Universal Pictures

2024 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 35th Annual

Hosted by Entertainment Tonight’s Mary Hart

Cillian Murphy

Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Oppenheimer
Presented by: Robert Downey Jr

Emma Stone Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Poor Things
Presented by: Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe
Greta Gerwig Director of the Year Award
Barbie
Presented by: Margot Robbie and America Ferrera
Carey Mulligan International Star Award, Actress
Maestro
Presented by: Meryl Streep
Killers of the Flower Moon

Vanguard Award
Writer/Director Martin Scorcese
Cast Includes: Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone
Presented by: Talee Redcorn, Principal Chief of the Osage Nation Geoffrey Standing Bear and Princess Lulu Goodfox

Jeffrey Wright Career Achievement Award
American Fiction
Presented by: Leslie Uggams
Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell Chairman’s Award
Barbie
Presented by: Greta Gerwig
Danielle Brooks Spotlight Award, Actress
The Color Purple
Presented by: Taraji P. Henson and Blitz Bazawule
Da’Vine Joy Randolph Breakthrough Performance Award, Actress
The Holdovers
Presented by: Paul Giamatti
Colman Domingo Spotlight Award, Actor
Rustin
Presented by: Lenny Kravitz
Paul Giamatti Icon Award
The Holdovers
Presented by: Sandra Oh

2023 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 34th Annual

Hosted by Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner

Colin Farrell Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
The Banshees of Inisherin
Presented by: Sam Rockwell
Cate Blanchett Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Tár
Presented by: Jamie Lee Curtis
Sarah Polley Director of the Year Award
Women Talking
Presented by: Eric Idle
Michelle Yeoh International Star Award, Actress
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Presented by: Stephanie Hsu
The Fabelmans Vanguard Award
Writer/Director Steven Spielberg
Cast Includes: Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle and Judd Hirsch
Presented by: Sally Field
Austin Butler Breakthrough Performance Award, Actor
Elvis
Presented by: Baz Luhrmann
Viola Davis Chairman’s Award
The Woman King
Presented by: Cate Blanchett
Bill Nighy International Star Award, Actor
Living
Presented by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Danielle Deadwyler Breakthrough Performance Award, Actress
Till
Presented by: Brian Tyree Henry
Brendan Fraser Spotlight Award, Actor
The Whale
Presented by: Hong Chau

2022 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 33rd Annual

Hosted by Entertainment Tonight

Kristen Stewart Spotlight Award, Actress
Spencer
Penélope Cruz International Star Award, Actress
Parallel Mothers
Jane Campion Director of the Year Award
The Power of The Dog
Jessica Chastain Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Jennifer Hudson Chairman’s Award
Respect
Belfast Vanguard Award
Writer/Director Kenneth Branagh, Cast Includes: Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds and Jude Hill
Andrew Garfield

Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
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King Richard Ensemble Performance Award
Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Jon Bernthal and Tony Goldwyn
Lady Gaga

Icon Award
House of Gucci

Nicole Kidman

Career Achievement Award
Being the Ricardos

2021 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 32nd Annual

Hosted by Entertainment Tonight

Carey Mulligan International Star Award, Actress
Promising Young Woman
Gary Oldman Chairman’s Award
Mank
Chloé Zhao Director of the Year Award
Nomadland
Riz Ahmed Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Sound of Metal
The Trial Of The Chicago 7 Vanguard Award: Writer and Director Aaron Sorkin, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Jeremy Strong and more.
Leslie Odom, Jr.

Spotlight Award, Actor
One Night in Miami

Anthony Hopkins

Career Achievement Award
The Father

Andra Day Breakthrough Performance Award
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Viola Davis

Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Daniel Kaluuya

International Star Award, Actor
Judas and the Black Messiah

Yuh-Jung Youn

Spotlight Award, Actress
Minari

2020 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 31st Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Renée Zellweger

Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Judy
Presented by: Rupert Goold

Joaquin Phoenix

Chairman’s Award
Joker
Presented by: Todd Phillips

Charlize Theron

International Star Award, Actress
Bombshell
Presented by: Jay Roach

Martin Scorcese

Sonny Bono Visionary Award
The Irishman
Presented by: Robert De Niro

Jennifer Lopez

Spotlight Award, Actress
Hustlers
Presented by: Lorene Scafaria

Antonio Banderas

International Star Award, Actor
Pain and Glory
Presented by: Salma Hayek

Laura Dern

Career Achievement Award
Marriage Story
Presented by: Noah Baumbach

Zach Gottsagen

Rising Star Award
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Presented by: Michael Schwartz & Tyler Nilson

