Carey Mulligan to Receive International Star Award, Actress at Palm Springs Film Awards

4 December 2023 | Source

The Palm Springs International Film Awards will present Carey Mulligan with the International Star Award, Actress for her performance in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, a biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, and the festival will run through January 15, 2024. Carey Mulligan is an Academy Award-nominated actress who has starred in films such as An Education, Promising Young Woman, Wildlife, Mudbound, Suffragette, The Great Gatsby, and She Said.

The Palm Springs International Film Society has announced that Carey Mulligan will be the recipient of the International Star Award, Actress for her portrayal of Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro. The Film Awards will be held on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, as part of the festival that will last until January 15, 2024. The event is sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts.

“Carey Mulligan delivers a stunning role as Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein, the wife of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein, in this historical and personal film that explores the highs and lows of true love and artistic passion,” said Festival Chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi. “We are delighted to honor Carey Mulligan with the International Star Award, Actress for her remarkable contribution to world cinema.”

Mulligan joins other honorees of this year’s Film Awards, such as Emma Stone (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress), Cillian Murphy (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Breakthrough Performance Award), Greta Gerwig (Director of the Year), Jeffrey Wright (Career Achievement Award) and Killers of the Flower Moon (Vanguard Award). Previous winners of the International Star Award, Actress include Michelle Yeoh, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Helen Mirren, Saoirse Ronan and Charlize Theron. Michelle Yeoh won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once, while Cruz (Parallel Mothers) and Ronan (Lady Bird) were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in their respective years.

Maestro is a film that chronicles the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein, a love story that celebrates life and art. Maestro features performances from Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, as well as Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, Sarah Silverman, Josh Hamilton, Scott Ellis, Gideon Glick, Sam Nivola, Alexa Swinton, and Miriam Shor. The film will be released by Netflix.

Carey Mulligan is an Academy Award-nominated actress who rose to fame with her starring role in An Education, which earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and nominations for an Academy Award and SAG Award. Mulligan was nominated for her second Oscar in the Lead Actress category for her performance in Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut Promising Young Woman. She also received awards from the Critics’ Choice Association, the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and over 20 critics groups around the country.

Her other film credits include: She Said, Wildlife, Mudbound, Suffragette, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Dig, Inside Llweyn Davis, The Great Gatsby, Shame, Drive, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, Brothers, Public Enemies, The Greatest, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Pride & Prejudice. Her television credits include Collateral, My Boy Jack, Doctor Who, Northanger Abbey, The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard, Waking the Dead, Miss Marple, Bleak House and Trial & Retribution. Her next project is Netflix’s Spaceman alongside Adam Sandler, a science fiction drama film based on Jaroslav Kalfař’s novel by the same name.