Film distributor Hope Runs High and production house Karmic Release Ltd. threw the opening night bash for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series. Running until February 12, 2020, it is the first retrospective to celebrate Grant's work as both actor and director.
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Lee Grant is a survivor of The Hollywood Blacklist whose films became some of the most influential of the New Hollywood era. Over the course of her 70+ year career she has been nominated for for three Academy Awards winning a fourth for her role in the Hal Ashby/Warren Beatty classic Shampoo. Turning her attention to directing she helmed the Academy Award winning Down and Out in America, she is the first woman to win the Directors Guild award.
A multi-generational group of writers, filmmakers, artists, and stars came out to celebrate Grant's massive body of work. Brenda Vaccaro, Tyne Daly, Diane Baker, and Bill Pullman were just a few of the familiar faces spotted in the crowd that night. LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER runs until February 12, 2020 at Manhattan's Film Forum and will launch the Hope Runs High re-release of Grant's non-fiction work, expanding digitally and to repertory cinemas in 2020.
Grant has a small role in the upcoming music film Killian & the Comeback Kids.
Lee Grant and artist Jason Bard Yarmosky attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Lee Grant, Joseph Feury, and Carol Oditz arrive at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Taylor A. Purdee and David Lewis chat at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Lee Grant and David Lewis attend the the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Filmmaker Taylor A. Purdee arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actor Tyne Daly arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Artist Peter McGough arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actors John Donchak and Lee Grant attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actors Trent Dawson and Lee Grant attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actor Diane Baker and and Director Dennis Powers attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.August Rush: The Musical's Sydney Shepherd arrives at the the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Dickinson's Adrian Blake Enscoe arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actors Sydney Shepherd and Adrian Blake Enscoe attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Cinematographer Hart Perry and Lee Grant attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.A Bread Factory's Jonathan Iglesias arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Filmmaker Patrick Wang arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Lee Grant and producers Suzanne Curry, Roberta Morris Purdee peruse Grant's memoir I Said Yes to Everything, at the opening night of Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actor Art Shiran arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Musician David Lewis arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Musician Regina Strayhorn arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actors Brenda Vaccaro and Tyne Daly attend the opening night of Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Project Runway's Lauren Karaman arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Lauren Karaman and Taylor A. Purdee attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Lee Grant, Fred Murphy, and Maryte Kavaliauskas attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Diane Baker, Lee Grant, and Dennis Powers attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actor John Donchak arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Emmy Favorites Diane Baker and Joseph Feury chat at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.John Donchak and Annelise Wiering attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Editor Susan Ades and actor Mark Zeisler arrive at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actor Cynthia Adler arrives at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Lee Grant and author Bryan Norton attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actors Sydney Shepherd, Adrian Blake Enscoe, and Taylor A. Purdee chat during the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.John Donchak, Suzanne Curry, and Taylor A. Purdee attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Raj Tawney and Lee Grant attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Killian & the Comeback Kids' John Donchak, Lee Grant, and Taylor A. Purdee attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Lee Grant inscribes a copy of her memoir I Said Yes to Everything to a fan at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Actor Jonathan Iglesias and filmmakers Patrick Wang, Taylor A. Purdee attend the opening night of Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Grant's legacy connects with a new generation of actors and filmworkers at the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Lee Grant and longtime costume designer Carol Oditz attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Diane Baker and Joseph Feury attend the Hope Runs High opening night party for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.A Bread Factory's Tyne Daly and director Patrick Wang attend the opening night of Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Lee Grant signs a copy of her memoir to her Killian & the Comeback Kids castmate John Donchak at the opening night of Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Bruce Goldstein and Lee Grant in conversation after In the Heat of the Night during the opening night of Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.A fan thumbs through Grant's memoir, I Said Yes to Everything, at the opening night of Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.Lee Grant inaugurates the opening night of Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER series.
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