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19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival

January 3-14, 2008

Gala Awards

Gala date		Jan. 5
Sonny Bono Visionary Award		Joe Wright
Desert Palm Achievement Award		Halle Berry Daniel Day-Lewis
Breakthrough Performance Award		Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Rising Star Award		Nikki Blonsky Emile Hirsch
Chairman's Vanguard Award		Juno
Ensemble Cast Award		Cast of Hairspray (Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, Allison Janney, Elijah Kelley, Queen Latifah, James Marsden, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brittany Snow, John Travolta, Christopher Walken)
Director of the Year Award		Sean Penn, Into the Wild
Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing		James Newton Howard
Screen Actors Guild Foundation Patron of the Arts Award		Jerry Weintraub
Emcee		Mary Hart

Festival Awards

Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature		Then She Found Me Helen Hunt (USA)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature		Autism: The Musical Tricia Regan (USA)
FIPRESCI Award for Best Foreign Language Film		Armin Ognjen Svilicic (Croatia)
FIPRESCI Award Best Actor		Song Gang-ho Secret Sunshine (South Korea)
FIPRESCI Award Best Actress		Anamaria Marinca & Laura Vasiliu 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania)
New Voices/New Visions Award		Hounds Ann-Kristin Reyels (Germany)
John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature		Nadav Schirman The Champagne Spy (Israel)
Special Jury Mention		The Waltz Salvatore Maira (Italy)
Special Jury Mention for Cinematography		Two Embraces Frederico Barbarosa (Mexico)
Heineken Red Star Award		Nic Balthazar Ben X (Belgium)
Bridging the Borders Award		The Band's Visit Eran Kolinn (Israel)

 

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18th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival

January 4-15, 2007

Gala Awards

Gala date		Jan. 6
Sonny Bono Visionary Award		Todd Field
Career Achievement Award		Cate Blanchett
Desert Palm Achievement Award		Kate Winslet
Breakthrough Performance Award		Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rising Star Award		Adam Beach Jessica Biel
Chairman's Vanguard Award		Little Miss Sunshine
Ensemble Cast Award		Cast of Babel (Adriana Barraza, Gael García Bernal, Cate Blanchett, Boubker Ait El Caid, Rinko Kikuchi, Brad Pitt, Said Tarchani, Kôji Yakusho)
Director of the Year Award		Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel
Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing		Philip Glass
Screen Actors Guild Foundation Patron of the Arts Award		Sydney Pollack
Emcee		Mary Hart

Festival Awards

Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature		The Lives of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Germany)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature		Blindsight Lucy Walker (UK)
FIPRESCI Award for Best Foreign Language Film		Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro (Mexico)
FIPRESCI Award Best Actor		Mads Mikkelsen After the Wedding (Denmark/Sweden)
FIPRESCI Award Best Actress		Blanca Lewin In Bed (Germany/Chile)
New Voices/New Visions Special Jury Prize		Agua Verónica Chen (Argentina)
New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize		It’s Winter Rafi Pitts (Iran)
John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature		John Jeffcoat Outsourced (USA)

 

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17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival

January 5-16, 2006

Gala Awards

Gala date		Jan. 7
Sonny Bono Visionary Award		David Cronenberg
Lifetime Achievement Award		Shirley MacLaine
Desert Palm Achievement Award		Jake Gyllenhaal Charlize Theron
Breakthrough Performance Award		Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Rising Star Award		Terrence Howard
Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing		Thomas Newman
Producer of the Year Award		Michael London
Emcee		Mary Hart

Festival Awards

Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature		Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Dan Ireland (UK); Mother of Mine Klaus Härö (Finland)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature		Five Days in September Barbara Willis Sweete (Canada)
FIPRESCI Award for Best Foreign Language Film		Buffalo Boy Minh Nguyen-Vo (Vietnam)
FIPRESCI Award Best Actor		Ion Fiscuteanu The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania)
FIPRESCI Award Best Actress		Meltem Cumbul Lovelorn (Turkey)
New Voices/New Visions Award		Love + Hate Dominic Savage (UK)
New Voices/New Visions Special Jury Prize