Glenn Close and Hugh Jackman to be Honored at the HOLLYWOOD FILM AWARDS

dick clark productions announced today several spectacular additions to the list of honorees at the 22nd Annual "Hollywood Film Awards." Glenn Close will receive the "Hollywood Actress Award" for her stunning performance in Sony Pictures Classic's The Wife, while Hugh Jackman will be recognized for his powerful turn in Sony Pictures' The Front Runner. Damien Chazelle will receive the "Hollywood Director Award" for his work on Universal Pictures' First Man.

They join previously announced honorees Nicole Kidman, who will receive this year's "Hollywood Career Achievement Award," Timothée Chalamet and Rachel Weisz, who will receive the "Hollywood Supporting Actor Award" and "Hollywood Supporting Actress Award," respectively, Crazy Rich Asians, which will receive the "Hollywood Breakout Ensemble Award," Amandla Stenberg, who will receive the "Hollywood Breakout Performance Actress Award," John David Washington, who will receive the "Hollywood Breakout Performance Actor Award," Felix Van Groeningen, who will receive the "Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award," and Yalitza Aparicio, who will receive the "New Hollywood Award." The 22nd Annual "Hollywood Film Awards" will take place on Sunday, November 4 at The Beverly Hilton.

The "Hollywood Film Awards," honoring the most acclaimed films and actors while previewing highly anticipated films and talent for the upcoming year, also acknowledges artists in the categories of Cinematography, Visual Effects, Film Composing, Costume Design, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Makeup & Hairstyling. In its 22-year history, more than 320 of the world's biggest stars and filmmakers have been highlighted at the "Hollywood Film Awards" and more than 130 of the honorees have gone on to garner Oscar nominations and/or wins.

ABOUT THE HONOREES

A six-time Academy Award nominee, Glenn Close made her feature film debut in George Roy Hill's The World According to Garp, earning her awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review as well as her first Academy Award nomination. She was subsequently Oscar-nominated for The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction and Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons (for which she was also a BAFTA Award nominee). Close stars in the title role of Jane Anderson's film adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's bestselling novel, The Wife, with Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater for Swedish director Björn Runge, which opened earlier this year. Close also stars in the title role of Jane Anderson's stage play, Mother of the Maid, which just premiered in New York at the Public Theater. Close received her sixth Academy Award nomination in 2012, along with Golden Globe and SAG nominations, for Albert Nobbs, having co-written the screenplay with man Booker Prize-winning author, John Banville. Close was also a producer on the film and composed the lyrics for the Golden Globe and World Soundtrack- nominated song, "Lay Your Head Down." Glenn Close made her theatre, and Broadway, debut in Harold Prince's revival of Love for Love. Her theater credits include The Crucifer of Blood, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (Obie Award), Barnum (Tony nomination) and TONY AWARDS for her performances in The Real Thing and Death and the Maiden, both directed by Mike Nichols, and for her performance in the highly-anticipated revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard. Starting in 2007, Close headlined the critically- acclaimed, legal thriller, Damages, for five seasons. For her riveting portrayal of high-stakes litigator 'Patty Hewes', Close won two consecutive Emmys as "Best Actress in a Drama Series" and two subsequent Emmy nominations, along with a Golden Globe Award and three SAG Award nominations. Close's twelve Golden Globe nominations include a Best Actress win for Andrei Konchalovsky's adaptation of The Lion in Winter (which also earned her a SAG Award). Among the television projects that have brought her twelve Emmy nominations, is an Emmy Award for her performance as Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (for which she also received a Peabody Award as executive producer). In 2009, Close co-founded the charity Bring Change To Mind, whose mission is to confront the stigma and misunderstanding around mental illness by "starting the conversation." The idea for the organization came about following Close's first-hand observation of battles with mental illness within her family.

Hugh Jackman can currently be seen in the Jason Reitman directed feature film, The Front Runner. Based on the true story of American Senator Gary Hart's tumultuous political run for the office of President of the United States in 1988. Jackman is a multi-award-winning actor on stage and screen. He was last seen as P.T. Barnum in the worldwide phenomenon The Greatest Showman. He is a co-founder of Laughing Man Coffee and a worldwide Ambassador for Global Citizen, among other philanthropic efforts.

Academy Award® winner Damien Chazelle most recently wrote and directed the musical LA LA LAND, which earned fourteen Oscar nominations, winning six awards, including Best Director for Chazelle, who is the youngest director to receive the award. The film also won a record-breaking seven Golden Globes, and was also honored with five BAFTA wins and eleven nominations. His previous film, 2014's Whiplash, received five Academy Award nominations and three wins, including Best Supporting Actor for J.K. Simmons. His 2013 short, based on the Whiplash screenplay, won the Short Film Jury Prize at Sundance, and the following year the feature film took home both the Jury and Audience Awards from the festival. Chazelle made his first feature, Guy And Madeline on a Park Bench, as an undergraduate student at Harvard University. The film was named one of the Best Films of the Year by The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, LA Weekly, The Village Voice, and others. Upcoming in TV, Chazelle has a musical drama The Eddy for Netflix, and a straight-to-series order for a drama series for Apple which he will direct and executive produce.

Additional honorees for the 22nd Annual "Hollywood Film Awards" will be announced in the coming weeks.

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