HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 15th
Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, presented by
Starz Entertainment, are pleased to announce honorees who will be
recognized for their achievements at the festival's Hollywood
Awards Gala Ceremony, which will take place at the Beverly Hilton
Hotel in Beverly Hills on
October 24, 2011.
Producer Letty Aronson will
receive the "Hollywood Producer Award" for "Midnight in
Paris," director Michel Hazanavicius will be honored with the
"Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award" for "The Artist,"
screenwriter Diablo Cody will be
honored with the "Hollywood Screenwriter Award" for "Young Adult"
and film composer Alberto Iglesias
will be recognized with the "Hollywood Film Composer Award" for
"Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy" and "The Skin I Live In."
"We are very proud to recognize the films and work of these
talented filmmakers," said Carlos de
Abreu, Founder of the Hollywood Awards Gala.
The 2011 Hollywood Film Festival has also announced that they
will honor five-time Oscar nominee Glenn
Close with the "Hollywood Career Achievement Award," Academy
Award-nominated actress Michelle
Williams with the "Hollywood Actress Award" for "My Week
with Marilyn," Academy Award-nominated actor Christopher Plummer with the "Hollywood
Supporting Actor Award" for "Beginners," actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt with the "Hollywood
Breakthrough Actor Award" for "50/50," actress Jessica Chastain with the "Hollywood
Breakthrough Actress Award" for "The Tree of Life," "Coriolanus,"
"The Debt," "The Help," and "Take Shelter," and actress
Felicity Jones with the "New
Hollywood Award" for "Like Crazy." Other honorees include the cast
of "The Help" (Jessica Chastain,
Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Chris
Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly, Octavia
Spencer, Emma Stone,
Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Cicely
Tyson, and Mike Vogel),
Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, Editor Stephen Mirrione, Production Designer James
Murakami, and Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Farrar at their annual Awards Gala. In
addition, Gore Verbinski's "Rango" will be honored at the Hollywood
Film Awards Gala Ceremony, along with additional honorees to be
announced in the coming weeks.
ABOUT LETTY ARONSON
Letty Aronson latest film was
Woody Allen's "Midnight In Paris."
She previously produced Woody
Allen's "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger," "Whatever
Works," Golden Globe winner "Vicky Cristina
Barcelona," "Cassandra's Dream," "Scoop," "Match Point,"
"Melinda," "Hollywood Ending," and "The Curse of The Jade
Scorpion."
She is producing "Relatively Speaking," three one-act comedies
by Woody Allen, Ethan Cohen, Elaine
May and directed by John
Turturro which opens in September
2011.
Her extensive film, television, and stage experience includes
numerous other collaborations with Mr. Allen. She
co-executive-produced such films as "Don't Drink The Water," which
marked Mr. Allen's first foray into television moviemaking;
"Bullets Over Broadway," which garnered seven Academy Award
nominations, winning for Best Supporting Actress (Dianne Wiest); "Mighty Aphrodite," for which
Mira Sorvino was awarded the Best
Supporting Actress Oscar; and "Sweet and Lowdown," for which
Sean Penn and Samantha Morton both earned Oscar nominations.
Her other credits as a co-executive producer include Mr. Allen's
highly acclaimed musical comedy "Everyone Says I Love You," and his
"Celebrity," "Deconstructing Harry, and "Small Time Crooks."
In addition, she co-executive-produced "The Spanish Prisoner,"
written for the screen and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright and critically acclaimed filmmaker David Mamet. Critics
universally praised the film when it was released in 1998. She also
co-executive-produced "Into My Heart," which was written and
directed by two newcomers, Sean
Smith and Anthony Stark; and
Coky Giedroyc's "Women Talking Dirty," which marked Ms. Aronson's
first European co-production with Elton
John's Rocket Pictures.
ABOUT DIABLO CODY
Diablo won a WGA Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and the Oscar®
for Best Original Screenplay for her film "Juno," which was
released by Fox Searchlight. Following "Juno," she wrote the horror
film, "Jennifer's Body" which was released by Fox in September 2009.
