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UIPDATED, 10:23 AM: Cate Blanchett, the two-time Oscar winner and seven-time nominee whose latest film Tár premiered at Venice and won her the lead acting prize, will receive the 2023 for Desert Palm Achievement, Actress, award from the Palm Springs Film Festival. She stars in the pic as Lydia Tár…

Mexico’s Oscar-shortlisted Prayers For the Stolen directed by Tatiana Huezo won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best International Feature Film at the Palm Springs Film Festival, which revealed its juried winners Wednesday despite being forced to cancel its 2022 edition. The festival, which had been scheduled to run January…

Organizers have canceled the 2022 Palm Springs International Film Festival over Covid fears. The event, which had been set for January 7-17 in the desert city east of Los Angeles, already had canceled its January 6 awards gala. The 2021 event also was canceled after initially being pushed to a February-March run. Here…

The Palm Springs Film Festival gala awards show set for Thursday, January 6 has been canceled due to Covid surge concerns. Among those Oscar-buzzed contenders scheduled to receive awards were Being the Ricardos star Nicole Kidman, Belfast (Vanguard Award) presented to writer and director Kenneth Branagh and cast…

UPDATED with latest winner: The Palm Springs International Film Awards said Thursday that House of Gucci star Lady Gaga will receive the Icon Award during the film awards gala next month that kicks off the Palm Springs Film Festival. The Film Awards will take place in-person January 6 at the Palm Springs Convention…

The Palm Springs Film Festival is set to return as an in-person gathering in 2022. The festival’s annual Film Awards Gala will take place on on Thursday, January 6, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with film screenings (including the opening-night presentation) beginning that Friday. The festival will wrap…

UPDATED with latest winner:  The Palm Springs Film Festival said Wednesday Yuh-Jung Youn is the recipient of the 2021 Spotlight Award, Actress for her role in A24’s Minari. The Lee Isaac Chung-directed pic about how one generation of a Korean American family risks everything to plant dreams for the next on their…

Covid-19 sent most film festivals — and the rest of us — running for cover in 2020. This year, most upcoming fests are pushing their dates in hopes of running out the clock on Covid. Those that can’t are either canceling, going virtual or attempting some sort of hybrid model. With Sundance just out of the gate, we…

The Palm Springs International Film Festival Society said Monday that it has canceled its 32nd annual Palm Springs Film Festival that had most recently been scheduled for February 25-March 8, 2021. The organizers did say that the fest’s annual Film Awards gala will still take place as planned. Unlike the virtual or…

The Palm Springs Film Festival has set new dates for the 32nd annual confab. The festival, which usually takes place in early January, will now run from February 25-March 8, 2021, kicking off with its annual Film Awards Gala at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The fest announced Friday that the date change was to…

UPDATED with Audience Award winners: The 31st annual Palm Springs Film Festival has named the Bhutan drama Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom the winner of its Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, and Gay Chorus Deep South its Audience Award for Best Documentary. The news Sunday comes after the fest yesterday…

Antonio Banderas will receive the 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s International Star Award, Actor for his performance in Pain and Glory, the fest announced today. The award will be presented at the festival’s Film Awards Gala on Thursday, Jan. 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The…