Kevin Bacon to Receive Broadcast Critics Award
Kevin Bacon, who appeared in films as varied as Footloose, Sleepers, and Mystic River, will be honored by the Broadcast Film Critics Association for his philanthropic work. Bacon, 51, will receive the Joel Siegel Award at the 2010 Critics’ Choice Awards ceremony next January 15.
Bacon is being particularly honored for his website SixDegrees.org, which asks visitors to contribute to their favorite causes. According to reports, since its launch three years ago the site has received nearly $3 million in donations. Its name is derived from the old "Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon" trivia game, in which players had to come up with a movie link between Bacon and someone else.
This year, Bacon is up for both a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for the television movie Taking Chance, in which he plays an officer accompanying home the body of soldier from Iraq.
Among Bacon’s other screen credits are Only When I Laugh, Lemon Sky, Flatliners, The River Wild, Apollo 13, The Woodsman, and Frost/Nixon.
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