Palm Springs International Film Awards 2022

Celebrate the Brightest Stars of the Year at the 33rd Annual Film Awards

Thursday January 6 at the Palm Springs Convention Center

Toast the year's top talents at the Palm Springs International Film Festival's star-studded annual Film Awards celebrations.

The Palm Springs International Film Festival's annual Film Awards returns live on Thursday, January 6 at the Palm Springs Convention Center for another unforgettable celebration of the year’s greatest achievements in filmmaking. For more than 30 years this can’t-miss kickoff to awards season has brought the world’s biggest actors,filmmakers and industry heavyweights to Palm Springs for the hottest eventon the city’s cultural calendar. With the support of our presenting sponsor andproud partner, American Express; our title sponsor, the City of Palm Springs;our host Mary Hart and Entertainment Tonight; and our enthusiastic attendees,the Film Awards marks the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Palm SpringsInternational Film Society.

This year’s honorees include some of the world’s most admired actors and filmmakers working at the height of their craft. Jane Campion has once again amazed audiences with her first feature film in more than a decade, the family psychodrama wrapped in a Western, The Power of the Dog, earningher Director of the Year honors. Kenneth Branagh and the marvelous, three generation ensemble cast of Belfast receive the Vanguard Award for the versatile filmmaker’s intimate coming-of-age story set amid the outbreak of sectarian violence in 1960s Northern Ireland.

A trio of today’s top actresses have made career highlights with their incredible,complex takes on three hugely iconic women: Desert Palm Achievement Award winner Jessica Chastain gets under the surface of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye; Spotlight Award winner Kristen Stewart embodies an embattled Princess Diana in Spencer; and Chairman’s Award recipient Jennifer Hudson mines the darkness that shaped Aretha Franklin inthe biopic Respect.

In one of the most poignant performances of her career, International Star Award honoree Penélope Cruz navigates the dramatic twists and turns a woman’s life takes following an unexpected pregnancy in longtime collaborator Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers. Andrew Garfield earns the Desert Palm Achievement Award for his inspired turn as influential Rent playwright Jonathan Larson in Tick, Tick... Boom! And Will Smith, as the coach and father of future tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams (played by magnetic newcomers Demi Singleton and Saniyya Sidney), leads the Ensemble Performance Award-winning cast of the rousing true story, King Richard.

A reliably star-studded roster of surprise presenters adds to the excitement of the first event of the awards season. For tickets visit www.psfilmfest.org.

MORE HONOREES TO BE ANNOUNCED

Belfast

Vanguard Award - Belfast

Focus Features

Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh

Cast includes Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds and Jude Hill

Kristen Stewart

Spotlight Award, Actress - Kristen Stewart

Spencer

Neon/Topic Studios

Penélope Cruz

International Star Award - Penélope Cruz

Parallel Mothers

Sony Pictures Classics

Jessica Chastain

Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress - Jessica Chastain

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Searchlight Pictures

Jane Campion

Director of the Year Award - Jane Campion

The Power of the Dog

Netflix

Jennifer Hudson

Chairman's Award - Jennifer Hudson

Respect

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures/United Artists Releasing

Andrew Garfield

Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor - Andrew Garfield

Tick, Tick...Boom!

Netflix

King Richard

Ensemble Performance Award - King Richard

Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast includes Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Jon Bernthal and Tony Goldwyn