Amanda Seyfried will receive the Desert Palm Lifetime Achievement Award for Actress at the Palm Springs International Film Awards on January 3 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The festival will run from January 2nd to January 12th.
Seyfried will receive the award for her performance as Ang Lee in Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ang Lee.
“Amanda Seyfried gives a masterful performance in ‘The Testament of Ang Lee,’ a performance that is both haunting in its emotional intensity and deeply human in its authenticity,” festival president Nahattar Singh Chandy said in a statement. “Throughout her remarkable career, she has continued to evolve, take bold risks, and elevate every story she inhabits. We are honored to present her with the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress of the Year.”
Seyfried will join other honorees including Michael B. Jordan, who will receive the Icon Award, Leonardo DiCaprio, who will receive the Desert Palm Lifetime Achievement Award for Actor, Ethan Hawke, who will receive the festival’s Career Achievement Award, and Adam Sandler, who will receive the Chairman’s Award.
Other winners included “Hamnet” director Chloe Zhao, actors Jesse Buckley and Paul Mescal, who won this year’s Vanguard Award, and “Sentimental Value” cast members Renate Rijnsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ybsdotter Lilleas and Elle Fanning, who won the International Star Award.
Seyfried previously won an Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for her role as Elizabeth Holmes on Hulu’s The Dropout. She was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role as Marion Davis in David Fincher’s Mank.