Cynthia Erivo

Breakthrough Performance Award
Harriet
Presented by: Lena Waithe

Adam Driver

Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Marriage Story
Presented by: Laura Dern

Jamie Foxx

Spotlight Award, Actor
Just Mercy
Presented by: Bryan Stevenson

Quentin Tarantino

Director of the Year Award
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Presented by: Greta Gerwig

2019 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 30th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Glenn Close Icon Award
The Wife
Presented by: Michael Keaton
Rami Malek Breakthrough Performance Award
Bohemian Rhapsody
Presented by: Christian Slater
Melissa McCarthy Spotlight Award, Actress
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Presented by: Richard E. Grant
Green Book Vanguard Award
Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
Peter Farrelly, Director; Kwame Parker, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Producers
Presented by: Jim Carrey
Alfonso Cuarón Sonny Bono Visionary Award
ROMA
Presented by: Gary Oldman
Bradley Cooper Director of the Year Award
A Star Is Born
Presented by: Sam Elliot
Regina King Chairman’s Award
If Beale Street Could Talk
Presented by: Barry Jenkins
Spike Lee Career Achievement Award
BlacKKKlansman
Presented by: John David Washington & Adam Driver
Olivia Colman Desert Palm Achievement Award
The Favourite
Presented by: Emma Stone
Timothée Chalamet Spotlight Award, Actor
Beautiful Boy
Presented by: Laura Dern
Mary Poppins Returns Ensemble Performance Award
Nathanael Saleh, Emily Blunt, Joel Dawnson, Pixie Davies
Presented by: Rob Marshall

2018 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 29th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Gal Gadot Rising Star Award, Actress
Wonder Woman
Presented by: Patty Jenkins
Timothée Chalamet Rising Star Award, Actor
Call Me By Your Name
Presented by: Armie Hammer
Sam Rockwell Spotlight Award, Actor
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MS
Presented by: Colin Farrell
Gary Oldman Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Darkest Hour
Presented by: Peter Fonda
Allison Janney Spotlight Award, Actress
I, Tonya
Presented by: Sebastian Stan
Holly Hunter Career Achievement Award
The Big Sick
Presented by: Kumail Nanjiani
The Shape of Water Vanguard Award
Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Guillermo del Toro, Alexandre Desplat & J. Miles Dale
Presented by: Salma Hayek
Jessica Chastain Chairman’s Award
Molly’s Game
Presented by: Aaron Sorkin
Saorise Ronan Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Lady Bird
Presented by: Laurie Metcalf
Mary J. Blige Breakthrough Performance Award
Mudbound
Presented by: Common
Willem Dafoe Icon Award
The Florida Project
Presented by: Sean Baker

2017 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 28th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Ruth Negga Rising Star Award, Actress
Loving
Presented by: Jeff Nichols & Joel Edgerton
Mahershala Ali Breakthrough Performance Award
Moonlight
Presented by: Janelle Monae
Nicole Kidman International Star Award
Lion
Presented by: Dev Patel
Andrew Garfield Spotlight Award
Hacksaw Ridge
Presented by: Laura Dern
Hidden Figures Ensemble Performance Award
Octavia Spencer, Kirsten Dunst, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monae, Glen Powell, Kimberly Quinn, Jim Parsons & Aldis Hodge
Presented by: Pharrell Williams
Natalie Portman Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Jackie
Presented by: Tom Hanks
Casey Affleck Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Manchester by the Sea
Presented by: Sir Ben Kingsley
Amy Adams Chairman’s Award
Arrival
Presented by: Andrew Garfield
Annette Bening Career Achievement Award
20th Century Women
Presented by: Mike Mills
La La Land Vanguard Award
Ryan Gosling, Justin Hurwitz, Damien Chazelle & Emma Stone
Presented by: Jane Lynch
Tom Hanks Icon Award
Sully
Presented by: Laura Linney

2016 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 27th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Alicia Vikander Rising Star Award
The Danish Girl
Presented by: Amber Heard
Tom McCarthy Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Spotlight
Presented by: Michael Keaton
Brie Larson Breakthrough Performance Award
Room
Presented by: Lenny Abrahamson & Jacob Tremblay
Rooney Mara Spotlight Award, Actress
Carol
Presented by: Ben Mendelsohn
Michael Fassbender International Star Award, Actor
Steve Jobs
Presented by: Kate Winslet
Saoirse Ronan International Star Award, Actress
Brooklyn
Presented by: Paul Dano
Bryan Cranston Spotlight Award, Actor
Trumbo
Presented by: Helen Mirren
Johnny Depp Chairman’s Award
Arrival
Presented by: Andrew Garfield
Annette Bening Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Black Mass
Presented by: Scott Cooper
The Big Short Ensemble Performance Award
Christian Bale, Finn Wittrock, Steve Carell & Jeremy Strong
Presented by: Adam McKay
Cate Blanchett Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Carol
Presented by: Saoirse Ronan
Matt Damon Chairman’s Award
The Martian
Presented by: Ridley Scott

