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‘Oppenheimer’ star Cillian Murphy to receive Desert Palm Acting Honor at Palm Springs International Film Awards
Baku, November 18, AZERTAC
“Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. Murphy will be honored for his role as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s film at the Film Awards on Jan. 4 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, according to Variety.
Murphy also collaborated with Nolan on “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Inception” and “Dunkirk.”
“Murphy gives a stunning portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer as a conflicted scientist leading the Manhattan Project to produce the world’s first atomic bomb,” said Festival Chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi. “For this career-best performance, we are honored to present the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, to Cillian Murphy.”
Previous recipients of the actor award include Riz Ahmed, Jeff Bridges, Bradley Cooper, Daniel Day- Lewis and Adam Driver.
The Palm Springs International Film Awards will honor Emma Stone with the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, for Searchlight Pictures “Poor Things.” Stone will receive the honor at the Jan. 4 awards at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
Emma Stone was previously honored at the festival with the Vanguard Award in 2016 alongside co-star Ryan Gosling and director Damien Chazelle for “La La Land.”
The Palm Springs International Film Awards announced that “Killers of the Flower Moon” will receive the Vanguard Award, which honors a film’s cast and director for their collective work on an exceptional film project. Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone will be presented with the award at the gala ceremony, which takes place Jan. 4 at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
Best picture winners “Green Book” and “The Shape of Water” have previously received the Vanguard Award, along with best picture nominees “Belfast,” “La La Land,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Fablemans” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
Based on a true story, Apple Original Films’ “Killers of the Flower Moon” chronicles the spree of murders targeting the Osage Nation told through the romance between DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart and Gladstone’s Mollie Kyle.
The Palm Springs Film Festival will run through Jan. 15, and Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts will sponsor the event.