Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the 2010 edition of the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) to be held January 5-18, 2010. Presented by Cartier, the Awards Gala will take place on Tuesday, January 5, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The ceremony will be hosted by Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart.
Past honorees of the Desert Palm Achievement Award include Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Penn, Jake Gyllenhaal, Liam Neeson, Nicolas Cage, John Travolta and James Stewart.
Oscar buzz seems to be a requirement for most of the award-giving at Southern California events taking place early in the year. Four-time Oscar nominee Bridges, who has just received a Spirit Award nomination for his broken-down country music singer in Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart, is a potential Oscar contender. Also in the Crazy Heart cast are Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell.
Believe it or not, Jeff Bridges, who turned 60 this past Dec. 4, has been around acting in movies for four decades. His Oscar nominations were for best supporting actor in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971), Michael Cimino's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), as a lead in Starman (1984), and back in the supporting category in The Contender (2000).
Among Bridges' other film credits are The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Open Road, Iron Man, Surf's Up, Seabiscuit, The Fisher King, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Blown Away, Fearless, The Big Lebowski, Against All Odds, The Vanishing, Texasville, The Morning After, The Last American Hero, and Heart of the West.
His father was actor Lloyd Bridges. His brother is actor Beau Bridges.