2015 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 26th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Richard Linklater Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Boyhood
Presented by: Shirley MacLaine
Reese Witherspoon Chairman’s Award
Wild
Presented by: Laura Dern
Robert Duvall Icon Award
The Judge
Presented by: Robert Downey Jr.
Alejandro González Iñárritu Director of the Year Award
Birdman
Presented by: Michael Keaton
The Imitation Game Ensemble Performance Award
Matthew Beard, Benedict Cumberbatch, Allen Leech & Alex Lawther
Presented by: Morton Tyldum
Eddie Redmayne Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
The Theory of Everything
Presented by: Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Still Alice
Presented by: Steve Carell
Rosamund Pike Breakthrough Performance Award, Actress
Gone Girl
Presented by: Kim Dickens & Carrie Coon
David Oyelowo Breakthrough Performance Award, Actor
Selma
Presented by: Brad Pitt
J.K. Simmons Spotlight Award
Whiplash
Presented by: Jason Reitman

2014 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 25th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Thomas Newman Fredrick Loewe Award for Film Composing
Saving Mr. Banks
Presented by: John Lee Hancock & Colin Farrell
Steve McQueen Director of the Year
12 Years a Slave
Presented by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Lupita Nyong’o Breakthrough Performance Award
12 Years a Slave
Presented by: Alfre Woodard
Bruce Dern Career Achievement Award
Nebraska
Presented by: Jane Fonda
Julia Roberts Spotlight Award
Osage County
Presented by: Ewan McGregor
Matthew McConaughey Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Dallas Buyers Club
Presented by: Gary Oldman
U2 Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Ordinary Love: An Ode to Nelson Mandela
Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom
Presented by: Mary Bono, Idris Elba & Naomi Harris
American Hustle Ensemble Performance Award
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Rohm, Bradley Cooper & Jack Jones
Presented by: David O. Russell
Sandra Bullock Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Gravity
Presented by: Gena Rowlands
Tom Hanks Chairman’s Award
Captain Phillips & Saving Mr. Banks
Presented by: Julia Roberts
Meryl Streep Icon Award
Osage County
Presented by: Margo Martindale

2013 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 24th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Robert Zemeckis Director of the Year
Flight
Presented by: Tom Hanks
Mychael Danna Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing
Life of Pi
Presented by: Ang Lee
Helen Hunt Spotlight Award
The Sessions
Presented by: John Hawkes
Bradley Cooper Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Silver Linings Playbook
Presented by: David O. Russell
Helen Mirren International Star Award
Hitchcock
Presented by: Tom Hooper
Argo Ensemble Performance Award
Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin & Bryan Cranston
Presented by: Tony Mendez
Naomi Watts Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
The Impossible
Presented by: Tom Holland
Sally Field Career Achievement Award
Lincoln
Presented by: Martin Sheen
Richard Gere Chairman’s Award
Arbitrage
Presented by: Diane Lane
Tom Hooper Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Les Misérables
Presented by: Mary Bono Mack & Eddie Redmayne

2012 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 23rd Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Octavia Spencer Breakthrough Performance Award
The Help
Presented by: Melissa McCarthy
Howard Shore Fredrick Loewe Award for Film Composing
Hugo
Presented by: Mary Hart
Jessica Chastain Spotlight Award
The Tree of Life & The Help & Take Shelter & The Debt
Presented by: Al Pacino
Michael Hazanavicius Sonny Bono Visionary Award
The Artist
Presented by: Berenice Bejo, Jean Dujardin & Mary Bono
Young Adult Vanguard Award for Creative Ensemble
Charlize Theron, Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody & Patton Oswalt
Presented by: Olivia Wilde
Stephen Daldry Director of the Year Award
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Presented by: Tom Hanks & Thomas Horn
Gary Oldman International Star Award
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Presented by: Adrien Brody
Michelle Willimas Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
My Week with Marilyn
Presented by: Kenneth Branagh
Brad Pitt Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Moneyball & The Tree of Life
Presented by: Jonah Hill
Glenn Close Career Achievement Award
Albert Nobbs
Presented by: Jeff Goldblum
George Clooney Chairman’s Award
The Descendants
Presented by: Shailene Woodley & Grant Heslov