Cody was the creator and executive producer of the SHOWTIME hit
series "United States of Tara" for
which Toni Colette took home the Emmy® and Golden Globe Award for
Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
Currently, Cody wrote and is producing a big screen version of
Francine Pascal's New York Times best-selling book series
Sweet Valley High with Universal/Marc Platt. Diablo is writing/executive
producing a new comedy series in development for Fox Network and
Warners Studios. She recently completed a rewrite for the new "Evil
Dead" movie, produced by Sam Raimi.
Her newest and much buzzed about feature with Mandate, Young
Adult, is set to be released in December of 2011. It is
directed by Jason Reitman, who also
directed "Juno."
Cody has been profiled in countless publications and was
formerly a columnist for Entertainment Weekly. Her
critically acclaimed memoir Candy Girl was published in
2004. Diablo has also launched an internet show "Red Band Trailer"
which is a talk show that features celebrities in her Airstream
trailer.
ABOUT ALBERTO IGLESIAS
Perhaps best known for his landmark collaborations with director
Pedro Almodovar, Alberto Iglesias is Spain's most acclaimed composer. In addition
to his work with Almodovar, Iglesias has received Oscar nominations
for his scores for Fernando
Meirelles' "The Constant Gardener" and Marc Forster's "The Kite Runner." Iglesias also
received BAFTA nominations for both "The Constant Gardener" and
"The Kite Runner" and a Golden Globe nomination for "The Kite
Runner." For Almodovar's "Volver," Iglesias won the European Film
Award for Best Original Score and the World Soundtrack Award for
Composer of the Year. He has received nine Goya awards
(Spain's top film honor) and
numerous other European accolades.
Iglesias' most recent score is for Tomas
Alfredson's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" starring
Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom
Hardy and John Hurt. The film
received its world premiere to rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival and will be released by
Focus Features in December. He has also completed his most recent
collaboration with Almodovar, "The Skin I Live In" starring
Antonio Banderas, which premieres at
the Toronto and New York Film
Festivals and will be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. This
year also saw the release of Iglesias' critically acclaimed
"Tambien La Lluvia," directed by Iciar Bollain, and the French
production "The Monk," directed by Dominik
Moll.
Iglesias has also collaborated with American directors
Steven Soderbergh (the two films
about Che Guevara starring
Benicio Del Toro), Oliver Stone ("Comandante") and John Malkovich ("The Dancer Upstairs"). His work
with Almodovar includes 2009's "Broken Embraces," starring
Penelope Cruz, as well as "All About
My Mother," "Bad Education" and the Oscar-winning "Talk to Her" and
"Volver," He has also worked with such top Spanish directors as
Julio Medem and Carlos Saura.
Iglesias' classical studies included piano, guitar and
electronic music as well as composition. In addition to his film
scores, his work has been performed in concert halls around the
world as well as in several notable ballets for renowned
choreographer Nacho Duato and the Spanish National Dance Company.
His concert pieces include "Cautiva", "Tabulae", "Cero Sobre Cero"
and "Self" as well as his most recent, "In the Land of the Lemon
Trees", which received its world premiere featuring celebrated
soprano Dawn Upshaw in Chicago in 2009.
The festival and awards will mark their return on October 20 for a week long series of screenings,
competitions and awards. The Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony will
take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 24, 2011.
ABOUT MICHEL
HAZANAVICIUS
Michel Hazanavicius is a French
screenwriter, producer and director. In addition to THE ARTIST, his
other credits include OSS 117: LOST IN RIO (2009), OSS 117:
CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES (2006), MES
AMIS (1999) and LA CLASSE AMERICAINE (1993).
ABOUT STARZ ENTERTAINMENT, LLC:
The festival and awards presenter is Starz Entertainment, LLC, a
premium movie and original programming entertainment service
provider operating in the United
States. The company offers 17 premium channels including the
flagship STARZ® and ENCORE® brands with approximately 19 million
and 32.9 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs
in total more than 1,000 movies and original series every month
across its pay TV channels. Starz Entertainment is recognized as a
pay TV leader in providing HD, On Demand, HD On Demand and online
advanced services for its STARZ, ENCORE and MOVIEPLEX brands. Starz
Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC,
which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation and
is attributed to the Liberty Starz tracking stock group (NASDAQ:
LSTZA).
SOURCE Hollywood Film
Festival