Amy Adams and Ethan Hawke are set to receive the Actress and Actor Tributes at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, the Independent Filmmaker Project announced Wednesday. In addition, Oliver Stone will be honored with the Director Tribute.
The first ceremony of the awards season, the Gotham Awards is one of the major independent film showcases. Recent winners include “Spotlight,” which took home Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards, as well as “Inside Llewyn Davis,” “The Act of Killing” and “How to Survive a Plague.”
This year’s ceremony will be held on Monday, November 28 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
“We are honored to have Amy Adams, Ethan Hawke, and Oliver Stone as our Actress, Actor, and Director Tribute honorees at this year’s Gotham Awards,” Joana Vicente, Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center said in a statement.
“Each with a remarkable body of work that continues to challenge, thrill, and inspire audiences, we are proud to celebrate their numerous artistic achievements and honor their contributions to the landscape of cinema with these Tributes.”
Adams most recently starred in Warner Bros. “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and will feature in “Arrival” and “Nocturnal Animals” later this year.
Hawke’s next project is Sony’s “The Magnificent Seven,” which hits theaters Sept. 23.
And Stone is the director of Open Road’s “Snowden,” based on the life of the former National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, which comes out Sept. 16.