2011 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 22nd Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Jennifer Lawrence Rising Star Award
Winter’s Bone
Presented by: Oliver Stone
Carey Mulligan Breakthrough Performance Award
Never Let Me Go & Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Presented by: Andrew Garfield
Javier Bardem International Star Award
Biutiful
Presented by: Natalie Portman
Diane Warren Fredrick Loewe Music Award
Burlesque
Presented by: Taylor Hackford
David O. Russel Director of the Year Award
The Fighter
Presented by: Mark Wahlberg & Amy Adams
Colin Firth Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
The King’s Speech
Presented by: Helen Mirren
Danny Boyle Sonny Bono Visionary Award
127 Hours
Presented by: James Franco
Natalie Portman Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Black Swan
Presented by: Jake Gyllenhaal
Ben Affleck Chairman’s Award
The Town
Presented by: Amy Ryan
The Social Network Ensemble Performance Award
Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Rashida Jones, Armie Hammer, Josh Pence & Douglas Urbanski
Presented by: David Fincher
Robert Duvall Career Achievement Award
Get Low
Presented by: Aaron Eckhart

2010 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 21st Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Anna Kendrick Rising Star Award
Up In the Air
Presented by: Ivan Reitman
Jeremy Renner Breakthrough Performance Award, Actor
The Hurt Locker
Presented by: Shoreh Aghdashloo
Mariah Carey Breakthrough Performance Award, Actress
Precious
Presented by: Lee Daniels
T Bone Burnett Fredrick Loewe Award for Film Composing
Crazy Heart
Presented by: Sean Penn
Jason Reitman Director of the Year Award
Up In the Air
Presented by: Norman Jewison
Jeff Bridges Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Crazy Heart
Presented by: Michelle Pfeiffer
Quentin Tarantino Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Inglourious Basterds
Presented by: Diablo Cody
Marion Cotillard Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Nine
Presented by: Rob Marshall
Morgan Freeman Career Achievement Award, Actor
Invictus
Presented by: Clint Eastwood
Helen Mirren Career Achievement Award, Actress
The Last Station
Presented by: Morgan Freeman

2009 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 20th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Dakota Fanning Rising Star Award
The Secret Life of Bees
Presented by: Paul Bettany
Alexandre Desplat Fredrick Loewe Award for Film Composing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Presented by: Taraji P. Henson
Freida Pinto Breakthrough Performance Award
Slumdog Millionaire
Presented by: James Cromwell
Gus Van Zant Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Milk
Presented by: Mary Bono on VT from D.C & Josh Brolin
Amy Adams Spotlight Award
Doubt
Presented by: John Patrick Shanley
Anne Hathaway Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Rachel’s Getting Married
Presented by: Rosemarie DeWitt
Ron Howard Director’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Frost Nixon
Presented by: Frank Langella
Sean Penn Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Milk
Presented by: Cleve Jones
Dustin Hoffman Chairman’s Award for Career Achievement
Last Chance Harvey
Presented by: Ben Stiller
Revolutionary Road Ensemble Performance Award
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Shannon, Zoe Kazan, David Barbour
Presented by: Monica Yates
Clint Eastwood Career Achievement Award
Gran Torino
Presented by: Donald Sutherland

2008 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 19th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Nikki Blonsky Rising Star Award, Actress
Hairspray
Presented by: Adam Shankman & Rikki Lake
James Newton Howard Fredrick Loewe Award for Film Composing
Presented by: Ed Zwick
Emile Hirsch Rising Star Award, Actor
Into the Wild
Presented by: Laura Linney
Joe Wright Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Atonement
Presented by: Jamie Foxx & Mary Bono
Daniel Day Lewis Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
There Will Be Blood
Presented by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Juno Chairman’s Vanguard Award
Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody, Ellen/Elliot Page, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney & J.K. Simmons
Presented by: Drew Barrymore
Marion Cotillard Breakthrough Performance Award
La Vie en Rose
Presented by: Daniel Day Lewis
Sean Penn Director of the Year Award
Into the Wild
Presented by: Norman Jewison
Jerry Weintraub SAG Foundation Patron of the Arts Award
Presented by: Elliott Gould & Bruce Willis
Halle Berry Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
Things We Lost in the Fire
Presented by: Joe Singleton
Hairspray Ensemble Performance Award
John Travolta, Zac Efron, Allison Janney, Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Kelley, Brittany Snow
Presented by: Stockard Channing

