Jamie Foxx will receive the Spotlight Award, Actor at the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s 2020 Awards Gala, PSIFF organizers announced on Thursday.
Foxx will receive the award for his performance in Destin Daniel Cretton’s “Just Mercy,” a fact-based drama in which he plays Walter McMillian, a man falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Alabama in 1987. Michael B. Jordan co-stars in the film as Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative and worked to free McMillian and many other convicts denied justice because of their race and poverty.
Foxx was recently nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for the film.
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Other honorees at this year’s gala are Antonio Banderas, Laura Dern, Adam Driver, Cynthia Erivo, Zack Gottsagen, Jennifer Lopez, Joaquin Phoenix, Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron and Renee Zellweger.
The gala will take place on Thursday, Jan. 2 in the Palm Springs Convention Center. The festival will continue until Jan. 13 in the desert resort east of Los Angeles.
2020 Oscar Contenders, From Awkwafina to Renee Zellweger (Exclusive Photos)
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Actress Awkwafina, "The Farewell"
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Actor Antonio Banderas, "Pain and Glory"
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Director Bong Joon Ho, "Parasite"
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Actors Finn Wittrock, Renée Zellweger and director Rupert Goold, "Judy"
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Director Sam Mendes, "1917"
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George MacKay, Sam Mendes, and Dean-Charles Chapman, "1917"
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Actor Aldis Hodge, "Clemency"
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Actress Cynthia Erivo, "Harriet"
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Director Kasi Lemmons, "Harriet"
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Actress Florence Pugh, "Little Women"
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Actor Taron Egerton, "Rocketman"
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Director Marielle Heller, "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"
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Actor Kelvin Harrison Jr., "Waves"
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Writer, director and actor Taika Waititi, "Jojo Rabbit"
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Actors Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein, "Booksmart"
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Actor Jonathan Pryce, "The Two Popes"
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Actor Jonathan Majors, "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
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Cinematographer Roger Deakins, "1917"
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Directors Josh and Ben Safdie with actor Adam Sandler, "Uncut Gems"
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Actor Kevin Garnett, "Uncut Gems"
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Actress Elisabeth Moss, "Her Smell"
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Actress Julia Butters, "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood"
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Actor Noah Jupe, "Honey Boy" and "Ford v Ferrari"
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Actor Christopher Plummer, "Knives Out"
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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, "Knives Out"
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Actress Toni Collette, "Knives Out"
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Actress Jessie Buckley, "Wild Rose"
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Actors Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and writer-director-actor Edward Norton, "Motherless Brooklyn"
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Actress Lolo Spencer, "Give Me Liberty"
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Directors Mati Diop and Antoneta Kastrati
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Director Mati Diop, "Atlantics"
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Director Antoneta Kastrati, "Zana"
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Songwriter Diane Warren, "Breakthrough"
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Director Alex Holmes and sailor Tracy Edwards, "Maiden"
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Actor Stellan Skarsgård and director Hans Pettre Moland, "Out Stealing Horses"
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Director Václav Marhoul, "The Painted Bird"
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Actress María Valverde and director Andrés Wood, "Spider"
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Director Halina Reijn, "Instinct"
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Actor Edward James Olmos, writer Robert Mailer Anderson and director Michael D. Olmos, "Windows on the World"
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Antonio Banderas, Cynthia Erivo, Diane Warren and more are vying for Academy recognition this season
Actress Awkwafina, "The Farewell"
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