2007 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 18th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Adam Beach Rising Star Award, Actor
Flags of Our Fathers
Presented by: Sienna Miller
Jessica Biel Rising Star Award, Actress
The Illusionist
Presented by: Sienna Miller
Little Miss Sunshine Chairman’s Vanguard Award
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, Michael Arndt, Alan Arkin & Abigail Breslin
Presented by: Jon Favreau
Philip Glass Fredrick Loewe Award for Film Composing
Presented by: Danny Elfman
Alejandro González Iñárritu Director of the Year Award
Babel
Presented by: Morgan Freeman
Kate Winslet Desert Palm Achievement Award
Little Children
Presented by: Todd Field
Babel Ensemble Performance Award
Cate Blanchett, Brat Pitt, Rinko Kikuchi & Adriana Barraza
Presented by: Mary Hart
Todd Field Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Little Children
Presented by: Sissy Spacek
Cate Blanchett Career Achievement in Acting Award
Babel
Presented by: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Sydney Pollack SAG Foundation Patron of the Arts Award
Presented by: Lawrence Fishburn

2006 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 17th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Felicity Huffman Breakthrough Performance Award
TransAmerica
Presented by: Fionnula Flanagan
Michael London Producer of the Year Award
The Family Stone
Presented by: Virginia Madsen
Terrence Howard Rising Star Award
Hustle & Flow
Presented by: Paul Haggis & Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges
David Cronenberg Sonny Bono Visionary Award
A History of Violence
Presented by: Viggo Mortensen
Charlize Theron Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress
North Country
Presented by: Keanu Reeves
Thomas Newman Fredrick Loewe Award for Film Composing
Presented by: Andrew Stanton
Jake Gyllenhaal Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor
Brokeback Mountain
Presented by: Peter Sarsgaard
Shirley MacLaine Lifetime Achievement Award
Rumor Has It
Presented by: Kathy Bates

2005 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 16th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Bryce Dallas Howard Rising Star Award
The Village
Presented by: Adrien Brody
Alexander Payne Director of the Year
Sideways
Presented by: Virginia Madsen
Laura Linney Desert Palm Achievement Award
Kinsey
Presented by: Bill Condon
Howard Shore Fredrick Loewe Award for Film Composing
Presented by: Javier Bardem & Adam Scott
Liam Neeson Desert Palm Achievement Award
Kinsey
Presented by: Lynn Redgrave
Kevin Spacey Sonny Bono Visionary Award for Acting, Producing and Directing
Presented by: Mary Bono
Samuel L. Jackson Career Achievement Award in Acting
Presented by: Kevin Spacey
Nicole Kidman The Chairman’s Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts
Presented by: Alejandro Amenabar
Kirk Douglas Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented by: Angelica Houston LIVE & Michael Douglas via VT

2004 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 15th Annual

Hosted by Mary Hart

Sidney Sheldon Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Presented by: Mary Bono
Jim Sheridan International Filmmaker Award for Directing & Producing
Presented by: Samantha Mprton & Djimon Hounsou
Scarlett Johansson Rising Star Award
Girl with a Pearl Earring & Lost in Translation
Presented by: Mike Medavoy
Danny Elfman Fredrick Loewe Award for Film Composing
Presented by: Brett Ratner
Richard D. Zanuck The Lifetime Achievement Award in Film Production
Presented by: William Friedkin
Anthony Minghella International Filmmaker Award for Writing and Directing
Presented by: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Naomi Watts Desert Palm Achievement Award
21 Grams
Presented by: Mark Ruffalo
Kevin Costner Career Achievement in the Art of Cinema
Presented by: Mary McDonnell

2003 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 14th Annual

Hosted by Lily Tomlin

Conrad Hall Career Achievement Award in Cinematography
(award accepted by Vilmos Zsigmond)
Presented by: Steven Zaillian
Stephen Daldry International Filmmakers Award
Presented by: Allison Janney
Michel Legrand Fredrick Loewe Award
Presented by: Quincy Jones
Mace Neufeld Career Achievement Award in Producing
Presented by: Philip Noyce & James Cromwell
Lynn Redgrave Career Achievement in Acting
Presented by: Vanessa Redgrave
Franco Zeffirelli Career Achievement in Directing
Presented by: Placido Domingo via VT & Lily Tomlin LIVE

2002 Palm Springs International Film Awards – 13th Annual

Hosted by Leonard Maltin

Arthur Hiller Director’s Achievement Award
Presented by: Red Buttons
Hans Zimmer Fredrick Loewe Award
Presented by: Mary Bono LIVE and Jerry Bruckheimer & Ridley Scott via VT
Bruno Delbonnel Da Vinci Award for Cinematography
Presented by: Vilmos Zsigmond
Irwin Winkler Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented by: Val Kilmer
Andy Garcia Golden Palm Award
Presented by: Jerry Weintraub